COMMERCIAL.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 June 1911, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

TARANAKI STOCK SALES. At R&hofcu calves and' store cows were in .good demand and sold at improved rates. Small calves madfe 17s to 22s 6d, good calves 25e to 345, 15 to 18-month heifers £3 2b, Jersey heifer calves ; 40s 6d, 2i to 3-year heifers an calf £3 10s to £4 13s, fat cows £4 los to £5 9s, store vows £2 16s to £3 10s. At Waiwalvaiho good calves were in demand, but few came fonvaird. Mixed weaners made 20s to 275, heifer do. 365, 18-month to 2-yea.r steers £2 19s 6d to £3 6s, springing heifers £5 to £6 7s 6d, etore cows £2 to £2 17s, fat cows £5 3s, forward cows £3 6s .to £3 11s, bulls £3 18s 6d to £o 4s, working bullocks £2 10s per pair, lambs 8s 4d, old ewes os Id. ! PALMERSTON PRICES. Messrs Harry Palmer and Co. report on Saturday's sale as follows :— Weaner pigs Is 9d to 3s, slips 3s to ss, stores 8s to 14s, porkers 225, inferior pullets 2s Cd per , pair, good 5, good hens 4s 6d, old hens 2s to 2s Gd*, geese 2s , 9d each, tin-keys 13s per pair (gobbler and hen). * The market all -round for poultry was miiich in advance of recent sales. In vegetables, mangolds brought 2s, carrots 2s 6d to 4s, swedes 35,, par•nips 6s, potatoes 10s to 12s,*chaff 4s 9d, cow chaff 4s 9d, rhubarb 6s dozen, rabbits Is per pair, apples 2s 6d small eases, large do. 6s 401b, bran 10s, pollard 13s. WAXGANUI STOCK SALES. Store'cows £2 6s to £3 135.. weaners 24s 6d to 29s 6d., sm,ill do., bs I 6d, 2-tooth wethers 12s 6d, mixed lambs 6s 2d, forward ewes 10s, store ewes 4s to 6s 3d, best porkers bis 6d to 335, medium do. 23s 6d -to 28s, light do. 16s to £1, weoners 3s fc , ! to 7s 6d. TIMARU MARKETS. (Timaru Herald). Business has been quiet in the local produce markets during the past week. Wheat.—There is very little wheat on offer. For odd l lots brought forward, farmers have ; been offered 3s 4d per bushel, delivered >n Timaru, but in no case has a seller been willing to accept anything below 3s. 6d. The market is inclined to cfaee, although no actual have taken place to prove whether thiß j supposition is correct. The nomin- ] al value is 3s 4d per bushel at country stations.

Oats.—Next to no business is reported as having been done duri'ig the past -week. Tbe nominal vali* is 2s 3d per bushel at country stations. No oa.te are offering locally and Southland is doiing all the bvsiness with the North Island. • Luring the week four trucks of Southland oats came to Timaru iajv Southland to be used for *eed p«d milling purposes. Potatoes.—The market, so *«\r as local business is concerned, ib flrll, and) the nominal value remains at £3 5s per ton f.o.b. About IUOO tons of Wai mate potatoes _ have Veer, shipped to Auckland this week.

The fniit market is not very bnVk just now, there being no; gre««. 1 . variety for sale. Yesterday, a side consignment of Cook Island oranges and Raratonga bananas cause to hand in .rather, a damaged condition. Oranges are worth from 8s 6d to P? a case and bananas from 9s to 9e 6d. A shipment of good _Nelson apf>les is also to hand, being wcvth rom 8s to 10s a case.

DUNEDIN MARKETS

(Otago Daily Times.)

