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Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 23

South Australian February and March ulupxnent at 30s lid. The American visible wheat •supply is 79.402,000 bushels. 'The wheat markets are firm owing to humours of the possible partial prohibition ©f Russian exports, because of the famine. Nineteen thousand quarters of New South Wales wheat (January shipment) have been sold at 30s l£d, and a cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 30s 2d. • Hour is hardening, and all sorts are from 6d to 9d dearer. Australian flour is selling in Glasgow at 22s 6d ex store. Freights are steady. Fixtures have been made for South Australian flour from 24s to 255; New South Wales (prompt), 24s to 24s 6d. Butter: There is a good trade, but prices are slightly easier. Choicest Australian, 98s, and occasionally 100s ; secondaries, 88s to 965, the quality being variable, some showing fehiness. Danish is unchanged. New Zealand, 100s to 102s. The Bradford wool market is unchanged. Merinos are hardening, but crossbreds have a weaker tendency. At the London sheepskin sales 4400 were offered and sold. Greasy merino combings ■were from par to £d dearer; fine crossbreds, -Jd to id dearer ; coarse halfbreds, Id to Jd dearer ; lambs, Id dearer. Shorn •skins were £d cheaper. , - " February 10. Frozen Meat. — Sheep: Canterbury, Ugh*, 42d; medium, 4gd; heavy, 4£d; Southland, ■unchanged; North Island, 4}d; best brands, 4 5-16 d. Lambs: Unchanged- New Zealand ißeef (1801b to 2201b, fair average quality) : Ox foxes, 2Jd; ox hinds, 3 5-1 6 d. River Plate Beef: Fores, 2Jd; hinds, 3 5-16 d. ' Hemp.— Dull. February and April, £39. Cheese. — "Very firm. Canadian, 65s to 665 ; &ew Zealand, 64s to 655. Rabbits. — Firm; belter demand. '- Australian wheat cargoes, aggregating 101,000 quarters, have been placed at prices Tanging from 30s 3d to 30s 4|d.