Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1914, Page 4

Commercial

ALDINGTON MARKET

Christchurch, Feb. 4. Store sheep: Lambs best rape £ sorts, 15s to 15s Gel; extra to lbs 8d; fair sorts, 14s to 14s Gd; med- . iuin, 13s to Ws 9d; small and low- 1 conditioned sorts, lis 3d to 12s (jd ; half-bred wethers, lis 3d to 12s; h small and inferior, ( Js Id; shorn * lambs, 10a lOd; wethers, forward 4 and G-tooth, 18s to 18s 8d; 2 and 4-tooth (good), 16s to 17s; 2-tooth (fair), 15a to 10s; 2-tooth (small), 12s Gd to 14s; ewes, 2-tooth, 18s ' Gd to £1 0s 3d; 4 and G-tooth, to £ 18s lOd; 4- G- and 8-tooth (good), 18s lOd to 19s; good sound-mouth j sorts, 17s 5d to 18s Gd; medium sound-mouth sorts, 15s to IGs, g full and failing-mouth, 13s to 14s; o and aged and cull sorts( 10s to lisFat lambs: Tegs, Us Gd to £1 0s lid; average freezing weights, lGs Gd to 19s; light and unfinished (j 14s 9d to lGs 3d. Fat sheep: Prinie wethers, £1 a Is to £1 3s lOd; others, 17s Gd to c; £1 0s Gd; merino wethers, 14s 10u I to lGs 7d; prime ewes, 19s to ill ] 3e 4d; extra, to £1 5s 3d; medium j 14a 6d to 18a Gd; aged and inferior i 12a lid to 15b. _ 1 Fat cattle: Steers £8 5s to <£11, extra,, to £14 15s; heifers, £G to £10 12s Gd; cows, £6 to £9los. £ Store cattle: Yearlings, £1 15s } to £2 la; 15 to 18-month sorts, £2 j 15s to £4; 2-year steers, £5 l<s Gd; 2-year heifers, £5 15s (extra £ good sorta); 3-year steers, £7 15s; ( 3-year heifers, £4 17s Gd; dry cows £1 10s to £6. Dairy cows made £3 10s to £11 5b Fat pigs: Choppers, £3 to £4 ss; heavy baconers, £3 to £3 10s: lighter, £2 10s to £2 Gil. these prices being equal to 5s to od per lb; heavy porkers, <£2 to £2 7s Gd; lighter, £1 lGs to £2; equivalent to 6|d per lb. OUR PRODUCE AT HOME. ! W. Weddel and Co. send as their weekly market report, dated London, December 24th, :;*3 follows : — Butter—As anticipated the market this week has been of a distinctly holiday cliarac'er I-ml, with buyers fully occupied with the Christmas retail trade, very little business has Transpired Where immediate delivjvy could be guaranteed a few orders were placed at prices ranging from lU*s to HGs for "choicest" Australia!! salted and 114s to litis lor unsalted. Spot stocks of IN en* Zealand are very small and make from 1~~» to 124s per cwt. . From Australia the am -at.' tins week total 46j22G boxes, which compared with the corresponding week last year, shows an increase of 15,112 boxes. Shipments {.fee_same_souixe. _ advised by cable, amount to 44,250 boxes per Orsova, which compared with 44,475 boxes, tho coiri#«ponding period last year, sliou s ' a decrease of 225 boxc*. There is little or no change to report in the foreign butter mai- * ket. Danish arrivals have been cleared and prices are unchanged from last week. The Copenhagen official quotation is unchanged. ' This week's arrival of ArgeiiUn ' is quoted at 114s to llGs for both salted and unsalted. Choicest Siberians make from 110s to 114s, but present stocks mostly eeini prise stored butter, for prices range from 90s to IOGs pei cwt. , i , Cheese. —Although the deuiaitu is not altogether brisk, prints lt- ; main firm and holders show no inclination to press sales. lb a eifect of the recent amendiaeu.s in the American tariff on Canadian . trade is shown by the trade ttutt-- ' ment just issused. Agricultural products exported from Cnuuua, including dairy produce, show an increase for the past month o £1,800,000. Canadian white is quoted here at GGs to 07s, and coloured 67s to GBs with an occasional premium of Is for cheese of dtt-P red colour. The New Zealand quotation of GGs for white and < s for coloured is more or Jess nominal, the quantity on oner being so very small. BURNSIDE MARKET. Prime bullocits £13 to , x^s » medium £11 to £12 10s, light £9 10s to £10 10s; extra prime heifers to £11 17s Gd,.good £9 10s to £11 10s, medium £8 to £9 us, light £0 to £7 10s. Fat sheep.—l62l yarded. Market composed principally of meu--5 ium wethers and ewes. There was very keen competition for all prime ewes and wethers, and ouing to the very small ull "i' J prices showed an advance of Is to Is Gd per head, although light sheep did not. participate in the ■ advance to this extent. Lxtia prime wethers to £1 7s 9d; good £1 4s to £1 Gs; medium, £1 Is to £1 2s Gd; light 1 «s bd to 19s Gd, extra prime ewes £1 <s, best ewes £1 2s to £1 4s >d • | medium ISs to £1, light and inferior 13s lo l<js Gd. Ihere was a very small yarding oi h* ll .' I only 434 coming forward. Ineie I was keen competition tlnoug I and prices were from par to >< 1 above last week's rateß. liest o £1 Os Gd; good IHs to lJs; medium 16s to 17s; light and inferior 13s to 14s 6d. „ 0 , Pigs.—39 fats and '8 * ores were penned. There was keen competition for fats, and P 1 ( , s showed an advance on last. \u>(. \ s rates. Suckers 14s to l<s: slips 19s to £1 3s; stores £1 '* \° ■ porkers £2 7s to £2 15s: liK 1 ronors £2 16s to £3; hoa"v> 0 ° 10s.