THE MARKETS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1746, 23 August 1905, Page 60

THE MARKETS

Laery and Ck>., Ltd., Jervois quay, report the following wholesale prices ruling on tre Wellington produce market during the past week:—Flour, £9 10s per ton; oatmeal, <£ll per ton; rolled oats, 9s to 9s 6d per dozen; prime oatensheaf chaff, 87s 6d to 955; straw chaff, 60s per ton; feed oats, 2s 3d to 2s 5d per bushel; seed oats, 2s 5d to 2s 9d per bushel; Algerian 3s 3d; dun oats, 2s 6d per bushel; whole fowl wheat, 3s 4d to 3s 6d per bushel; broken 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; maize, 4s Eer bushel; partridge peas, 4s 3d per ushel; split peas, 15s per cwt; pearl barley, 15s per cwt; feed barley, 3s per bushel; pollard, <£6 per ton; bran. £4 10s to £5 per ton; prime potatoes, <£9 to ■£9 10s per ton; onions, <£l7 to <£l9 per ton; swedes, 2s per cwt; pumpkins. 7s to 8s per sack; carrots, 35s per ton; cabbages, Is to 2s 6d per sack; cauliflowers, 6s to 10s per sack; mutton birds, in kits, 6d per bird, in casks 4d; eggs, fresh Is Id to Is 2d per doz; factory bacon, sides 7d. rolls 7§d; poultry, turkeys (hens) 7s to 8s pair, gobblers 12s to 14s; hens, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; roosters, 4s to> 5s per pair; ducks, 6s to 7s per pair; geese, 5s to 6s per pair; butter, bulk 9d to lOd, medium 7d to 8d ger lb; cheese, best factory 6d to 6fd per ); fungus, 4d per lb; peanuts 2d to 3d per lb; honey in bulk, 4d per lb; walnuts, 6d per lb; blue peas, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel; pigmeal, <£s 15s per ton; crushed malt, 7s per bushel; horsebeans 3s 6d. crushed 3s 9d; early seed potatoes, <£B to <£9 10s; rice pollard, <£s; Tasmanian seed Derwents, £8 10s, sacks in. JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. Abraham and Williams. Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale on the 15th inst. as follows: —A full entry of bullocks of -prime quality gold freely. Beef made 22s per 1001 b. Best bullocks £lO, others £9 5s to £9 15s lighter sorts £8 12s 6d to £9. There was a good yarding of sheep, including a line of prime ewef. Bidding was keen, and the market higher than last week. . Ewes 24s 5d to 26s 9d, best wethers 26s 9d, others 21s lid to 24s lid. AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS. RETURNS FOR JULY. According to the Agricultural Department’s leaflet, the exports of agricultural products for July were as follows (the figures for July of last year being given in parentheses).— Butter, 1775 cwt, value £8523 (1483 cwt, £6694); cheese, 267 cwt, £712 (1070ewt, £2056); beef, 25,258 cwt, £30,115 (20,505 cwt, £26.751); mutton, 70,861 cwt, £105,945 (82,029 c wt, £114,431); lamb, 72,644 cwt. £142,672 (43,336 cwt. £75,958); wheat, 191,772 cwt. £27,729 (114,122 cwt, £16,997); oats, 85,263 bushels, £7407 (282,387 cwt, £22,703); potatoes, 32 tons, £246 (889 tons, £1976); hemp, 2085 tons, £47,992. Comparing the months in those products, for which the figures are available, the result is as follows: — July, 1905 £323,349 July. 1904 ... 267,566 Increase £55,783 The four-monthly periods of 1905 falls some distance short of the same period of 1904. The ports that headed the list in the different products for July were as follows: —Butter, Dunedin, 825 cwt, £3940; cheese, Dunedin, 128 cwt, £322; beef, New Plymouth, 10,763 cwt, £15,069; mutton, Lyttelton, 29,078 cwt, £48.412; lamb, .Lyttelton, 25,043 cwt, £52,589 (and Timaru, 21,432ewt, £40,803); wheat, Lyttelton. 101,426 bushels. £14,515; oats, Bluff, 54,950 bushels, £4724; potatoes, Auckland, 24 tons, £191; hemp, Auckland, 874 tons, £18.945. SYDNEY WOOL SALES. SYDNEY, August 16. The second series of wool sales opened to-day. Generally speaking, late rates were maintained, but business was not brisk. ' ♦. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, August 16. Wheat. —The market is steady, and all offering can be placed at quotations. Prime Central Otago Tuscan seed 3s 6d, prime milling 3s 3d, medium 2s 10d to 3s. sacks extra. Oats. —Consignments continue light, and are mostly sold on trucks to go into store. Seed lots Is lOd to 2s 3d, according to kind and quality, prime milling Is B£d to Is 9d, best feed Is 8d to Is B£d, inferior Is 6d to Is 7d. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, August 16. At Addington yards there was not a large entry of stock, but the quality of some of the fat cattle and sheep was exceptionally good. There were several prime lines of both from Amuri stations. The attendance was large. Beef sold at rates equal to last weeks, and though fat sheep, except special lines, opened rather lower, they improved towards the close of the sales. Fat lambs and fat hoggets sold very well, and there was keen demand for store sheep, young breeding ewes especially. Porkers showed an advance in price, and stores sold very well, but there were no buyers for baconers. In store and dairy cattle there was but little business done. Store sheep—The yarding was made up principally of ewes in lamb, with a few pens of wethers and hoggets. There was dAiuAtiH for »il ] clajufia. esmecialLv

