DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2210, 9 July 1896, Page 15

DUNEDIN MARKETS. WHOLESALE PRODUCE REPORTS.

Mr J. Fleming, Princes street south, report 3 under date the 7th iust :— Wheat per bushel. per ton. Best milling 3/8-3/10 Oatmeal, in 25's 220/0 Medium do 3/4-3/6 Oaten chaff 50/0-57/6* Fowls' 2/10-3/1 Ryegrass hay ... 55/0 Milling oats 1/9-1/10 Straw ... 30/0-3<!/6 .Feed oats 1/7— l/8J Pearl barley ...250/0 Malt Barley 3/3—3/6 per cwt. Feed barley 2/0-2/3 Onions 8/6 Cape barley... 3/0 per lb. Maize 3/3-3/3 Rolled bacon ... 0/5& per ton. Side bacon ... 0/6 Flour ... 190/o—2oo/0 Smoked hams ... 0/7 Pollard 90/0 Cheese ... 0/3|-0/4 Bran 70/0 Good salt butter, Barley dust ... 70/0 7Jd to' 8d per lb, Oaten hay ... 60/0 according to quality. Kidney seed potatoes. £2 103 to £2 15s per ton. Seed oats, 2s 3d per bushel. Feed oats are offering freely. Swede turnips, 12a 6i per ton. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs Mercer Bros, report' paying for produce during the week ending the 7th inst. as follows :— Bacon (roll), 6d p. lb Fresh butter, lOd p. lb Hams,' 7d p. lb Salt butter, 8d p. lb Fresh eggs, Is 2d doz Fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and Jib prints), 7d to 8d p. lb.

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. Weekly Report.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows :—

At Saturday's sale there were very few buyers present and only a. small number of horses. The draught horses forward were for the most part aged and inferior sorts, and for these the demand was limited. Good, sound young draughts are in great demand and very scarce. Wo strongly recommend consignments of this class of horses, which we are confident would sell at-prices very satisfactory to vendors. Horees suitable for spring vans, expresses, Ac. are also scarce. Most or the horses of this description offered to-day were light; and inferior, and there was very little demand for them, the inquiry being confined chiefly to useful youug animal.'. Hacks and harness horses, with one or two exceptions, were poorly represented. Nearly all horses of this class offered were "weeds," and for these there was no demand. Strong, useful, upstanding harness horses are wanted, and had any of these been forthcoming they would have brought fair values. We quote : Heavy draughts, four to six years, £22 to £27 ; do eight to ten years, £15 to £20; light and snnll do, £8 to £12; aged and inferior do, £4 to £7; upstanding spring-cart" horseß, young and sound, £12 to £16 ; well-bred upstanding hacke and harness horses, £16 to £20 ; upstanding hacks and harness horses, £10 to £14 ; aged and inferior, £2 to £5.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report that prices ruled as under at their auction sale on Monday :—

Oat?.— We submitted a moderate catalogue of lots suitable to thn requirements of those buyers in attendance, and effected a clearance at prices on a par with those current during last week. £M&ai4 Sfieaiel iiues, is 8d to Ss* jpo«l to beg

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feed, Is B}d to Is 9d ; medium, Is 7Jd to 1b 8d per bushel (sacks extra). . x Wheat.— A moderate business is bfling done, and values are practically unchanged. Prime velvet, 3s 9d to 3s lid ; do Tuscan, &c, 3s 7d to 3s 9d ; medium, 3s 4d to 3i 6d ; fowl feed, 3s to 3a 2d par bushel (sacks in). , Potatoes;— Market fairly well supplied. Best Derwents, £2 153 to £2 17s 6d : medium, £2 10 ato £2 12s 6d ; kidneys, £2, 10s to £3 per ton (sacks id).

Chaff.— Supplies have been regular, and Values to-day ate : Best oatensheaf, £>, 15* to £2 17s Cdj medium to good, £2 10j to £2 12j M pec ton (baßs ex bra). Turnips.— Best Swedes, lla to 12s (loose) per ton.

The Mutual Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) repoit that prices ruled as under at their weekly auction sale on Monday :— Oat«.— The auction sales continue to be poorly attended, but as the market is weak this is not to be wondered at. and if prices began to improve we could find buyer* ensily enough. Meantime we aic only offering small lotß of medium and inferior fed, and under the hammer we sold at Is 71d to Is Bid. Prime line 3 are worth Is BJd to Is Qd, according to quality. Wh?at.— We sold fowls' feed at 3s. Market continues firm, but business is limited. Prime velvot is worth 3s lOd to 3s lid ; prime Tuscan, 3s 8d to 3a 9d ; and these prices can only be got for au occasional prime line. Barley.- We sold a small lot at 2s 2d. Market is lifeless, and only small lots for feeding aro obtainable.

Potatoes. -Wo sold at up to £3, but market seems to be well supplied through- other sources, und business is slow.

Ohaif.— Nouesold at auction. Prime is worth £215s to £2 17s 6d ; msdiura, £2 5s to £2 10s.

PROPERTY SALES.

Mr Nev:lle Sievwbight, auctioneer, High atrett, reports the tale by private contract of section 3. block XXXIII, Dunediu, fronting Melville lane, together with dwelling houge thereon, to a purchaser ; allotment 57, Fitzroy estate, fronting Brunswick street, to Mrs Gvimmitt at ft satisfactory price ; also fa;m of 200 Hcreß at Ohatton, being section 13, block V, together with buildings thereon, at a satisfactory figure to Mr J. B. Kirk. Mr W. A. Walton reports having submitted for sale by auction p,\rt section 39, block XXVI, Duntdin, having a frontage of 33ft to Cumberland street, together with brick dwelling housa of five rooms thevson. The bidding only reached £330, at which sum the property was passed in for private sale.

THE LABOUR MARKET.

Mr Skene reports under date Jul# 7 :— We cannot expect great briskuess now whilst the short dayp last— employers .natuially calculate tuafc it doesn't pay to increase their staffs when work cannot be done ; but wo shall so?n be into the spring und long days. Of course workers are impatient, but they must just "thole" it. Fortunately a goodly number havo laid by for a rainy day, and they can stand a siege. A limittd number of couples, ploughmen, lads, and boys and odd hands, r*bbiter3, &c, arc moving at wages of all sorts.