Locally the wheat market is pretty dull, with little demand by millers, and there are very few lines offering. The Wlk of the wheat in Southland has now practically beendisposed of by farmers,

millers lutying-, puitohased tomge quiantities. . Oaiiiiaru farmei's are flsbirig 3s 4d, on trucks, for velvet, buft" millers aa'O not responding, while pearl is quotetl at 3s 5d to 3s 5Jd ex trucks,- Diinedin, and prime velvet 3s 6d, Tuscan 3s od to 3s 6d, amd medi'um 3s 3d to 3s 4d. ' Tbese-quo-tations, bowe-ver, are largely nominal. Fowl wheat is scarce and i.s quoted at 3s 4d to 3s od per bushel. The tariff of the Flourmillea-s' Association for flour and other lines is as follows:—Flour: sacks, £9 ss; 1001b £9 lo.s; 501b £10; 1 251b bags, £10 ss.' OatmeaJ, £13 10s per ton. Pearl barley, £14 per ton. Bran, £4 los per ton. Pollard, £6 per ton. The oat market is even firmer this week. Oats are wanted for ■the North Island, but buyei-s there are disinclined to operate at cment values, and are not responding it the advance. Practically all the oats in ;Southland l nm\ C>taffo are now in •merchant? , ]na<iwls, i'airme.rs holding very" little—in fact, mmdi, fees ininn is usual at this time of the year. Bluff stores, winch at this time in previous years hare held stocks of 300,000 to 350.00) sacks, do not to-day hold as many as that;by a good .many thousand. Inland stores are also lighter stu:ked than-'Ustial. There are steady inquiries from Canterbury and North Otago for milling and 1 feed oir.s. Sales have been executed dui.rirar the week at 2s 3Jd to 2s 33d, on truck', Gom and Ta'pamii, which price is relaitively higher than the ruling f.0.b.5.i.., quotations for,.shipment to the North Island, which. «ire as follow :—A Gartons 2s 7d to 2s 7*d, t) G-artons 2s 6d to 2s 6Jd, A sparro 2s 6d to 2s 6jd. . Wben all is sa- , -'. however, Business in oats is doiyowhat restricted, owing to the fliiitculty of securing supplies at what merchants consider a fair basis )f value.

OOIiOMAL DATRY PRODUCE

Messrs W. Weddel and Co. send us their weekly market report, d'ated London, May 5, as follows:— Buttter.— Tills week the weaibhei , has been generally favourable to the pastures, the only dra.w : baek being the. temperature, .which is'below the normal for early May. 'nio market for Australian, aaid New Zealand butter has been rather quieter, the increasing supplies in Irish and British home-made butter being the main reason for this. Of course, in .secondary qualities of colonial, the change is greater, and f>rices are very irregular, ranging rom 84s to 94s per cwt. Some holders of these- goods iaye pressing sales. The choicest finality is down in price on the week aibout 2s, nnd 98s to 100s per owt. is -the market price for best Australian. New Zealand choicest has left the decline and llOjs is no longer available, 108s being top price; the : builk of this quality is now down to 106s to 107s, unsalted choicest New Zealand makes 110s against 112s earlier in the week.

The market for foreign butter is also quiet, though tliere i.s no change in the Danish market. French salt butter is down to 8s per cwt., and is now the same price _as last year at this time. Siberian arrivals aire now, and will be for a, week or two, smaller .than they wero and prices are 98s to 100s for olioicesfc. and 94s 96s for medium.

Ol>eese f —The market for New Zealand is not quite so active. The American imports that have lately appeared on our markets have, no doubt, helped to bring about this quieter feeling; but the stocks of cheese in United Kingdom uiindoubtedly show no cause for the present oondition. The stocks of Canadian in London, Liverpool and Bristol on May 1, of tihis year, were 89,000 ■boxes, against. 114,00Q boxes last year, and stocks of New Zealand were 31,500 crates, against 51,000 last year, the total deficiency being equal to 64,000 boxes of Canadian. Stocks of English cheddar of the quality and price that competes with Canadian and New Zealand are practically exhausted, and are less than for many years. Add to this the increased demand due to higher wages, and more employment, and ■the position of cheese looks sound'. The fodder-made and early "May make of -Canadian will not be so much as last year. Old Canadian is in very small compass, and consequently will be able to meet the requirement' of the trade for ripe and mature cheese. The only article to Tely 'upon is New Zealand. In, our last report the shortage of 5713 tons for the year was by a slip of the pen attributed to New Zealand instead of to colonial.