THE MARKETS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1727, 5 April 1905, Page 65

THE MARKETS.

Laery and Co., Limited, Jervois quay, report the following selling prices on the Wellington market: —Wheat, fowls’ 3s 6d to 3s 8d; feed oats, 2s Id to 2s 4d ; discoloured oats, Is lid. to 2s ; barley, 2s iOd >.O 3s; Cape barley, 3s; New Zealand flour, £lO 5s to £lO 10s; Adelaide, £lO 10s; bran, £4 to £4 10s; oatmeal, £lO 10s: pollard, £6 10s to £7; rolled oats (s’s), 9s Gd per dozen; oatsheaf clialf, 80s to 90s per ton ; straw, £2 10s to £2 15s; maize, 3s 7d to 3s be!; iresh eggs. Is 3d to Is Gd ; potatoes, sound 5s Gd to 7s per cwt; onions, 7s to 8s 6d; cabbages, Is to Is Gd; 3s Gd to 5s Gd ; lettuce, Gd to is Gd per case; cheese, factory 4?rd to 4:;d, loar size sd; butter, prime Bd, inferior Gd to 7d ; bacon, best factory 7d io 7 ; ,d, hams 7-Ul, rolls 7-.Vd per lb; split peas, 14s "■ : pearl barley, 14s Gd; bens, 3s to 3s Gd; roosters, heavy 3s Gd to 4s; ducks, 4s Gd to 5.v» Gd ; turkeys, bens Bis, gobblers 14s, all at per pair; ryegrass, 4s 3d to 5s per bushel; Prussian blue "{Seas, 4s Gd per bushel; swedes, 2s Gd ; mutton birds, in casks 5d ; fungus, 4d; oilcake, £G 10s; table carrots, 2s to 4s per sack; parsnips, 3s to 4s Gd; bone-dust, £7; cocksfoot, 3d to 4.pi ; white clover, 85s; cowgrass, 75:s ; swede and turnip seed, 55s to 62s Gd : peanuts, 2id per lb: superphosphate £4 15s per ton; rice meal, £6 per ton.

Harry Palmer and Co., Palmerston North, report a full entry in all departments, with ready sales. Meaner pigs are still the most difficult to quit, other classes realising lair values.

Weaners 4s to 7s Gd, slips and stores 8s Gd to 15s ; small porkers lGs to 20s, heavy weights 22s Gd to 27s ; ducks, 3s 3d to 4s lOd ; cockerels, prime 3s to 4s, half-grown Is Gd to 2s Gd; young bens, 3s Gd to 4s; pullets, 3s Gd to 5s Gd, a few purebred at fancy prices ; rhubarb, Gd per bundle; onions, Id to lid per lb; applies, Id to 2d per lb; windfalls, Is to 2s per case; potatoes, 6s to' 10s per cwt; bay, 3s per truss; pig-potatoes, 3s to 4s per sack; pears, 2d per !b; wheat. 4s Gd ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s Gd. IVe held a clearing sale on account of Mrs Larsen, but buyers were not eager, no feed being the general cry. Cows, £2 10s to £6 ss; 18-month, heifers, £3 lls; weaners, 6s to 235. Furniture and sundries realised good prices.

JOHN SONY ILL®. STOCK MARKET Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsolville sales on the 28th ult.. as follows :—A full entry of bullocks. light weights, and good quality, sold freely at last week’s rates. Beef made 18s Gd per 1091 b. Best bullocks. £7 7s Gd, others £7 to £7 2s Gd, light steers £6 10s to £6 7s Gd. There was a. good yarding of sheep. Prices were not equal to last sale. Best ewes 18s 3d, others 17s 9d, light 15s 9d; wethers, best 18s 7d to 19s, others 18s 3d and 17© lOd, light 16s 3d, crossbred 2-tooth 15s lOd, lambs 12s, stores lls 7d, breeding ewes 13s, store wethers 16s Id.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. SYDNEY, March 29. Wheat is nominally at 3s 3d; chick, medium, 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Flour, £8 ss; Manitoba, £l3 10. s. Oats, Tasmanian, 2s to 2s 4d; Victorian and Algerian, 2s. Maize, 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Barley, English, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; Cape, 2s 7d to 2s lOd. Bran, 9d. Pollard, Is. Peas, blue, 4s 3a. Potatoes, Tasmania, £5 15s to £6. Onions, Victorian, £ll. Butter, 9d to lou. Cheese, s£d to 6fd. Bacon, (kl to 7d. MELBOURNE, March 29. Wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 4d. Flour, £7 10s to £B. Oats, Algerian feeding, Is Gd to Is 8d ; stout white, 2s 2d to 2s sd. Barley, 3s 3d to 3s Bd. Maize, 2s 4d. Bran, lOd. Pollard, Is. Potatoes, £5 to £5 15s. Onions, prime, £lO. ADELAIDE, March 29. Wheat, 3s 4d. Flour, £B. Oats, Is lid to 2s. Bran and poilard, Is. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. At Addington to-day there was a large attendance, farmers particularly being numerously represented. The entries comprised 538 cattle, 22,378 sheep, 809 pigs. Fat cattle. —The entry consisted of 181 head, mostly steers of fair quality. The sale was the worst that has taken place at Addington for many years. Good to prime beef sold at 18s to 20s, a few head to 21s, and inferior sometimes -as low as 15s per 1001 b. Per head, steers sold at £6 to £9 15s,

