LATEST MARKETS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11635, 16 March 1901, Page 1

LATEST MARKETS.

AUCKLAND— March 14. [Telegraphed by special correspondents TO THE TAKAKAKI HERALD] Business continues quiet. Maise it heavily stocked, and a further drop ht% taken place. Potatoes are in better demand. Eggs aro 2d dearer. Quotations are as follows : — Fresh butter: Firsts, 6d per 1b ; seconds, sd; primesalt butter, Bd; seconds, sd; cheese, local, 4 Ad tosdporlb; factory, sdto 6Jd; eggs, Is doz ; bams (ia? cloth), 8d to i 9d ; bacon (in cloth), Wto 6d ; rollor flour, £7 10s ; maize, 2s Id to 2s 3d (ex wharf): oats, feed, Is lid to 2s 2d; wheat, 2s 6d to 2s lOd; fowl wheat, 2s 8d ; oatmeal (25'), £9 153 ; potatoes, 3s to 3s 6d cwt. Grain, Fodder, &c —Messrs Bookland & Sons report has not reached this week. Horse Stock, &c— Messrs Backhand & Sons' report has not reached us this week. Wooi,, Sides, Skins, &c— Messrs G. W. Binney and Sons report did no% come to hai 1 ibis week. f MOJBA£>I Cattle, Si 1 \ep, &c— Messrs A. Buck I land & Sons report at Bemuera on Thursday da! s cows sold freely froni L 5 5s to L 8 b each; fat and young S calves, better *Jrth; an average muster of beef fully kept last week's quotations, !19s to 22s 1001 b for well-fatted steers and heifers; aged cows, 16s to 18s; steers j ranged from L 6 12s 6d to LlO 7a Mf I cows, L 4 10s to L 6 12s 6d. Fat sheep I scarcely held last week's values; wethers. 14s to 16s 3d; ewos. 12s to 16s; fat lambs, 10s to 14s 3d; small, 6s to 9a each; store wothers,l2s 6d to 14s 6d;«wW« 8s to 13s. Pigs of all ctaae* Bold f^gff 68 to 14s each. — The New Zealand Loss & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. report:— Cattle: At the Newmarkot yards on on Tuesday dairy cows brought from £5 5s to £7 12s 6d; buef wero in full numbers, and sold at last week's rates; steers sold from 19s to 22s per lOOlbs; cows, 17s to 19s; oxen brought from L 8 2s 4d to L 9 15s; cows, L 4 5s to L 8 15s each. For aheep prices declined from last week; wethers sold fi-om 12s 3d to 17s 9d; ewec, 10s 6d to 15s 3d; store ewes, 8s 9d to 12s 6d; lambs, from 8s 6d to 13s 6d. Porkers sold from 15s to 265; weanors, 5s 6d to 12s 6deach. CHBISTCHUBCH GRAIN MABEEI • CHBiBTCHrrcH, March 13. —Business in the grain market is lifeless. Oats are moving off slowly and prices ar# weaker. Wheat: Prime milliog nominal, TusJ can and Pearl, 2s 4d ; Hunter's, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; whole fowl wheat, 2s Id to 2s 2d. Oats (nominal) : Hilling (Canadian^, Is 5d ; short feed. Is 4d ; Duns and Danish, Is 2d to Is Ad, Barley : Prime malting, 2s 2d to 2s 3d, Flour : Millers quote roller, £6 10s< stone, £6 ; sharps, £3 15s ; bran, £3 ss. Oatsheaf chaff, 40s to 42s 6d at country stations. Oatmeal, £10. Beans 1 2s 5d to 2s 6d. Peas : Blue Prussians and . Partridge, 2s 4d to 2s sd. Sqeds : Byegrass, farmers' lines, Is 3d to Is 6d: machino dressed, up to 2a 9d. Cocksfoot, farmers' dressed lines, 2sd to 2|d for bright seed. Cowgrass, 5d to 6d. Whlto clover, farmers' lines, 6d to 7id. Dairy Produce: Cheese, dairy, 4d to 4Jd ; factory, 4id to sd. Butter: Fresh local factory, 10d: best dairy, 7d to 9d ; salt, in boxes, 6d to 7d for prime. Bacon and hams, 6}d 6Jdtoj factory, id per lb higher. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. Messrs Frator Bros.' telegraphed to us asf ollows on Thursday evening>-Ssles : South British, 775; Nationals, 19a; Gas, £13 12s 6d; Ferry, 365; Northern Steam, 7s 6d; Drugs. 64s 3d; Sharlands, 17s; Kaiapoi, £6 13s 6d; Taupiri, 18s; Unioo Oil, 19s 3d; Waihi, £10 5s to £10 14s; Crowa.. 12s 4d; Talisman, 23s 6d| Komata, 3s Id; Tairua, Is 7d; Waihi Extended, 2s lOd; Barriers, fis 3d. Buyers: National Bank, 70s; Accident, 31s 6d; Shipping, £6; Biver Plates, I*B 3d; D.S.C., 8s lOd.