SALE OF HAWKE'S BAY CLIPS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 22

SALE OF HAWKE'S BAY CLIPS.

We arc informed tfiat afc fcne wool sales hoW in Napier during February last top prices were realised for Mr John A. Macfar lane's ewo clip from B«n Lomond Station, the figure being 9^d per lb for 1 Romney Cross; and at the January" sale* the Lincoln-merino ewe wool from .Mrt M 'Lean's Glencoe Estate made what was probably the record price for" ewe wool 4 sold in New Zealand during last season— i.e., Is per lb. The gentlemen above mentioned *ttri-» bute the splendid condition of their clipd to the absolute immunity from ticks and! other parasites enjoyed by their sheep during the previous winter and spring-, duel to their having been dipped in Quibell's Powder Dip in the autumn. Every sheep-owner is respectfully invited! to test Quibell's Powder Dip on level term* against any other brand he fanci««, anfl allow himself to be guided 1 by results.

Vpan - - the- pogiEioßT'^Ss^—- The wheat , market hae dropped a tick during the , week, inasmuch as old wheat is now offer- , ihg at 5s 3£d in the country and 5s 3d ex { Darling Island. Business, howeier, has ; been of only a nominal character. New • crop ts at present attracting be3t attention, _ farmers generally holding firm. Quotations range from-4e-3d to 4s 4d. Flour remains in the same monotonous condition of inacitivityl Parcels have been offering during the week at down to £11 ss. while purchasers have been difficult to find. ' The Australian, of July 31, reports upon the Melbourne market in the following terms :— " The Melbourne market has remained in a dull condition. Moderate shipments have lately been made in the form of steamer parcels, and a cargo , o* 5500 tons is about to be loaded. The millers continue to operate only from -handr to mouth, owing partly to the dull state of the flour trade. Supplies offering, however are moderate. The market may wj quoted at 4s Hid, small lots being worth slightly lees. New crop wheat for next Year's delivery is slightly easier at about 2 3d. Until the shippers start buying Sn earnest, however, opewAwM in new wheat are only of a speculative character Flour: The local demand continues rather flow. as*a number of .bakers are still proxr\At>A for under earlier contracts. me 2.13 BUSB-srtSjys. tions for wheat. . rooorts — Xnishing their stocks of o!d gr«n. The railway station} equal to 5s 3Jd i»yaiu.yj. fcuehel to the grower, or about 4*<W (Sydney). A few sales of farmers email lots axe reported, the contracting shippers and millers specifying the usual condition "no crops, no wheat." This precludes ■purchase from outside the farm by tr.e farmer. There is also the taoit agreement that new crop bought now for DecemberJanuary delivery is subject to being a> least up to the f.a.q. standard, to be fixed Jor the next cereal year." The local market maintains a decided firmness, and in the face of the continued doubt as to the accuracy of departmental export figures, is considered likely to do so till at least December, before v.h o.i time no outside influence can be brought to bear upon local conditions. The millers now are practically the sole operators in what business is being done. Farmers, ihowever, are not yet keen to lighten thenholdings. The top price of the week was ipaid at Timaru for a mixed line, ex store. | the figure being 4« 9d. In a few davo' time the Bantu- will leave Lyttelton for j South Africa with a fair line of wheat, j -which was secured some little time ago ' at 4« 6d f.o.b.s.i. Some lines durin? the | iweek changed hands at about 4s s id to 4s 6d, on trucks, but offering's are sirall i£nd restricted. - Tlie association's tariff for flour is : Sacks. 310 15s; 100's, £11; 50'e, £11 1C«: 25-. £11 15s. The shipping v>r:c:> is £10 10= | •f.0.b., and the Invercargill price is £11. The association's price for pollard stanr'? *t £4 10s. Bran is stationary at £3 l:s per lon. The oats market has been on the quiet side during the week owing to the offerings ibeing li raited. Considerable shipping business, engageme-nfe for which were macla | Rome tim© ago* is being 1 dene, and the , estimates of tha totel amount wh'ch will be shipped at tfce end of tihe month mdi- , cate that a very heavy dir-ain has been made upon the availa^^e surolrs of t'-e Dominion. Without going into detail, it would probably be on the safe side to say that by the end of August three-oua'-ter3 of the estimated surpltu of 6.000,000 bushels will have been accounted for, leaviner in the hands of 'holders, say, abiiit 1,600,000 bushels. The London market has taken on an easier tone in the la^t few days, perhaps due to the midsummer holidays indulged in at 'this time. This easing has eaten up the exporters' margin. a nd on present prices it is impo-sibls for continued export business to be done. Unl*s therefore, the local market eases or London advances, business for tha remainder < f the season will be only in accordance with ■local demand. Last week's prices of from ki lOid for A grade Gartons to about 19 d for B grade sparrowbills remain in force. Oatmeal remains at £10 10s (per ton. and pearl barley at £14- 10s. Consignments of chaff during the week wore more in accordance with demand than was the case- last week, and lines of superior quality proved to be in good request. Prices are as follow.— Prime oaten sheaf. £2 12s 6d to £2 ISs; medium to good, £2 5s to £2 7s 6d; light ar.d inferior loi«. £1 15s per ton and upwards (sacks o\t,ra). Potatoes stand at about last week's lc\el.

