COMMERCIAL.

Motueka Star, Volume I, Issue 23, 29 October 1901, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Christchurch, Oct 24.

The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified :

Wheat : Hunter’s pearl and velvet, 2s 5d to 2s 6d, and Tuscan 2s 6d f.o.b.

Oats: Milling 2s 4d to 2s sd, short feed 2s 3d to 2s. 4d, duns and Danish, 2s 2d to 2s 2|d, f.o.b.

Barley : (nominal) malting 2s 3d to 2s 6d, secondary Is 8d to Is lOd at country stations. Beans : 2s 8d to 2s 9d, f.o.b. Peas : (nominal). Flour (millers’ quotations) : Boiler, .£6 15s.

Sharps : £4. Bran : £3 10s. Oatmeal : £l3 f.o.b. Oatsheaf chaff —35 s 40s at near country stations.

Hay: £2 10s to £2 15s delivered ;

Grass Seed—Ryegrass,.farmers’ lots, Is 9d to 2s, prime heavy, toAvn dressed 2s 6d to 3s, cocksfoot to 2jd, town machine-dressed, 161 b to 171 b old seed 3|d to 3fd, f.0.b., eowgrass 6d to 6fd, extra choice 7d, white clover 6d to Bd, delivered.

Dairy Produce; Cheese, factory 4.1 d to sd, dairy 4d ; butter, factory, local, lid, North Island lOd, dairy 9dto lOd, salt (inboxes) 8d ; bacon, hams, 6d to 6.1 d ; factory bacon and hams higher, fo.b.

STOCK SALES. Christchurch Oct 25. At Addington market to-day there were small entries.

Fat cattle—l 22 head, mostly prime steers, met good sale, last week’s rates being fully upheld. Prime bullocks, <£l2 to £l3 17s 6d, good steers £9 to £2l, others £7 5s to £8 10s; heifers £5 10s to £7 10s; cows £5 5s to £B. Store cattle—loo, dull sale. Calves 13s, fifteen to eighteen months 30s to 535, two year steers 82s 6d, do. heifers £3 17s 6d to £3 19s 6d : three year heifers £5 to £7 6s, dry cows 40s to 82s 6d.

Dairy cows—good demand for best at £7 to £9, others, weak £4 5s to £6 10s.

Fat sheep—A mixed yarding of 300 f \ The market was dull, except the primemerino. Heavy" erossbred wethers 19s to 20s, others 15s 6d to 18s, shorn 13s lOd to 16s 9d, extra prime heavy ewes 19s to 21s 9d, good 16s to 18s 6d, others 14s Id to 15s 6d, shorn 10s to 13s sd, and-up to 14s lOd for extra prime, prime merino wethers 18s to 21s Id, others 15s 4d to 17s 6d.

Fat lambs—lßß, mostly good. All were taken, butchers’ best at 15s to 17s, others 12s 6d to 14s 6d.

Store sheep—lß64, mostly ewes with lambs. There was a pool' sale, and more than half were passed. A few wethers sold at 13s 9d to 14s 6d, shorn 12s; hoggets 12s 9d to 13s sd, shorn 6s; sound mouthed ewes with 100 per cent, lamb 7s 6d all counted. Pigs-—350. Improved demand for fats. Baconers, 38s to 52s 6d, equal to 3fd per lb ; porkers 24s to 325, equal to 4d; stores, mostly small, in great request at 10s to 15s; suckers and weaners 6s to 8s 6d.

FARM aitd DAIRY PRODUCE. Laery and Co., Limited, report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market:— Wheat, 3s Id per bushel; oats, 2s 7d to 2s 8d per bushel; seed, 2s 9d per bushel; barley, 2s 3d per bushel ; maize 3s Id per bushel.; pollard, £4 15s per bushel ; bran, £4 10s per ton ; chaff, £3 10s per ton; hay, £4 10s per ton; partridge peas, 4s 3d per bushel;

potatoes, £4 15s to L 5 5s per ton; seed potatoes, £4 10s to £5 per ton; onions, American, LlB per ton; butter, choice 9d pe? lb, medium 8d per lb; bacon, 6| per lb; bams, 7fd per lb; fowls, 4s to 5s per pair; ducks, 5s to 6s per pair; turkeys, 7s to 32s per pair; geese, 5s 6d to 6s per'pair; fresh eggs, 9d to lOd swedes, 30s per ton; carrots, 40s per ton; cabbages, Is 6d to 4s 6d per sack; cauliflowers, Is 6d to 5s per sack; lettice, Is to Is 6d per dozen; celery, Is to 2s per dozen; parsnips, 2s to 3s per sack; rhubarb, 2s 6d to 5s 6d per dozen.

A mob of fat bullocks from Riversleigh station, near the South Australian border, recently put through the Alligator Creek Meat Works, gave an average weight of 7581b5, the heaviest beast weighing 11561b5.