AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11045, 24 February 1898, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL.

, Sydney, February 23. Wheat: Chick, prime, 3s to 3s 3d; millm?, 4s to 4s 2d. Flour : Old, £11; new, £10 os to £10 10a. Oats : Prime feeding, 2s 6d ; medium, 2s 5d ; Tartarian seed, 2s Bd. Maize: Old, 2pi lid to 3s; new, 2s ild. Barley : (Jape, 2s 3d to 3s ld. Peas : Prussian blue, ss. Bran, 7d. Pollard, Bd. Butter : Dairy, 6d to 6Jd; factory, 7d to 7id. Cheese : Large, 4Jd ; loaf, 5Jd. Eicon, .6Jd to Bd. Potatoes : New Zealand early Rnsl, £7; lridneys, £6 ; Local, £3 10-s to £6. Onions: New Zealand, £6; Victorian, £5 10s to £5 16s. Melbourne, February 23. Wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 4Jd. -Oats : Algerian, Is 6d to Is fld ; Tartarian, ls lOd to 2s ld ; Danish, 2s to 2a OJd. Maize, 3s to 3s ld. Bran and pollard. lOjd. Barley : Malting, 5s toss Gd. Potatoes, £5 to £6 15s. Onions, £5 10s. Adelaide. February 23. Wheat, 4s 4d to 4s s^. Oats: New Zealand, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; local Algerian, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; dun, 2a to 2s 3d. Brau and pollard, ls. •» ;— ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. Christchurch, February 23. Fat Cattle.—Au entry of 217 head was beyond current requirements, aud prices were 5s to 10s a head lower, the best beef not exceeding 16s 6d per 1001b. Other descriptions descended to nominal prices. The fat sheep penned consisted almost entirely of ewes of ordinary quality, of which the supply, was far in excess of the demand. A very few wethers, fit for freezing, fetched about previous rates,, but-all-other descriptions must be quoted lower by Is for ordinary wethers and from ls 6d to 2s for ewes. Fat-Lambs.—There was active competition for freezers, some of which realised 6d to Is above previous sales' values. Best butchers' lots held their own, but half-fat and inferior sorts were neglected and a concession ef ls to 2s had to be submitted to. Best freezers brought 10a to lis 3d ; fair lines,-8s (3d to 9s 9d ; secondary and inferior, from ss. , V^igs.—The yarding was small and the demand keen.., Baconers brought up to 575, porkers to 40pi, and stores to 395. Prime baconers fetched fully 4d, and porkers 4d to 4Jd par lb. ;■" AUCKLAND WOOL SALES. Auckland, Februars 23. .The, third wool sale of the season was held to-day. There was a fair attendance'of buyers. The four firms interested submitted a combined catalogue of 700 bales (exclusive of a number of mixed packages), and of these 550 were sold by auction, while the.bulk of tbe remaining lots ware disposed of privately. Bidding was fair throughout and at times inclined to be brisk, while prices ruled firm, medium and inferior wools, if anything, showing a trifling advance, and lambs' wool improving from id to |d per lb. Messrs Hunter and Nolan and ihe Loan and Mercantile Company both obtained 7d per lb for lambs' wool, this being the top price of the day.