COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3836, 28 December 1901, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

DUKE DIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wheat—Prime quality wheat is scarce, and may be quoted at 3s Id, but millers are holding off, and sales are difficult to effect at that price. Fowls’ feed readily sells at 2a lid to 3s. Oats—Prices for oats are hardening. The principal demand is for B grade, which is worth up to 2s 4d. Barley—No prime barley is in the market. Medium has been sold at 2s 3d to 2a 6d, and feed up to 2a. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Market on Wednesday the following business was transacted : Fat Cattle —G 1 head of fat cattle were yarded. Prices were better at the start than last week, but as soon as a few butchers had supplied their requirements the demand ceased, and some cattle had to be passed. Beat bullocks sold up to £ll 2s 6d, heifers up to £8 15s. Fat Sheep—Only 162 fat sheep were penned. One pen of prime wethers realised 18s 3d each. Others sold at about last week’s rates. Fat Lambs—2Bo lambs were panned, and sold well at a slight advance. Extra prime fetched 14s 6d to 15s, prime 12s 6d to 13a 9d, others 10s to llsOd. Pigs—s 6 pigs were yarded, and sold at last week’s quotations, AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Dec. 25. Very little business is doing except in Christmas goods. Wheat, chick, 2s 3d ; milling, 2s 10*d. Flour, local, £7 ; Manitoban, £ll 10a to £l2. Oats, Tasmanian prime, 2s lid to 3s. Maize, prime, 2s lid. Bran, 9d. Potatoes, £3 5s to £3 10s. Onions, Victorian £3 ss. Butter, factory maUu, 9*d. Cheese, New Zealaud lo.if, 7d. Bacon,New Zealand flitches.7*d to B*d. Hams, New Zealand, 91 to lOd. Note.— Iho abo r e quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. Melbourne, Dec. 25. AY heat, 2s lid. Flour, £6 10s to £6 15s. Oats, Algerian, 2s 2*d. Maize, 2s 7d. Adelaide, Dec. 25. Wheat, 2s 10*d. Flour, £6 15s. Bran, lOd. Pollard,lid. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. London, Dec. 22. Hemp is steady; good Wellington MarchMay shipment, £3O 10s. Silver, 2a l*d. Prozeu mutton —New Zealand crossbred wethers and maiden ewes, Canterbury, 3 5-lCd ; Dunedin and Southland, 3d ; North Island. 2 13 16d. Lamb, prime Canterbury, 4Jd; fair average, including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury, 4fd. River Plafe sheep, crossbreds or merino wethers, heavy, 211 IGd ; light, 211-16 d. New Zealand beef, 1801 b to 2201 b, fair average quality ox, fore-quarters, 2fd ; ox hind-quarters, 4*d. Dec. 25. Consols, 94. New South Wales 4 per cents 115 „ „ » 8* .. „ 105 jj ji i> 8 „ „ 96 Victorian ... 4 „ „ ill „ ~ ... 3* ~ ~ 104 South Australian 3j „ „ 104 >i » 8 „ „ 94 Queensland ... 4 „ „ 108 ~ • ••3* >, n 104 New/ea'and ... 4 ~ „ 1114 „ „ ... 3* „ „ , 106* „ ~ ... 3 ~ „ 95 Tasmanian ... West. Australian 34 ~ ~ 103 The wheat markets are firm, and show a hardening tendency. Cargoes ore higher. South Australian November-January ship meets, 30s 3d ; Victorian, afloat, 31s Gd. The Bradford wool market is brisk and hardening. The holiday closed the market for butter, cud no business is doing. Prices are unchaged. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,640,000 quarters,-and for the Continent 1,055,000 quarters.