THine Up-to-Dates, £3 10s to £3 12s 6d; medium, to good, £3 2s 6d to £3 ss; inferior, £2 per ton (sacks in). i „ In butfee* the supply coming forward is ; very ' heavy, but prices remain at about last week's figures. Dairy pats, B£d to 9d; milled, 9d to 9£d; separator 1 pate. 9£d ; bulk, 9£d ; Taieri anfi Peninsula pats, ll|d (id rebate for cash) ; Taieri and "Peninsula bulk, Hid. Cheese. — Home shipment, sjd per lb; local lots, 6d to 6id pea- lb. i Straw. — Prices are easier. Oaten, £1 7s per ton; wheaten, £1 5s per ton (pressed, ex truck). Clover hay, £2 10s tc £3 per ton. Onions.— Canterbury, £4 10s to £5 per ton. Eggs were very heavily supplied to the local market, and prices suffered a consideiable drop, and fresh sold at from Is to Is 2d. Bacon.— Rolls, 3-id ; flitches, 7d ; bams, B£d ; bacon pigs, 4;Jd ; porkers, 4£d. Poultry. — Hens, 3s 6d per pair ; i roosters, 3s 6d to 4s ; ducks, 3s to 3s 6d ; 1 best, 4s 6d; turkeys — hens sd, gobblers 8d per lb. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. The arrivals during the week comprised the following: — Warrimoo, from Sydney, with 450 cases of mandarins, Icmoins, passions, and Sevilles ; the Rarotonigan shipment par Warrimoo and Wimmera, 1900 cases of oranges and 1000 oases of bananas ; the Moeraki, from Melbourne and Hobart, with 800 cases of apples, lemons, and passions ; and the Tarawera, from Auckland, | with 80 cases of oranges and 30 cases of ' poorman oranges. [ Quotations are as follow: — | Oranges- — Rarotongan repacks, 8s to 9s; Queensland orang.es, 6s to 7s 6d; Navels, 9s to jOs; Sydney, 5s to 6s; Sevilles (good demand), 6s to 6s 6d; Poormans Bushells, 6s 6d to Bs. • Mandarins.— Queensland, 7s to 8s; Sydney—choice, 8a ; medium, 6s 6d. r Lemons. — Market moderately supplied. South Australian, 11s to 12s; Milduras, 12s; Sydneys, 7s to 8s case. Bananas. — Ripe, 2^d to 2£d ; Rarotongan green, 4s to ss. Pines. — Choice Queensland (rough), 11s to 12s; Queens, up to 14s. Apples. — Choice cookers, 2Jd to 2Jd ; medium, l£d to lid; windfalls, 5s to 7s cwt ; Hobart, choice scarlets, 9s to 10s 6d ; Stunners, 9s 6d ; French Crabs, 8s 6d ; Stones, 8s case ; local dessert, 2£d to 3d. Pears. — Few offering-. Victorian, 12s. Vegetables. — Cabbages, It to Is 6d per sack. Lettuce, 6d to Is 3d per box. Cauliflower, 2s 6d to 4s 9d per sack. Pie melons (barely supplied), 7s 6d to 8s 6d per cwt. Pumpkins, 4s 6d to 5s 6d per sack. Vegetable marrows, 6s to 6s 9d; scarce. Passion FruiL— Half-gins, 7s to 8s 6d; Bushels, 8s 3d to 9s. Honey.