THE MARKETS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1747, 30 August 1905, Page 61

THE MARKETS

WELLINGTON PRODUCE MARKET. Laery and Co., Ltd., Jervoisquay, report the following wholesale prices ruling on the Wellington produce market during the past week: —Flour, £9 10s per ton; oatmeal, £ll per ton; rolled oat®, 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 Id; 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 per bushel; partridge peas, 4s 3d per bushel; split pea®, 15s per cwt; pearl barley, 15s per cwt; feed barley, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; pollard, £5 10s i o £6 per ton; bran, £4 10s to £5 per ton ; prime potatoes, £l2 per ton; onions, £l7 to £l9 per ton; swedes, 2s per cwt; pumpkins, 7s to 8s per sack; carrots, 35a per ton; cabbages, Is to 3s per sack; cauliflowers, 3s to 8s per sack; mutton birds, in kits 6d per Dird, in casks 4d • eggs, fresh, Is per dozen; factory bacon, sides 7d, roll 3 7£d; poultry, tui'keys (hens) 7s to’Bs per pair, gobblers 12s to 14s; hens, 3s 6d to 4s per pair; roosters, 4s to 5s per palir; ducks, 6s to-7s per pair; geese, 5s to 6s per pair; butter, bulk 9d to lOd, medium 7d to 8d per lb; cheese, besn factory 6d to 6|d per lb; 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, £5 15s per ton; crushed malt, 7s per bushel; horse beans, 6d, crushed 3s 9d; rice pollard, £sTasmanian seed Derwents £lO 10s, Circular Heads £lO 10s, sacks in. * JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. Abraham and Williams,. Ltd., report that at their Johsonville sale on the 22nd there was a full entry of bullocks, mostly of prime quality. Beef made up to 22s 6d, best bullocks £lO, others £9 to £9 17s 6d, and lighter sorts £8 to £8 17s 6d; There- was a fair yarding of sheep, including some very prime heavy ewes. , The market was much easier than last week. Prime ewes 26s 9d and 26s 6d, others 22s Id to 22s 8d ; best wethers 24s 9d; others 23s and 21s 9d. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, August 23. Wheat, chick, 3s to 3s 3d; milling, 3s Flour, <£B;- Manitoban, £l4. Oats, Tasmanian, white, 2s 7d to 2s lOd; .Algerian, 2s Id to 2s 3d. Barley, malting, 3s 9d to 4s. Maize. 3s 7d to 3s Bd. Bran lOd. Pollard, lid. Potatoes, Circular Heads, £lO to £ll. Onions, Victorian, £23; American and Japanese, £2O. Butter, lOd to llid. Bacon. 5d to 7d. MELBOURNE, August 23. Wheat, 3s 5d to 3s s£d. Flour, £7 10s to £B. Oats, Algerian feeding. Is 7d to Is 9d; Tartarian, seeding, 2s lOd to 3s. Barley, malting, 3s 9d to 4‘s 4d; Cape, to 3s. Maize, 3s 4d. Bran, 9£d. Pollard, lid. Potatoes, locals, to £9 10s; Tasmanian, £9 10s to £lO 10s. Onions, £22 to £23. ADELAIDE, August 23. Wheat, 3s sd. Flour, £7 10s to £7 15s. Bran, lOd. Pollard, lid. SOUTHERN STOCK SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, August 23. At the Addington sales there were moderate entries of stock in almost all departments, and only a fair attendance. There was an improved demand for beef, and prices were firmer. Fat hoggets sold well. The fat sheep sale was somewhat irregular, but prime sheep were very firm. The lines of store sheep offered met with a brisk sale. Fat pigs were dull of sale, but there was an improvement in stores. There was not much demand for store and dairy cattle. Store sheep—The yarding was rather larger than of late; there was good competition for all classes at following rates: 7d to 265, 128 at 255. 81 sound-mouth 19s Id, 159 aged 245, 73 ewe hoggets 17s lid, 105 wether hogget© 17s 6d, 177 at 17s Id, 40 shorn 18s sd, 310 mixed sexes 17s Bd, 170 at 17s, 60 at 17s 2d, 151 at 16s, 48 at 15s lOd, 57 at 15s 9d. Fat hoggets —Small entry, which sold firmly at late rates, ranging from 17s to 19s 7d.

