THE MARKETS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1756, 1 November 1905, Page 60

THE MARKETS

Dalgety and Co., Masterton, report the following private sales of stock: —Account of McMaster’s. trustees, Matawhera estate, a yearling shorthorn bull (second prize-taker at Hastings show) at a figure exceeding .£IOO. The bull was sold to a Gisborne breeder. On account of same estate 100 Lincoln rams at a very satisfactory figure. Also on account of Williams and Beetham, the whole of their stud flock of Shropshire ewes, (with 100 per cent, of lambs at foot), ewes hoggets, and ram hoggets. The sale was effected to a Canterbury breeder, and the flock will be going from this district. The price paid for the flock was a satisfactory one to the vendors. Laery and Co., Ltd., Jervois r.'-n-- - port the following ivholesale prices Tilling on the Wellington produce market during last week: Flour, £lO per ton, oatmeal. £ll 15s to £l2 per ton; rolled oats, 9s per dozen; prime oatensheaf chaff, 87s 6d to 955; feed oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d per bushel; seed oats, 2s 8d to 3s per bushel; dun oats, 2s 9d per bushel; whole fowl wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 7d; split peas, 15s per cwt.; pearl barley, 15s per cwt.; feed barley, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; Cape barley, 3s 3d; pollard, £5 10s to £5 15s per ton; bran £4 10s to £5 per ton; prime potatoes, £l2 to £l3 per ton; American Burbank potatoes, £l3 to £l4 per ton; onions, £lB to £l9 per ton; swedes, 2s 6d per cwt.; pumpkins. 8s to 10s per sack; carrots, table. 2s 6d per cwt.; cabbages, 5s 6d to 7s 6d; cauliflowers, 10s to 13s, inferior 3s to 7s; mutton birds, in casks, 4d; eggs, fresh 10£d to lid per dozen; factory bacon, sides 7d, rolls poultry, turkeys (hens). 7s to 8s per pair, gobblers 9s to 12s; hens. 3s 6d to 4s per pair; roosters, 4s to 5s per pair; ducks 5s 6d to 6s 6d per pair; butter, bulk 9d to lOd, medium 7d to 8d per lb; cheese, best factory sfd to 6d per lb; fungus, 4d per lb; peanuts, 2d to 3d per lb; honey in bulk, 4d per lb; walnuts, 6d to 6£d per lb; blue peas, 4s 3d per bushel; crushed malt, 7s per bushel; horse beans, crushed 3s 9d: rice pollard, £4 10s; guano, 80s; superphosphate®, £4 15s; bonedust, £5 ss. STOCK SALE. Abraham and Williams, Ltd., report on their Johnsonville sale as follows. A full entry of bullocks. A few pens were prime; the bulk were roughei* sorts. Bidding was slow at the start, but improved as the sale went on. The prime beef was up to 235, the other 225. Best bullocks £9 17s 6d, others £9 to £9 15s and £8 5s to £8 17s 6d; light steers £7 15s. A good yarding of sheep, including some prime ewes. The market was easier than last week. Best ewes 245, others 20s lOd; best wethers 24s Id, shorn wethers 16s and 18s. GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT. Dalgety and Co., report, under date Dunedin, October 23rd:— . Oats. —There is a good inquiry, hut tlie, business passing is small, owing to the

limited quantity offering, and the greater proportion of stocks now in store will be required locally for feed and milling purposes. The market is firm at quotations, and the probability is that unless heavier consignments come forward from the country an advance on present values may be looked for. Prime nulling, 2s to 2s Oid; good to best feed, Is lid to 2s; inferior to medium, Is 9d to Is 10id per bushel, sacks extra. , Wheat. During the past week there has been a good demand for prime lines of Velvet and Tuscan. Millers, however, are not disposed to purchase at prices on advance of late rates, while a good many holders ask from Id to 2d per bushel more. Medium quality is still without attention from millers. Fowl wheat has a fair sale in small lots for local consumption. Shipping orders, however, can still be fulfilled to better advantage at northern ports. Prime milling, 3s 2d to 3is 4d; medium, 3s Id to 3s 2d; whole fowl wheat, 2s lid to 3s; broken and damaged, 2s 8d to 2s lOd per bushel, sacks Potatoes. Consignments during'the past week have been small. Prime Derwents are most in demand, and these show an advance in value of from 10s to 15s per ton on prices ruling a week ago. White sorts are not so much in favour, but, in sympathy with Derwents, have also gpne up in value. Best Derwents, £ll to £ll 10s; choice, £ll 15s; medium, £lO 10s to £lO- 15s; white sorts,, £lO to £ll per ton, bags in. Chaff. The market is not by any means well supplied at present. Prime oatensheaf is iri demand, and readily quitted ex truck at quotations. Medium chaff, in the absence of prime quality, has lately had more attention from buyers. Prime oatensheaf, £3 10s to <£3 15s; extra choice to £3 17s 6d : medium, £3 to £3 7s 6d per ton, bags extra. Straw. The market is bare of supplies. Best wheaten would readily sell to-day at 355, and best oaten at 40s per ton, pressed. AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKETS. SYDNEY, October 25. Wheat, chick. 3s 2d to 3s sd; milling, 3s 6d. Flour. £8 5s to £8 10s. Oats, Tasmanian white feeding, 2s lOd; New Zealand Gartons. 3s Id to 3s 2d; B grade, 2s lid to 3s. Barley, - English, 2s lid to 3s Id; malting, 3s 9d to 4s. Maize, 4s 2d to 4s 3d. Bran, lid. Pollard, Is 2d. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £9 10s. Onions, San Francisco, £22. Butter, lid. Cheese. 6d to 7d. Bacon, 53pd to 7d. MELBOURNE. October 25. Wheat, 3s 6d. Flour, £7 15s. Oats, Algerian feeding, Is lid to 2s Id ; milling*