heifers £5 to £7 2s Gd, cows £4 15s to £7. Fat calves sold at 6s to 455. Store cattle. —The yaxding was small, and of very indifferent quality, arid the demand, was very poor, recent values not being maintained. Yearlings sold at 18s to 2Gs, fifteen to eighteen months 35s to 50s, two-year-old heifers 55s to G2s Gd: a pen of four-year-old steers was passed at £6. Dry cows sold at 80s to 70s. Dairy cows.—There was a fair demand for springers and fresh young milkers at £G to £8 10s, but inferior and old stock were almost unsaleable, their prices ranging from £3 15s to £5. Fat sheep.—There was a good entry. The sale opened with a quiet tone, and before it had made much progress it became evident that a slump had arrived. Competition for wethers was extremely languid, and for ordinary ewes was nonexistent, with the consequence that wethers were on an average Is lower than at the previous sale, while ewes were 2s to 3s lower. A greater decline was marked towards the close of the sale, when it was difficult to get bids for ordinary grades of ewes, •which were neglected alike by butchers and by exporters. The prices current tvere as follows: —Wethers, good to prime, 20s 9d to 25s 3d; ewes, prime heavy, 20s to 23s Gd, medium to good lGs Gd to ids Gd, aged 14s to lGs; merino ewes, medium, lls Gd to 12s Id. Fat lambs.—About 3500 were penned, and the general quality tv as good. There was no change in values, but unfinished lots were rather difficult to sell. Prices ranged from 19s to 22s 8d for togs, 17s Gd to 18s Gd for lamb weights, and 15s Gd to 16s for small and unfinished descriptions. Store sheep and lambs.—The yards were again filled, the entries probably totalling IG.OOO. Farmers competed well for all descriptions, hut dealers gave little support to the sale. The demand For wethers was particularly keen, and forward lines made Is over the previous week’s values. For ewe© and lambs, previous rates were firmly maintained. The sale altogether was highly satisfactory to vendors, an almost complete clearance being effected. Wethers (four-tooth) made 21s to 22© Gd, two and four-tooth. 19s Id, twotooth 17s Gd to- 1 Q sd, backward lots lGs to 17s; ewes, four-tooth 20- to 21s 9d, two-tooth 18s lOd to 22s 9d. culls 16s to 17s, six and eight-tooth 19s to 20s 4d : sound mouth 18s 4d to 20s Bd, aged lGs Gd to 17s Gd, culls 13s Gd to 15s Gd.

Pig©.—There wore large entries of all classes of pigs, hut the sale was dull throughout, and prices were weaker all round. Prime baconers sold at 40s to 4Ss, or 4ld to '4id per. lb; heavyweights, 50s to 545, or 4d per lb; porkers, 30s to- 38s. or 5d per lb; stores, large 30. s to .36 s, medium 20s to 27s Gd, small 12© to 18s; weaners 6s 9d to 10s Gd. DUNEDIN. March 29. At Burnside markets 176 fat cattle were yarded, about half being wellfinished bullocks, and the proportion of heifers in good condition was above the average. The number was scarcely equal to requirement©, and there was an advance of 10s to 15s per head. Best bullocks £8 to £9 10s, extra heavy and prime £lO 2s Gd, medium to good £5 10s to £7 15s, best cows and heifers £6 to £7, light £3 to £5 "10s. Fat sheep.—Only 869 penned, mostly good wethers. In view of the small entry, the sale opened Is Gd above last week, and the advance was maintained. Wethers 22s Gd to- 24s Gd (one pen of extra heavy 255), good wethers 19© 6d to 21s Gd, medium and light 17s to 19s Gd, best ewes up to 23s Gd. Fat lambs. —935 penned. Bidding was keen, and prices were equal to last week’s. Best lamb© 16s to 17s 6d. medium 15s 3d to 16s, others 13s to 14s 9d.

Pigs.—B3 yarded. Prices were a shade in advance of those obtaining at last week’s sale, and the sale was brisk throughout. Suckers 9s to 14s, slips 15s to 18s, stores 19s to 235, porkers 23s 6d to 335. light baconers 34s to 395, heavy ditto 42s to 48s, choppers up to 58s 6d. CANTERBURY PRODUCE MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, March 30. The following quotations are for purchases from farmers, net cash, sacks exWheat.—Hunter’s 3s Id to 3s 2d, Tuscan and Pearl 3s 2d to 3s 3d, at country stations. Oats.— Canadian Is 8d to Is 9d, Duns Gar tons and Sparrowbills, prime heavy Is 8d to Is Bid, ordinary Is 7d to Is 7-id, Danish Is Gd to Is Old at country stations. . Barley. —New malting, good 4s to 4s 3d, medium 3s 6d to 3s 9d, inferior 3s to 3s 3d. at country stations. Flour.—The New Zealand Flour Jailers’ Co-operative Association, Limited, quotes the following prices, per ton, local or shipping: —Flour, sacks £9 10s, 1001 b bags £lO. 501 b bags £lO ss, 251 b bags £lO 10s, pollard £5. Oatmeal. —£10. Chaff. New oatshenf GOs at country stations. Ryegrass, farmers lines, good to superior, old pasture, 3s to 3s Gd, inferior to medium 2s to 2s 9cl. Italian 2b 6d to 8s *per bushel at Addington.

Cocksfoot, fair to bright 131 b seed 31 d to 3£d per lb, 141 b to 4d, light and discoloured 2'd to 31 per lb. Potatoes.—Prompt delivery £5 per ton at near stations. Onions. —£6 per ton at near stations. Dairv Produce.—Cheese, dairy 3’d to 4d, factory, large 4 l d to 4Vd, loaf 44di to 4|d.. Butter, fresh, local factory, lOid, farm separator 9d. salted in boxes 7d to Bd. Hams and bacon, local fao tory 7d to 74d. Fresh eggs Is 2d per! dozen. Honey.—Farmers’ strained 2£d, extracted 3p to 34d per lb ; sections, first grade, 5s per dozen.