Fat sheep—Moderate entry, made up principally of wethers, and including several lines of merinos. There were a few very prime lines of halfbred wethers, but the other lines were light sheep, and prices were consequently comparatively low, though the sale was somewhat irregular. Prune _ quality . was very firm at late rates. A little business was done by export buyers. A few pens of ewes offered sold well. Pi'ices—Prime wethers 24s to 27s 6d, medium 20s to 235; prime ewes 21s to 23s lid, medium 18s to 20s, aged 15s to 17s 6d; prime merino wethers 18s to 21s 9d, others 14s 6d to 17s 6d. Cattle The entry totalled 164 and quality was chiefly good to prime. Included in the yarding was a line of polled Angus steers from Otago. There was an improvement both in bidding and prices compared with late sales. For Mr W. J. Stooddart, Ashburton, a first prize steer and heifer sold at £l4 17s 6d and £9 10s respectively, and for Mr P. Iverach, Waiau, 10 steers at <£7 17s 6d to <£lo 12s 6d. Other steers brought £7 15s to ,£lO 12s 6d; heifers £5 2s 6d to £8 10s, and cows £6 2s 6d to £9, equal to 22s to 24s for prime, 19s 6d to 21s for medium, and 18s to 19s for cow and inferior per 1001 b. , A fair yarding of veal calves soid at 7© 6d to £2 17s 6d. „ . Store and dairy cattle—A larger entry of store cattle than there has been for some time consisted chiefiy of young

sorts in low condition. There was a poor demand. Prices: —Yearlings 23s to 2S&. 15 to 18 months 35s to 465, two-year-old steers £3 36, ditto heifers £3 Is; dairy cows 20s to £3 ss. Dairy cows were of moderate quality, the sale being dull, and prices ranging fr>m £4- to £8 10s. . Pigs—A fair entry. Fats met with rather a dull sale at easier rates, while. there was a very good demand for stores. Light baconers made 35s to 40s, heavier 41s to 45s and extra to 495, equal to 3Jd to 3|d per lb for porkers, 4d to 4£d per lb for medium to large stores; weaners brought 6s to 10s. DUNEDIN, August 23. At the Burnside market 210 fat cattle were yarded, mostly medium quality only a few pens being prime. Bidding was not brisk, especially for unfinished. Best bullocks £9 10s to £ll 7s 6d; medi-. um to good £7 15s to £8 17s 6d, light £5 2s 6d to £6 15s; best heifers £7 5a to £7 12s 6d; medium to good £5 17a 6<i to £6 15s, aged £4 5s to £5 10s. Fat sheep.—l 943 penned, ranging from medium to good. Prices all round hardly compared favourably with last week's rates. Best wethers 23s 6d to 26s (extra up to 27s 9d), good wethers 21s to 23a (others up to 20s), best ewes up to 22s 6d (one pen up to 24s 9d), others 16s to -20 s. Hoggets.—62 penned. Prices were the same as last week's. Best 17s to 19s (on® pen up .to 20® 9d), others up to 17s. Pigs.—lso penned. Suckers and slips met with a good demand. There were very few baconers or porkers forward. Suckers 7s to 10s, slips 11s to 15s, stores 16s to 20s, porkers 22s to 34®, light baconers 36s to 40s, heavy 42s to 465, choppers up to 50s. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, August 23. Wheat.—Millers are still buying from hand to mouth, and then only the very best. Medium has no demand except as fowl feed. The quantity placed on the market is limited. Prime milling 3s 2d to 3s 3d, medium, nominally 2s lid to 3s, inferior to medium 2s 9d to 2s lid, broken 2s 6d to 2® Bd, sacks extra. Oats are in fair demand, but buyers are not disposed to operate at any advance on late prices. Prime feed and milling Is 8d to Is B|d, good to best la 7£d to Is Bd, inferior and medium Is 5d to Is 6d, email lots for seed 2s to 2s Bd, sacks extra.