COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10043, 11 January 1909, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

HOME MARKETS,

(Pun PttEss Association.)

Wellington, January 11. Tho High Commissioner cable* .'—Mutton market quiet j New Zealand brands in small supply. Quotations: canterbury 3|d, North Island 3sd. Dull sale for all lamb. Canterbury is quoted at 5 0 d, oltlfir thali CuHterbufy 4|d per lb, Australian lamb is of very mixed quality ami In quoted at 4d to 4jd. licet market is qui'f but steady, current being: hindquarters 34d, foroquuriers 3d. Tho butter market ia firm with more enquiry; The stock of New Zealand butter is almost exhausted. Trices are nominal, Buyers are anxious to uncertain as booh a» possible tho condition of tho I'aparoa'i shipment. Quotations: Choicest New Zooland Ills, Australian 109s, Danish 116s, Siberian 103 h per cwt. Cheese market firm. Tho supplies of Nov? Zealand tnaki* aro ritilmrig short, aiiti lli<!y nrfc qtloli'il, nominally, at 60s for, while, und old f<rr colored, per cwt. Tho hemp market is quiet, and small business is doing. Current quotatioiis: Good fair grade, on spot, £26; fair grade, on spot* £23; fair cur. rent Manila, on spot, £24 10s; January to March shipments, good fair grade, £24 10s; fair grade, £23 10s; fair current Manila, £24 10s. hast week's Manila output amounted to 17,000 bales. Tho (dock of New Zealand hemp held in London amounts to 239 tons. Tho wool market, in firm, and prices continue to advance. Current quotations: Bradford tops, 367t, low crossbrods, llj,d; 40'r, low crossbreds, Is; 44's, medium crossbrods. Is Id ; 60a, halfbreds, Is 6i}d ; bclis, monnos, Is ll^tl.

DUNEDIN MARKETS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) By Telograph. Dunedin, Jnmuary 11, Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report: -* Oats.—Prime milling, Is to Is 8d | good to best feed, Is 6Jd to Is 7d; others, Is 4d to Is 5Jd. Wheat.—Primo milling, 4s 6Jd to Is 74d; medium and best wholo fowl wheat, 4s 5d to 4s 6d; medium fowl whoat, 4« to 4s 4d'; others, 3s to 3s 9d, Potatoes.—No old potatoes, tho mason being over. JCarly sorts, £6 to £B. Chaff.-—Prime on tun ahoaf, £3 16s to £4; medium, £3 to £3 10s; others, £2 6s to £2 15s. Straw.—Oaten and whoaton, 157b 6d to 40s.

CLEANING SALE. Guinness and LeCren, Ltd., report holding tlio most successful clearing salo that litis been hold in tho Pleasant Point district for noma years past, Well Park Homestead, Pleasant Point, on Friday, on account of Mr Robert J. M'Kcown (who has sold his Homestead farm). Thoro wjm a very largo attendance of farmers, aluo buyers from Ashburton, Fuirlio, Geraldine, St. Andrews, Waimnto, Oamaru, (.Hekaiko, and Duntroon. Owing to the wellknown excellence of Mr M'lvoown's livo stock and farming plant, and every lot coining forward in firnt-clofa order, and for absolute sale, spirited bidding, and high prices were the order of (bo day The following oro some of the principal items:—

.Sheep.—7l7 6, 8 and f.m. three-quarter-bred ewes and lambs, lis Id, 505 at 10s Bd, 512 at 10s 6d, 380 *t lis 6d, 150 nt lis 4d; 78 2, 4, 6. 8, and f.m. throequarterbred ewes and lambs at 10s l.Od ; fat ewos at 10s 9d; fat wctherß at 14s 6tl; 13 three-shear Border Leiccstcrs at ljgn, eight at lgn ; 5 English Leicester rams at ign; 650 2-tooth threo-quarturbred owes at 15s 3d.

Draught Horses.—Bay maro, Nell, £45 ; chestnut mare, Pride, £37; bay gelding, Prince, £SO: bay gelding, £45 10a; hay maro, Sally, £4l ; bay marc. Carry, £3B 10s; bay gelding, Lion, £26; buy maro, Lill, £25 10s; bay maro, Bell, £3l; bay mare, Rose, £44; bay mnro, Dinah, £47; chestnut mare, Jip (with foal at foot), £18; chestnut, mare, Blossom, £2O; grey maro, Dolly, £l7 10s; bay gelding, Billy, £10; draught gelding, Charlie,

Unbroken Draughts.—Gcldinm, £ls, £l6; fillies, £l9, £2O, £33. Yearling Draughts.—Fillies, £l4, £lO. £lO 10k; gelding, £l2 10s; spring-curt mare, Lottie, £l4; black gig mare, Mi<« Flighty, £l3 10b; hackney filly, by Tlio Grafter, £lO 10k. j Dairy cows, £7 to £7 10s; shorthorn bull, £2 6s. Pigs.—Baconcrs, 25s to 27b 6d. Fowls, 3s per pair. Geese, 3s 10d per pair. Ducks, 3« per pair. '■ M.H. Binders, £lO to £l6. Drills, £l3 10s to £26. Broadcaster, £l3. Boring machine, £4 Ss. Winnowor, £3. Diws, £3 10s to £3 15s. Scoop, £3 ss. Saw bench, £9 10s. Sheep feeders, £1 2s 6(1, £1 10s, £1 15s. Grass stripper, £6. Bidgcr, £6. Cultivators, £7 10 a and £6. Tin dray, £4 10s. Farm drays, £l6 to £l7. £l°"Bhs, £5 to £7 10s. Tine harrows, £3 to £4. Boiler, £B. Waggon, £9. Woo' Press, £lO 10s. FairhanK's seal-*, ±4 2h 6d. Gnrton oats, lis 3d per suck. Straw chaff, Is 3d per bag. Oat Sheaf Chaff, 2s 8d per bag. Harness, tools, furniture, and sundries realised full market value. t 0 '£ At ? T '" s was in tho hnmlK of Mr J. H. Kodger, of Timaru, and kuvc every satisfaction.