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Temuka Leader, Issue 5920, 11 October 1910, Page 1

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_ TATTERSALL’S HOUSE MARKET. The Canterbury Farmers’ Co-opera-Hivo Association, Ltd., report as follows on their weekly horse market hold on Saturday at TiHU;r«vlTs yards : 'The yarding comprised 35 head of all sorts, and there was a good demand for young draughts lit for present work ; lir;t-class harness were also well sought after. Good young draught marcs and geldings sold up to £3B ; harness horses up to £25, and several for £2O ; aged and inferior sorts wore hard to quit. TIMARU MARKETS.

A fair business has been passing in sprouted qualities of wheat for shipment to the United Kingdom. 'The Corinthic is to load at Timaru about October 20, and a largo booking has been made for her in this class of wheat. Business in good milling is very quiet indeed, only a small sale going through. Values are, ; Velvet 4s, Tuscan and Red Chaff 3s 6d f.0.b.. sack's included. Good whole

fowl wheat, for which the demand ha,; brightened up considerably, is now I selling at 3s f.0.b., sacks included. Eor oats the market has a firmer tendency, owing to dry weather conditions. Business is chiefly of a local character. Values are not perceptibly altered, and are as follows Gartons 2; Id, Duns 2s Id to 2s 3d, Danish 2s to 2s Id f.0.b., sacks included. On Saturday the following prices wore realised j—Poultry—Cockerels, 4s Gd to 6s Cd per pair for extra prime, hens 2s 9d to 4s iJcl, ducks Is 9d to 5s Gd. Pigs —59 weaners sold at from Gs to 10s Gd. Potatoes, table

12s to 16s for prime, seed 10s to 13s ; chall, oatsheaf, 3s to 3s Gd, oatstraw Is Gd, s.i. ; fowl wheat, broken 7s to 9s, whole 8s to 10s, oats 10s to 11s, s.i. ; Jjgrley 8s to 9s. Apples 2 id, onions ltd, eggs 9d, bacon Gd.

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Oats.—The market is still in a subI deed state, as far as the export trade is concerned. Seldom' has there been such a term of inaction, but notwith* standing this stocks are steadily diminishing owing to seed orders and local feed demand. A little more enquiry was evident during the week, but in most cases buyers filled requirements from other ports at cheaper rates. Seed linos 2s to "2s 4d, prime milling Is Hid to 2s, good to best feed Is 10d to Is lid, inferior to medium Is 8d to Is 9d. There is a fair inquiry for Velvet and Velvet Far wheat, but the demand for other sorts is quiet. Any sales passing are on the basis of late quotations. Prime milling Velvet 3s lOd to 3s lid, Tuscan, Velvet Ear, etc., 3s 7d to 3s Bd, medium 3s 5d to 3s Gd, best whole fowl wheat 3s 2d to 3s 4d.

HOME AND FOREIGN MARKETS. 'LONDON, Oct. 7. The imports during the month of .September, increased by £2,12-1,120 and the exports by £-1,163,337' an. 1 the re-exports by £3‘l3,9G(i. Kerosene has dropped a penny, and petrol four pence a gallon. The Standard Oil Corporation lowered their rales because the selling group refused io allocate a quarter of their 95 per cent of European sale ; also- because of coming into the field, which the Stanover production and new companies dartl Company hopes to sweep out.

As a result of the struggle with the Trusts the Daily Hail describes Rockfeller as 1 engaged in a, great! death fight for the Standard Oil Company’s existence. The Hungarian Government is introducing a bill to create a Stale l ! monopoly in the oil wells. VIENNA, Oct. S. Lho refrigeration conference discussed an Australian resolution to the effect that no Government should hinder ( the importation of frozen meal, or other products whose people would benefit thereby. Mr Taverner in a forcible speech 1 said that Victoria was

prepared to supply Austria with cheap sound meat. The only question was were the Government prepared to do something for the people. After some opposition the resolution was carried. ’The Austrian Government is allowing a trial shipment of 25 tons of Argentine frozen meat to enter. LONDON, Oct. S. Two steamers brought to Liverpool from China 100,000 carcases of pigs, 23,000 cases of eggs, 15,000 boxes of ducks, snipe, and poultry. 'The British Australasian Trust and

Loan Company has declared an interim dividend of 5 per centum.

Compared with the July sales, merinos, good greasy combing, show about 5 per centum advance ; good scoured, slightly in sellers’ favour ; faulty, especially short fellmongLrcd. par (o a per cent decline ; crossbreds, fine medium, greasy, par to 5 per

cent decline ; lower grades par to 5 per cent advance. Scoured is general ly unchanged, fine and medium occasionally in sellers’ favour. Fine medium siipcs have declined a halfpenny. Coarse is unchanged. Lambs. Alei ino unchanged, crossbreds 5 to 7$ per cent decline.

I The Canterbury Fanners' 00-opcrn- • (jvo Association. Ltd., arc in receipt of a cable from their London office under date 7-th October, ndvishur ft decline in prices of wool at the recent sales. Tin; followinn- are the mean prices for creasy wools .--Fine crossbred, fiO’s to s!)’s, super Is 2-Ad per lb, nveraoe Is Old, inferior lOld ; medium crossbred, ■Li's, sitpcr Is Old, average II id. inferior XOd ; coarse wool, LLs, super lid, averasro LOd, inferior 81d : merino, GO’S to fit’s, super Is lid, avernije Hid, inferior lOd.