COMMERCIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12824, 4 November 1905, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

TIMARU PRODUCE MARKET. Wheat—Only a small amount of business has been transacted during the week, chiefly through the absence of outside enquiry, which has been checked by intervening holidays. Prices, however, remain on a parity with those' of last week, namelv, Tuscan and "Velvet 3s 2£d, Hunters 3s Id, f.0.b.; sacks extra. ' Oats—The only demand is- for local trade. Gartons Is lOd, Danish Is 9d, Duns 2s, at country stations ; sacks extra. Barley—There is good enquiry for feed sorts, the value beinc 2s : 8d f.o.b. ■

THE HOME MARKETS-, Messrs Dalgety and 6c-. report under date, London, November 2nd:—"Frozen mutton and lamb, prices are at par to id per lb lower since, our last telegram. Frozen beef prices are unchanged. We believe frozen meat prices have touched bottom. The tone of the butter market is rather worse. The Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. We expect lower prices. The total butter imports into the United Kingdom for the week ended 28th October amounted to 65,000 cwt. as com-' . pared »jth 62,000 cwt for the" same period last year, showing an increase of 3000 cwt."

STUDHOLME STOCK SALE. At this sale yesterday the market was very small and only a sprinkling of farmers attended. The cattle market was ?till down, -but nearly all stock changed hands. The sheep market was small. Prices ware as follows:-—Cattle, 2 steers at £2 9s 6d, 5 2£ years at £2 6s, 22 24 and 3 years at £2 18s, 25 18 months al 12s 6d, 2 yearlings at 275, 3: yearlings at £l, 1, &year-old. heifer at £2 7s 6d, 5 15 months old heifers at 575, 2 18 months bullocks at £2, 2, yearling, heifers at 30s, l.'b.ull.at £4 2s 6d, 5 yearlings at lis 4 heifers at 275. 6d, 3 yearluigs at 10s 1 cow with, calf at £2, i old cow at'£2 10s, 1. old cow at 37s 6d, 1 ditto at £2 Is, A dry cows at £l, 3 dry cows at £2 2s • yagers. 2nd and 3rd calf at £5 10s, aA '„ £s r' £2 ' sPMging heifers at £2 8s 6d, £2 ss, £3 10s, £2 2s 6d, £2 10s ,1 s » She *V' M fat """> forward wethers 4 and 6-tooth at 16s 3d (passed), '227 hoggets (mixed sexes) at 16s lid (passed); breeding ewes, 24 ewes and 30 lambs at 10s 3d, 90 ewes and 80 lambs at 10<= 3d 150 ewes and 146 lambs at lis Id (passed)' 62 ewes and 68 lambs at 9s. W d -*- ea ><

THE CHRISTCHURCH -MARKETS.

Per Press Association.

CHRISTCHURCH, November 3. i , .„ 1S a S ood enquiry on the part of local millers for prime wheat, and the market is firm, sales of extra prime having taken place at 3s Id at country stations* A large line principally Hunters has beea sold at 3s at From Oamaru &.% reported that the wheat market Vmucf more active than for some- tame" past ' IfFl? £ S 0 of" (jriquiries from the North Island for prims billing Mer &S J*™ dis P 6^.«': more than of Velvet n B . to ,3s 4d, and up to 3Vsd' b,Sw * . som V?<l»»T in Chri'stchnrch bub business is restricted owing to the of offerings, -The exportVpofaCs °h£ practically ceased, a, ifocks remaWngSf con'smnprioT ™ for %^