DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Southern Cross, Volume 5, Issue 37, 18 December 1897, Page 5

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Dunedin, Dec, 15th. Pat Cattle —The sale was dull and last week's prices were not maintained; for ordinary quality values were quite 15s per head lower. Prime bullocks, LBtoL 95s ; ordinary, L6to L 7 10s; light, L4to L 5 10s ; prime cows, L 5 10s to L 6 12s 6d; good, L 4 to L 5 ss; inferior, L2 to L 3 10s. Fat Sheep—There being no export buyers and butchers confining purchases largely to lambs, the market collapsed, and sales were difficult to effect even at a reduction of Is 6d to 2s per head Prime crossbred wethers in wool, 12s 6dto 14s; do shorn, 9s to 9s 3d; ditto ewes in wool 10s to 12s gd ; ditto shorn, 7s to 8s ; ordinary, 5s to 6s. For lambs the competition was fair, but prices were not so good as last week by fully Is per head, ranging from 6s to 9s 9d. Grain.—Wheat: Medium quality is unsaleable except at fowls’ wheat price. Quotations for prime northern velvet, 4s 6d to 4s 8d; best red wheat and Tuscan 4s 2d to 4s 5d ; medium (nominally), 3s 9d to4s.2d; inferior, 3s to 3s (ex store, sacks weighed in, terms). Oats : The market is very firm, not so much perhaps owing to the demand which is fairly brisk, but rather to the unsatisfactory reports of the condition of the growing crops both north and south. Quotations : Prime milling, Is lid to 2s; prime stout short feed, Is lOd to Is 10^d; medium to good, Is to Is sacks extra, net). Barley: There are no stocks now to operate on—only odd lots of inferior, which readily sell at 2s 9d to 3s (ex truck, sacks extra, net). Chaff—The supply being sufficient for requirements, prices are unchanged; best fetching L 3 5s to L 3 10s; extra prime, L 3 to L 3 6s ; medium to good, L2 10s to L 3 per ton (ex store, sacks extra, net). Potatoes—Old Derwents are now almost unsaleable and only at prices ranging from 7s 6d to 15s per ton, newly picked.