AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. SYDNEY, May 3.

Otago Witness, Issue 2358, 4 May 1899, Page 30

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. SYDNEY, May 3.

Wheat : Chick, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; milling, 2s 8d to 2s lOd. Flour, £6 10s to £6 15s ; Manitoban, £9 15s. Oats: New Zealand feeding, Is 7d to Is 9d ; Tartarian seeding, 2s to 2s 3d. Barley : Cape, 2s Gd; Chevalier, 5s 3d to 5s 6d. Maize: Prime, 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Peas: Prussian blue, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Bran, BJd. Pollard, 9d. Potatoes: Circular Heads and New Zealand Derwents, £2 5s to £2 10s. Onions: Victorian, £2 15s; New Zealand, £3. Butter: Dairy, lOd to lOSd; factory, lid. Chee3e: Large, sd; loaf, s£d to 6d. Bacon. 6d to BJd- Hams: New Zealand, mild cured, 9Jd. MELBOURNE, May 3. Wheat, 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Oats: Algerian, Is 4d to Is 8d; Tartarian, Is 3d to Is 10?; d. Barley": Cape, 2s Id; English feed, 2s 4d. Maize, 2s 9d to 2s lid. Bran, Bd. Pollard, BJd. Potatoes, £2 to £2 2s 6d. Onions, £2 5s to £2 10a ADELAIDE, May 3. Wheat, 2s 7d to 2s 9d. Flour, £6 10s. Oats : Dun and Algerian, Is 6d to Is 8d; stout, 2s to 2s 6d. Bra-n and pollard, 9d. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. (Per United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 3. The entries at Addington to-day comprised 13,841 sheep and lambs, 373 cattle, 636 pigs. Business had a satisfactory tone.

Fat Cattle.— Steers brought £5 to £6 17s 6d; heifers, £i to £0 17s 6d ; cows, £3 17s 6d to £G 12s 6d, the latter price being for exceptionally good animals. Best beef averaged 17s to 18s per 1001b ; other sorts, 12s to 16s.

Fait Sh&ep. — The entry was large. The supply of freezing sheep being good, prices all round slfowed an advance. Freezers brought 16s to 18s 8d; best ewes, 11s to 13s 6d and up to 16s 3d for extra prime lots ; merino wethers, 13d Bd. Fat Lambs. — Competition was keen, best lots bringing 15s to 15s 7d; ordinary freezers, 11s 6d to 14s 6d; trade lambs, 9s to 11s. Store Sheep. — The bulk of store sheep came from the North Island, Blenheim, and Nelson, business being brisk. Best wethers brought 13s to 14s 6d, a line of nearly fat 15s lOd; other wethers, 11s to 12s 9d; sound mouth breeding ewes, 10s to 12s; backward ewes and culls, 6s to 9s; best lambs, 9s to 11s 3d; culls, 6s to 8s 6d.

Pigs were in good supply, and prices were a shade easier. Bacons, 44s to 555; porkers, 30s to 40s; stores, 20s to 34s 6d; weaners, 14s Cd to 18s ; suckers, 63 to 12s. A line of 70 North Island stores brought 18s 6d to 345 ; baconers brought 4d per lb; porkers, 3Jd to 4?d.