2s 2d. Barley, medium malting, 3s to 3a 4d. Maize. 3s lid. Potatoes, £8 5s t® £8 10s. ADELAIDE, October 25. Wheat, 3s 7d; the market is quiet. Flour, £8 to £8 ss. Bran, Is. Pollard, Is 3d. Onions, new, £l6. SALES. CHRISTCHURCH, October 25. At Addington market to-day there wer® small entries of stock in all departments except fat cattle and pigs and a good attendance. There was an improvement in beef. Fat lambs sold well as did the few store sheep that were offered. Fat sheep were firm, but pigs, except porkers, and store and dairy cattle, were dull of sale. There were only between 500 and 600 store sheep offered,- mostly ewes, and lambs, and they met with rather better sale. One hundred and aged ewes and lambs made 11s; 200 sold at 9s 9d (all counted); 61 wethers at 20s lid; 70 hoggets at 20s. Fat lambs. —There were 100 fat lambs penned, of which the greater proportion were of prime quality, and they sold readily under keen competition from butchers, best sorts making 19s to 225, and others 14s to 18s. The yarding of fat sheep was a moderate one in numbers, and prime sorts sold firmly, especially show sheep, _ but the demand was slack. For unfinished lots the range of prices was: —Prime woolly wethers 24s to 27s 6d others 20s to 23s 6d; prime shorn wethers 19s to 21s lid, others 15s 7d to 18s; woolly ewes 20s to 23s 6d. shorn ewes 15s 7d to 255; merino wethers 17s lOd to 19s sd. Fat cattle. —There were 223 fat cattle penned, including a North Island consignment.. Bidding was slack at the opening, but afterwards improved, and prices closed rather firmer than at the last sale. Fourteen steers from Mrs S. Lemon (Dojdeston) made £7 15s to £ll 2s 6d; 21 steers from the North Island £9 17s 6d to £lO 10s; 9 from Mr Edwards (Kaiapoi) £9 ss. Other steers brought £6 to £ll 17s 6d; heifers £5 10s to £9 ss; cows £5 5s to £9 ss, equal to 24s to 26s for prime extra to *27s 6d, and cow and inferior to 20s to 23s per 1001 b. There was a large yarding of veal calves, a large proportion being poor and small. They sold at 7s 6d to £2 15s. Store and dairy cattle. —There was alarge entry of store cattle, mostly in backward condition, and there was practically no demand, and few changed hands at auction. Yearlings sold at 13s to 18s, 15 to 18-months 30s to 47s 6d, two-year steers 62s 6d to 77s 6d, two-year heifers 55s to 565. two and a half-year steers passed at 77s 6d, forward threeyear steers passed at £6, three-year heifers 60s 6d to 71s, backward three and four-year steers passed at 955, dry cows 30s to 40s 6d. There was a poor entry of dairy cows, and they met with dull sale at low prices. Pig 3 —There was a very large yarding of pigs, especially of baooners and stores, and both these classes were easier. Porkers sold very well. Large baconers made 45s to 48s, including a line of 18 prime Berkshires from Canterbury Agricultural College at 46s 6d to 48s, lighter 35s to 425, equal to 3£d to 3-£d per lb; porkers 20s to 325, equal to 4d to 4fd per lb; large stores 15s to 20s, medium 10s 6d to 14s 6d,'suckers 3s to 9s.

DUNEDIN, October 25. At Burnside market 183 fat cattle were yarded the greater part prime to good quality bullocks. Prices improved as the sale went on, and were about 10s per head higher than at last week’s sale. Extra heavy bullocks <£ll 17s 6d, prime ,£9 15s to £lO 17s 6d, medium £8 to £9 5s best cows and heifers £7 5s to £9, medium £5 10s to £6 15s, light £4 10s to £5 5s * Eat sheep.—ls 27 penned, principally good quality wethers. The sale opened, at about last week’s rates. The market, however, hardened at the close. Prices were about Is in advance of last week. Best wethers 25s 6d to 27s 6d, extra up to 28s 6d, good wethers 23s to 255, others to 225. There were only a few pens of ewes, and the top price realised was 24s 3d. Eat lambs—6o head yarded. Best from 16s 6d to 18s, medium 14s 6d to 15s 6d. Pigs—l 36 yarded, mostly suckers and slips. The demand was only fair, and prices were a little easier. Porkers -and baconers sold at late rates; suckers 6a 6d to 10s, slips Us to 16s. stores 18s to 22s porkers 23s to 345, light baconers 36s to 40s, heavy 41s to 465, choppers up to 525. OTAGO GRAIN MARKET. DUNEDIN, October 25. Wheat—Prime milling is the only class in favour with preference' for choice lines from Central Otago. Prime milling 3s 3d to 3s 4d, medium to good 3s Id to 3s 2d, whole fowl wheat 2s lid to 3s, broken 2s *Bd to 2s lOd. sacks extra. Oats—Stocks held locally are exceedingly small, and are not being maintained by fresh consignments. There _is steady local demand, in face of which shippers have difficulty in securing requirements. Prime milling 2s to 2s o£d, good to best feed Is lid to 2s, medium and inferior Is 9d to Is 10£d, sacks extra.