COMMERCIAL.

Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 44, 14 January 1902, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY MARKETS. Christchurch, Ja n. 8

The- following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified : Wheat: Prime milling, Tuscan 2sl Od TO 2s lid; Hunter’s pearl and velvet 2s 9d. Oats: Milling 2s 3d to 2s 4d, short feed 2s 3d to 2s 4d, duns 2s 4d to 2s 5d and Danish 2s 2d to 2s 3d. 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) : Roller. £7. Sharps : £4. Bran : <£3 10s. Oatmeal : .£l3 f.o.b. Hay: £2 10 s to £2 15s delivered. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 3s to 3s 6d, cocksfoot 2Jd to 2fd,town machine-dressed 161 b to 171 b old seed 3|d to 3fd f.o.b. Cow grass 6d to fd, extra choice 7d. White clover, 6d to 8d delivered. Dairy Produce ; Cheese, factory 4d to 4Jd, dairy 4d ; butter, factory, local, lid,North Island lOd, dairyßdto 9d, salt (in boxes) 8d bacon, hams, sid to 6|d ; factory bacon and hams ; ;d higher, fo.b. STOCK SALES. At Addington on Friday last. 152 fat cattle, mostly light weight heifers and cows, were yarded. Steers were scarce. The short supply caused improved sale at 17s 6d to 24s per 1001 b. Steers, £6 lOs to £8 10s ; heifers, £5 5s to £8 17s 6d ; cows, £5 To £8 17s 6d. In stores and dairy cows there was a small entry, and little business wa~ lone. Fat Cattle —About 4000, mostly ewes of poor quality, with some nice lines of freezing wethers. Expoiters secured about 800 at 14s to 15.', a few prime to butchers were up to 16s 3d ; unfinished to graziers, 13s to 13s 9d ; best ewes, 14s to 15s 6d ; medium. 1 Is fid to 13s 6d ; inferioi, 8s 9d to 10s ; merino wethers, 10s to 13s 4d. fiat lambs —335, fair quality. There was better sale, over 2000 being sold for export at 12s 6d to 14s 5d ; extra prime, up to 15s 3d ; unfinished, 10s 9d to 11s 6d.

Store sheep—s2oo, mostly lambs, -which were in demand for rape, nearly all selling at 10s 5d to lls 6d ; wethers in the wool, 13s; out of wool, 12s 5d ; ewes with lambs, 6s to 7s ; all counted.

Pigs —500, including prime baconers. which met better sales, realising 35s to 45s for light, and up to 53s for heavy; porkers, 22s to 325; stores, 12s to 20s ; suckers and weaners, 5s to 10s.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. in conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams) report that at their sale at Johnsonville, near Wellington, on Friday last, as follows:—An average entry of beef met a good demand. Best bullocks sold up to L 8 10s, averaging 21s per 1001 b ; lighter and unfinished sorts, L 7 10s to L 7 17 6d. A few pens of cows made from L 4 1 5s to L 5 17s 6d. Good ewes, 9s 5d to 9s lOd ; medium ewes,Bs 8d to 8s lid ; light Lmbs, 7s to 8s; two tooth wethers, 6s lid. "

FARM asd DAIRY PRODUCE. Messrs Laery and Co., Ltd., report the-following wholesale prices on the Wellington produce market:—Wheat, fid per bushel; oats, 2s lid to 3s per bushel ; barley, fowls, 2s fid per bushel ; «ftizß.-,3s bushel; flour, £7 15s per ton ; Tpbkvil, per ton ; bran, 90s per tpn ;

oatmeal, £l3 10s per ton ; chaff, 70s per ton ; potatoes, new round, £5 per ton ; kidneys, £5 to :£6 -per- tori:

onions, £7 per ton ; ryegrass seed, 3s to 4s per bushel; cocksfoot seed, 1 3d to 3fd per lb ; butter, dairy, 7d to 8d lb; factory, 6d to, 7d ; cheese, factory 5d ; bacon factory, 6fd‘ hams, 7gd per lb; fowls, 3 s per pair ; roosters ; 3s 6d per pair ; ducks, 4s to 5s per pair ; turkeys, hens 7s per pair, "gobblers 9s to 13s per pair : geese, 5s to 5s 6d per pair; hen eggs, 9d ; cabbages, Is fid to 2s 6d per sack.