COMMERCIAL

Otago Witness, Issue 2516, 4 June 1902, Page 32

COMMERCIAL

The Customs" returns ten- the month, entered at Dunedin. were as follows: — Beer, ] £2027 3s 3d; and customs duties £25,293 ' lls 4d. The gold export totalled 22,4000z, valued at £91,713. For May of last year the Customs duty reached £23,400 2s Bd, and the beer duty £2155 19s 4d. AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. SYDNEY, May 2fi. "Wheat Chick. 4s to 4s 4Jd ; milling, 4s 6d, the Sydney equivalent being 4s 7d to 4s Bd. Country flour, £9 10s; Manitoba.ii, £12 10s. Oats- "Feeding — Tasmaman 3s 4d to 3s sd, Algerian 3a 8d to 3s 5d ; milling, 3s 6d. Barley : Cape, 4s 3d. Muizo, 4s 9d to 4s lOd. Peas • Prussian blue, 6s -9d to 7s. Bran and pollard, Is 3Jd. Potatoes. Tasmanians, £6 to £6 5?. , Onions* Victorian, £7 5s to £1 10s; New Zea- ; land, £6 10s to £7. Butter, Is 4d to Is oil. Bacon, 7d to 9d. MELBOURNE, May 28. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 4d. Flour, £9 10s to £10. Oats : Algerian, 3s Id to 3s 4d. Barley : Prime, 4s 9d. Maize, 4s 2d to 4s 4d. Bran, Is 2Jd. . Pollard, Is 3d to Is 3id. Potatoes, £4 to £5. Onions, £7 to £7 ss. ADELAIDE, May 28. Wheat, dull, to 4s Id. Port Adelaide flour, £S> as. Oats: Algerian, 2s 8d to 3s; short, 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Bran, Is 3d. Pollard, Is 3jd. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. CHRISTCHURCH, May 28. Fat Cattle. — 175 were brought forward, mostly heavyweights. The prices were th« bsuuc as last week, 19a to 245. Prime bullocks, £12 to £13 12s 6d ; good steers, £8 5s to £10 I 15s ; lighter, £6 to £8 ; heifers, £5 15s to £8 7s 6d , cows, £5 to £9. Fat Sheep. — About 5000 were yarded, mostly ewes, with a few lines of wethers of good quality. Competition was keen throughout, and anything fit to freeze rose la per head. Fieezing wethers, 16s 3d lo 19s 6d ; heavyweights, 19s lid to 20s sd; light and unfinished, 14s to 16s 3d ; crossbred ewes, best 12s to 17s 6d, medium lls to 12s; inferior, 83 to 103; > mo9t of the best ewes were taken for export. i 1 at Lambs. — Of these there were about 1200, including many inferior lots. There was good competition for well-finished lots. Freezers, lls 4d to 13s 6d; tegs, 13s lid to 14s 4d; unfinished, 7s 3d to 10s 6d. Store Sheep. — 5500 were brought forward, including some good lines of wethers. The competition for all sorts was irregular, and the fact that the buyers were not keen made matters easier, and several lines were passed in. , Forward wethers, 10s 9d to 12s lOd ; backward, 8s to 9s; good sound ewes, 9s 4d to 9s 6d; aged sortß, 4s; good lambs, 6s 5d to 8s 7d, down to 2s for culls. Pigs. — About 400 were penned, including a fair entry of fats, but stores were poorly represented. Baconers, 33s to 455, up to 52s 6d for extra heavy, or 31d to 3Jd per "lb ; porkers, 20s to 30s, or 32cl ••>er lb; stores, 14s to 20s; , smaller, 5s to 12s.