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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7871, 13 July 1905, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

BURNSIDE STOCK MARKET (Per l'rcss Association.) DUNKDIN, July 12. Fat cattle—l 77 head wen- yarded, ol which the usual proportion were prime to heavy bullocks. There was good inquiry for prime quality, and prices for unfinished cattle were kept up by the competition of graziers. Best bullocks brought £9 Ms to £ll ss, medium £8 to £9, light and inferior £5 10s to £7 10s, best cows £i 10s to £9 15s, light do. £5 5s to £6 10s.

Fat sheep.—The requirements of the trade were well supplied bv an entry of 1549. A fair proportion' consisted of prime heavy weights, the balance being made up of light medium weight wethers and a few pens of ewes. The sale opened with a slow demand, with a reduction of about Is per head on last week's rates, and although values improved during tlie progress of the sab they fell away again towards the end. Altogether the sale was unsatisfactory, buyers having the best of it. Heavy weight wethers 25s to 275, medium 22s to 245, light and inferior 17s to 21s, best ewes 21s to 2-ls 6d Fat lambs.-180 yarded, there being only a few pens of reallv prime and the demand was good. Best lambs brought IBs 6d to 18s, others 15s 3d to 16s. 1

Fat pigs.-200 w V e yarded, mostly bacon and porker pigs. There was a fair demand at prices on a par with last week.

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET, (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, July 12. Oats-There is small business passing in seed lines, and fair inquiry for milling. Sutherlands ami Gartonsany offering at quotations are readily placed. Seed lines Is lOd *-, ">s 3d, prime nulling Is gjd to )s 9d good to best feed Is 7d to Is 8d inferior Is 5d to Is 6id. Wheal .-The market is dull, millers holding off till they ascertain how the output question will l )e settled £'™ n » '"S 3 V« 3 * 3d. medium do. is iw to 2s lid, whole fowl d^'JVV 02 " 9 *' 1 . broken «d damaged 2s 3d to 2s 7d.

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Pft u ICnt »' !nd "«ri« and nmnww has recekvH Ih.- foiling uililegrani'iron. the Hi K h Conunissoiu '■ith'T ?"'"' Aalanfi - dau,d London,

The mutton market is Viull. owing o a poor demand.. The average price to-day for Canterbury mutton'(light "eights, ,s IJ d per Tb. and for other North Island, mutton I'd per lb • Canterbury mutton I heavy weights'' !l7w "'I, N '* lh '"''""I ton. Id. Holders are making cy.-rv "Oort t/> push sales Average weight carcases. 3Jd per lb. ' h

the lamb market is ~ ~ -p,,,. stwk ot light-weight lambs is light and hrmly held in few 'tinds. Thenveragc price for Canterbury brands is •'•ld |w lb. and for X™ Zealand lamb, of brands other than Canterbury, .-.-Jd : tegs. IJd per Th. The Iwf market is <piiet. The. average price to-day for hindquarters of New Zealand beef is 3;d p-;r lb. and for fonnniurtcrs. 2Jd |kt lb. The butter market is very sfpong. and supply does not meet required inents. The average price of choices; New Zi-aland butter to-dav is litis per cwt. nominal: Danish, Ills : Canadian,, K>os : Argentine. IOOs.

There has- Ipen no alteration in the cheese market since last week. The hemp market is dull, and v«t-y little business is doing. The stock > lCcumulating, the number of bale-, H ■tock being 2907, against 927 for the -amc period last year. Tne-evernge price of New Zealand hemp, "good fair Wellington" prade, on spot today .per ton is £2fi ; July and August shipments, £27. The jjrice of Alanila hemp, "fair current" grade (July and August shipments), per ton is £36 10s.

! There is a better demand for cocksfoot seed, and buyers have been offering more freely, a B the American crop is expiated to be short. The average price to-day for bright. c\ in New Zealand cocksfoot seed, weighing 17Tb per bushel, is .">3s per, cwt. The wool market is firm at the ailj Vance, and there is a general and [active demand.

The hop market is quiet, the ni-r ket being affected by English crop accounts which' are very encouragi/ig.