young ewes, and prices were exceptionally good. The principal lots sold were 481 four and six-tooth crossbred ewes 26s 2d, 91 two and four-tooth 24s 4d, 173 eight-tooth 23s Id, 257 sound-mouth 235, 150 at 20s Id to 20s 9d, 55 aged dry ewes 10s 4d, 68 wethers 20s 6d, 46 at 20s, 67 hoggets 15s 7d to 17s lOd, 161 at 16s Bd. Fat lambs —About a dozen new season’s fat lambs penned, and they sold at 15s to 19s 6d, and one extra at 275. Fat hoggets—Only a small entry, over half of the number being comprised in one line from Cheviot. They sold fully up to late rates, some of the smaller lots being not well finished. The chief sales were 13 at 25s 325 at 19s lid, 21 at 18s, 70 at 16g 9d to 17s lOd, 17 at 16s lOd, 19 at 15s. Fat sheep—The supply was a moderate one in point of numbers, but included some extra prime lines of half-bred and merino wethers. The sale did not 'Open quite up to the previous week’s rates, butchers’ requirements evidently not being so large. Towards the close of the sale, however, there was improvement, and prices fully recovered. The range of prices was: —Extra prime wethers 28s to 30s 3d, prime 24s to 27s 6d, lighter 21s to 235; extra prime ewes 22s 6d to 265, good to prime 19s to 21s 9d, aged 16s to 18s; extra prime merino wethers 23s 6d to 295, prime 18s 6d to 21s 2d, others 13s 6d bo 17s 2d. Fat cattle—The number penned totalled 154, and a proportion of the yarding was of prime quality. There was a fair demand, and practically no change in values. For J. H. Davison (St. Leonard’s) one steer sold a £tl4; for D. Rutherford) (Leslie Hills) 8 steers at £lO 12s 6d to £l2 10s; 6 heifers £8 2ls 6d to £9 7s6d; for Bealey Bros. (Hororata), 4 steers £8 15s to £l3 15s, 2 heifers £8 7s 6d to £8 15s; others made £6l7s6d to £lO 10s, heifers £5 5s to £8 7s 6d, cows £4 10s to £7 10s, equal to 22s to 2,3 s for prime, 19s 6d to 21s for medium, and 17s 6d to 19s for cow and inferior per 1001 b. A fair entry cf veal calves sold at 7s 6d to 555. Store dairy cattle—Practically no entry of store cattle. A small yarding of dairy cows met with an irregular sale, the beet price being £7 15s. Pigs—Only a few bacon pigs and no demand for them. Porkers were firmer, and there was a very good sale for ©tores. Porkers sold at 28s to 365, smaller 22s to 27s 6d, equal to to 5d per lb. A line of 35 rough pigs from the Chatham Islands made 30s to 40s for fats and 15s to 30s for stores. One hundred store pigs from Cheviot made 18s to 235, other medium stores sold at 12s to 18s, weaners 9s to 11s. DUNEDIN, August 16. At Burnside market, 162 fat cattle were yarded. There was not a great deal of prime beef forward, but wliat there was was in brisk demand. Medium to good beef gold well. Best bullocks brought from £9 5s to £lO 2s 6d; one prime animal realised £lO 12s 6d; good bullocks from £8 10s to £9 2s 6d. Fat sheep—ls6B penned. Prices for good were firm at an advance of Is. Best wethers 24s to 28s 3d (one pen up to 295), good wethers 21s to 23s 6d, others up to 20s; best ewes 19s to 21s 9d, others up to 18s. Hoggets—2l9 penned. These sold practically at last week’s rates: 16s to 18s, one pen 19s 9d. Pigs—ll 7 yarded. Suckers and slip© were mostly of poor quality, but as there was fair demand prices remained about the same. Porkers were firm, but the sale for baconers was dull. Suckers 8s to 13s, slips 14s to 18s, stores 19s to 235, porkers 24s to 30s, light baconers 31s to 365, heavy 38s to 435, choppers up to 50s.