Commercial.

Western Star, Issue 1387, 7 September 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

PRICES CURRENT. WITOXiBBIIjB.| Butter, freih lOd per lb Salt batter, 8d Cheese (provincial) sid per lb Bacon, 6|d ■» Hams (provincial) 9d do >’ - ’ Eggs, oi|jper dozen Oats, 2s 3d Fowl Wheat, 3s 9d Flour (Otago) £l2 per ton Adelaide flour, none Oatmtal, (town made/ £ls per ton -Pollard, £6 Bran, £4 Oatenjhay (new), £S Chaff, £4 Straw, rone Onions, lb per ewt iSETAU. Fresh butter, Is perlh Buttf (rotted), lOd Cheese (Proriucul), 8d d Onions, td Hams (Prorincinl), lOd do JsKg»i P er 'h)*e« , Oats, 2# 9d per bnihe'. Barley, none :Flour, £l4. Bacon (Prorincial), 81 nee lb Chaff, 5s rer cwt, Bran, Is 6d per bushel. ——-® INVERCARGILL MARKETS. G. A. Birch (on behalf of the Nation* Mortgage and Agency Company of N.Z., Ltd.) •* reports on the markets for week ending 6th ; August, as follows " Wheat.—This market is still quiet, but reports from Australia are slightly encouraging, aa before long there may be some chance of “ muring off some of our heary stocks; quota- ' tioaa for which stand to-day at the nominal figures of 3s 5d to 3b 7d for prime, 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel for ordinary, delivered ia • v ' . Wn, satpkja weighed in. Oats.-—Shipments to Melbourne are now being resumed, and apace per the weekly steamers is eery difficult to procure. The market has shown no new feature since our last report, and quotations are; Prime milling *' 2e Bd; stoat feed, 2s 4d to 2» Sd, on trucks at Gauntry stations. Ryegrass.—Prime heary machine dressed " still commands brisk inquiry, and really good samples are srareo at 4s 6d per bushel, ex store, sacks extra. Timothy is also scarce, and prime samples sell freely at 5d per lb; second quality has • good tale at 4|d. DUNEDIN MARKETS. At the Burnside sale on Wednesday, fat cattle were in short supply, and a slight improvement in values to those ruling the previous week. Best bullooks sold at £7 5s to £8 15s ; extra heavy, I pen, £Bl7s 6d to £10; ordinary, £4 10s to £6 15s; cows and heifers, £3 5s to £7 2s 6d. Fat Sheep: Over 3000 were penned, representing all classes. Ordinary quality had a poor dejnand, and prices obtaining for sneh were again lower, while prime heavy wethers and . cwoe fetched about equal to lost week’s rates. On‘ the whole the market was about the dtllest of the season. Best crossbred - withers brought 13s to 15s 9d; ordinary, 8s f 6d to 12s 6d; beiit crossbred owes, lls to ■ v 14s; ordinary, 6s to 10s 6d ; merino wethers, -* Be 9d to 7s Od. For pigs prices were in favor ' ®f buyere. Grain.-—There is not many transactions to report in. the grain market. Good milling wheat is quoted at 3s 6.5 to 3s 9d. Milling oats, 2s 81d to 2s GJd ; best short feed, 2s 6d to 3s 7d; inferior, Ss 4d to 2s 5d (ex store, sacks extra). A cable message received from London by the N-Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. states that the wheat market ia weak, and has declined 6d per 480ib since last report. Canterbury frozen mutton is worth 5Jd, and Wellington ssd per lb.