COMMERCIAL.

Western Star, Issue 2152, 30 October 1897, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

INVERCARGILL MARKETS,

Fat Cattle—72 head yarded. Best bullocks brought £7 5s to £7 15s ; good, £6 5s to £6 17s 6d ; medium and light, £3 10s to £4 2s 6d ; best cows, £6 to £7; medium, £5 7s 6d: others from £3 15s to £4 15s. Fat Sheep—6sl penned. Best wethers, 16s 7d to IGs Bd—one pen extra heavy IBs9d; 1 ghtcr, 9s 8d ; best ewes, 12s 4d to 13s 2d ; good, 11a 7d ; ewes and whethers, mixed, 8s to 13s 4d. Store Sheep—l7l hoggets penned, which brought up to 8s 9d. Store Cattle—lsß bead yarded. Very few sold, and no improvement to report on late Horse Market-Prices had rather a downward tendency although a few first-class sorts would have brought good prices. Good young active draughts brought up to £2B to £24: ; medium, £22 to i‘l7 ; aged and stiff, £l3 to £5 ; hacks from £lO down, according to size and quality.

DUNEDIN MARKETS. Fat Cattle—ll 7 head yarded, one-third only prime. The demand was keen and prices advanced fully 20s per head. Best bullocks brought £9 to £lll goo J, £7 to £8 10s ; small, £5 10s to £6 15s; prime cows, £6 to £7 10a—one prime shorthorn heifer, £9; good, £4 10s to £5 17s 6d ; inferior, £3 to £4. Fat Sheep—l 722 pruned, including a few very prime drafts. For those and any real good butchers' sheep theio was brisk competition at prices showing an improvement of quite Is. Prime heavy crossbred wethers brought 16s to 16a 9d ; ordinary, 14s to 15s ; light, 12s to 13s 6d; prime ewes, 12s 6d to 14s j good, lls to 12s ; light, 9s to 10s. Fat lambs-were in ovtr supply, and prices, excent for very boat, declined about 3s; top price 10s 6d.* Pigs—lls penned, which sold at last week s rates, except suckers, which were in over supply, and fell in price by about 2s. Prime bacon pigs, 36s to 58s; porkers, 24a to 32s ; grown stores, 18s to 265; slips, 14s to 17s 6 ; suckers, 8s 6d to 12a 6d. Chaff.—Demand slow, except for really prime samples, and those these are worth £3 5s to £3 10s (latter price hard to get); other quality hardly saleable. Babbitskins,—Prime winters, 13d to 141 d ; selected does, 14£ to 15d; second winters, lid to 12|d ; autumns, 8d to 10|d ; summers, 5d to 7d ; small, Id to 3d per lb; winter blacks, 12d to 16d per lb. Linseed (wanted), £lO 10s to £ll. Potatoes—Derwents; North, 47s 6d ; south, 40s to 42s 6d.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney. Wheat—Chick, 3s 9d to 3s XOd; milling, nominal, 4s Gd to 4a 7d. Flour —N.Z., £ll 5s to £lllos ; local, £l2 to £l2 10a ; Manitoban, £l3 to £l3 10a. Oats—local, 2s 2d to New Zealand 2s Maize, 2s sd. Barley, English, 3s 3d. Bran and pollard Bd. Potatoes—New Zealand Derwents, £3 2s Gd to £3 5s ; Ballarat, £3 10a ; Tasmanian £4 ; Clarence River, new £5. Onions—prime Victorian, £lllos to £l2 10s; San Francisco, £l3. Butter—choice creamery, 9d. CheeseNew Zealand, largo, 4s4Jd ; loaf,sid. Bacon, 6d to Tjd. New Zealand hams, 9d. Melbourne. Wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 4d, Oats—Algerian feed, Is 2d to Is 4d; milling, la 5d to Is Gd ; stout white, Is lid. Maize, 2s Gd. Bran, 10jd to lid. Potatoes, £2 12s Gd to £2 15a. Onions, £2 10s. Adelaide. Wheat is dull and no sales are reported—last quotations, 5s 2d. Flour, £l3 10s. Oats, 3s to 3s 3d. Bran, la Id ; pollard, Is 2d. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET. Wellington, October 27.—The Department of Agriculture has received the following cable message from the Agent-general .'—Butter, 98s ; heavy supplies on hand Cheese, 465; market falling.

INVERCARGILL GROCERS’ ASSOCIATION CURRENT PRICES. WHOLESALE. Fresh Butler, 6d Cheese, farm 4d Bacon, farm 5d Do Rolled farm 5d Ham, 7d Eggs 7d, per doz Potatoes, £3 per ton Barley, 2s to 2s G i Fowl wheat, 4s Chaff, £3 per bon Flour, £l2 to £l2 15s Oatmeal, £ll to £ll 10s Pollard, £3 10s Bran, including bags, £2 10s RETAIL Fresh Butter, 8d Eggs, 91 per doz Cheese, Gd Bacon, 9d per lb Do rolled, 8d to 9cl Hams, BAd Potatoes, 4s per cwt Flour, 2001 b 26s 5 50lb 7s Oatmeal, 501 bGs 3d; 251 b3s 3d Pollard, Gs 3d per bag Bran, 3s per bag Chaff, Is 9d per bag Fowls feed, 4s Gd per bushel

Milk, 3d per quart Bread, 7d per 41b loaf Beef, 3d (boiling) to 5d roast, and 7d for rump steak. Mutton, fore quarter and side 2d, hind quarter 3d, leg 4d, chops sd.