— Choice, 4^l to 42d per lb; 10lb tins, 3s 6d to 4s ; choice sections, 6s to 7s per dozen ; medium, 3s to 4s 6d 1)0 r dozen. j Peanuts. — Java, 2d ; Japanese, 2*d to 3d. Preserved ginger, 7Ad per lb. j Walnuts. — Good demand. Prime quality, ' sid to 6d. Barcelona nuts. s<>d to 63d. Brazil nute, 7^d to Bid per lb. IMPORT MARKET. The import houses generally will b-> not a little inconvenienced by reason of ilip I complete wreck of the Shaw Savill C'o.'s liner Maori off Capetown, as she earned very hoary shipments for the local market. It ia yet a little early to \~e able to indicate what the exact effeot of the less will be, as the merchants' invoices are no; y<»t to hand. It is known, however, (hat the vessel carried somo particular lin-es the loss of which will be keenly felt, as 1 they were wanted for a market whit?; will 1 probably l>3 changed by the time <!uplicat2 ] orcTers can be fulfilled. tii polios of th" 1 ! following lines were known to be on the I ves&el : — Xew season's honing", Cross aihl Blackwell's Lucca oil, the sjuio firm's es1 sense of ancho\y, Mollor's s-.iuee (pint 5 ), j Lea and Perrin's e-auc-s in pints and lulf pints, Eno's fruit 6alts, English split peas an<l lentils, Morton's table -vinegar, ground alum, whiting, Morton's olive oil. Van 1 Houten's cocoa, ar.d CohiunS la 1 the cose of the new sc<'^on's fVn, it is ' the practic-s to allow stocky to run <'own 1 al-out this time in anticipation of the now bupplics coming for « aid. and local stock* I ar the present are therefore on tha e-mail ! >-ide. Other lines for which immediato f urgency is felt are Lucca oil. whiting, and some lines of sauces. The monthly shipments of Van Houten's cocoa ar.d Colman'a goods are also lo*t. as is a fair-sized sh.pment of salt of which the market was in need. The new season's aupply cf dairy ! rennet and cheess colouring matter was ! also on board, but there will p^rh.ps b3 sufficient supplies of these lines m the I colony to tide over the opening of the season and (prevent incomenienre-. A ship- ' ment of Iluntloy and Palmer's biscuits was ' also lost. In general hardware goods, the loss will probably be somewhat r"*avy, as a full shipment of new season's lines wae on board, this including such artic-hs ' as sheep shears and general hai vesting i g-oods. The wreck of this vessel is I specially unfortunate for the local market

as she contained the usual lines imported at the opening of the season to replenish stocks. The price of X -jam in 21b glass jars has been reduced to 13s per dozen. A shipment of cocoanut has just arrived, and quotations for chests (loose) are H<\ per lb, half chests 4£d per lb, and in packets s|d to 6d per lb. An advance has to be recorded in seeded raisins, and quotations are now 4 s to 4s 3d. Jeyes' disinfectant powder is now on the market, and the price is 6s fcr small tins and 10s for large tins (per dozen). The Walkure, with a shipment of American kerosene, arrived during the week Melhuish's Worcestershire sauce is quoted as follows, the prices being for j quarts, pints, and half pints respectively: Five cases, 8s 6d, 4s 3d, 3s ; one ca c. 9s, 4s 9d, 3s 3d; less quantities, 10s, ss, 3s 6d. The price for Boon's cocoa, oacked in lib £lb, or ilb tins, is 2s Bd, 2s 9d, ar.d 2s lOd per lb.