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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 62, 18 March 1902, Page 4

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CANTERBURY MARKETS. GHKxsxcaatrECH, Miir. 13. The following are current pi-Ices, paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lytteiton, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified : Wheat: Prime milling, Tuscan 3s Id to 3s 2d ; Hunter's pearl and velvet 3s Id to 3s 2d ; new 2s lOd to 3s at country stations. New oats.—Long feed, 2s o=|d ; short feed, 2s Id, in small bags ; milling Canadians 2s 2d to 2s 3d at country stations. Barley (new) —3s to 3s 3d at country stations. Beans : 2s 8d to 2s 9d, f.o.b. Peas: Partridge, 2s 9d ; Blue Prussians 3s 3d at country stations. Flour (millers' quotations): Roller .£8 10s. Sharps : £4k 5s Pollard : £4= 5s per ton. Bran : .£3 15s. Oatmeal : <£l3 f.o.b. Hay: £2 10s to .£2 15s delivered. Oatsheaf chaff": • 47s 6d to 50s at country stations. Onions : .£3 at; country stations: Potatoes : Beauty of Hebron ,= 355, kidneys 40s, derwents for forward delivery, 30s at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 4s 3d to 4s 6d, cocksfoot, 3d to 3.Jd, ryegrass, Italian, town dressed 4s (3d. Dairy Produce; Cheese, factory 4tl to 4|d, dairy 3|d to 4d ; butter, factory local, lid, North Island lOd, dairyßdto 9d, salt (in boxes) 8d ; bacon, hams, 5d to 6gd ; factory bacon and hams, id higher, fo.b. STOCK SALES. At Addington on Thursday the fat cattle yarded numbered 146, mostly mixed sorts. Prices were firmer by is 6d per 1001 b, reaching 17s 6d and* 22s 6d. Steers L 6 5s to L 9 7s 6 i, heifers L 5 10s to L 8 7s 6d, cows L 5 15s to LB. Sheep : 3500 including goad lines of North Island ewes and wethei s. Sheep fit for export maintained late 1.-ites, 15s to 17s Id, unfinished wetheis 14s to 14s 9d. There was a good demand for best ewes at 12s to 14s 9d and up to 15s 9d for extra ; secondary sorts easier 8s to lis ; inferior were almost unsaleable at 4s 6d to 7s 6d. Fat lambs . 2400 including many unfinished, and only the primeist upheld late prices. Exporters took 1528 at 10s 6d to 13s 6d ; butchers, 166' at 10s to 23s 9d ; grazieas, 270 at 8s 6d to 9s 4d ; 436 were passed at 8s 3d to 12s 3d* Storn sheep—l2,6l6. All classes met improved demand, owing to iniproved feed yrospeets after late rains. Forward wethers, lis 9d to 13s Id ; others, 7s 6d to lis 2d ; good ewes, lis to-12s 6d ; full-mouthed, 6s Id po 9s lOd ; aged, 2s lOd to 3s 6d ; mixed wethers and ewes, "9s lOd 'to lis 2d ; forward lambs, 8s 6d to 9s lid ; others, 5s 6d to 7s 3d ; poor merino wethers, 3s ; merino ewes, 6s 6d ; and aged stores, 2s 6d to 3s. Pigs—4so, including a lot of unfinished fats. There was irregular sale. Nearly 100 large stores were Sought for Dunedin. Baconers, 32s 6d to 565, equal to 3gd per lb ; porkers, 20s to 30s, equal to 3|d per lb ; large stores, 17s to 23s ; smaller, 8s to 12s ; suckers, 4s to 7s. A line of 500 wethers and ewes from Waipukurau (Hawke's Bay) made 1 5s 8d to 16s 7d for the wethers, and lis 6d to 14s 9d for the ewes. DUNEDIN, Maich 12. At Burnside to-day 131 fat cattle were yarded. Prices ruled at last ■week's quotations. Best bullocks, L 9 to L 1 0; medium, L 7 5s to L 8 15; others, L 6 7s 6d to L 7 2s 6d-: best cows aad heifers,. L 6 to L 7 2s ; medium, L 5

to L 5 15s ; others, L 3 15s to £4 17s 6d. Fcit sheep—ll 22. Competition was fairly keen, and prices about Is per head better than, last week. Best wethers, 13sto 14s 9d ; medium, lis to 12s 9d ; best ewes, 10s to lis 6d ; others, 8s to 9s 9d Lambs— 507. The best sold at 10s 3d to lis 6d ; extra, lis 3d ; medium, 9s to 10s.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co (in^conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams) report that at their fcale at John son ville, near "Wellington, on Friday as follows :—The entry of beasts at Johnsonville, with the exception of a few pans, c insisted of medum to very lignt bullocks. Best bullocks made £8 7s fid to ,£8 15s ; others, £7 15s to £8 5s ; light bullocks, .£6 10s to £7 ss, averaging 20s to 21s per 1001 b. A large entry of sheep of inferior quality met a poor demand. Medium ewes made 8s 8d to 9s 8d ; others, 7s to 7s 6d ; stoi e ewes, 2s; wethers, 10s 8d to lis 5d ;*■ forward wethers, 9s 2d to 9s 7d ; store wethers, 8s ; lambs, 10s 2d ; store lambs, 4s to 4s Id. —o PRODUCE REPORT. AUCKLAND, March 13. Oats are in strong demand this week, and the local market is bare. Canterbury speculative buyers have unsuccessfully tried to buy in the Auckland market. Business has been done for April and May delivery at 2s s|d and 2s 6d. .fi-esent rates are 3s to 3s Id, c.i.f ; local dun" 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Wheat remains firm at the following rates : Fowl wheat, 3s 7d ; Southern milling, 2s lid to 3s. Flour shows no change this week, quotations being L 8 10s to L 8 15s. Bran and sharps are in lair demand. Bron, L 4 5s ; sharps, L 4 15s A good demand exists for good potatoes, but inferior kinds are dull of sale. Derwents, L 3 5s to L 3 10s. Maize —Arrivals this week totalled 1000 sacks. Lines on the wharf sold freely at 2s 4d, with a good demand for South. Onions are plentiful at local 6s to 6s 6d per cwt. Eggs have been unusually scarce, and the price advanced from Is Is 3d wholesale. The butter marletis unaltered; Dairy Association Is per lb ; factory, lid to Is; separator 8d ; dairy, 7d. The glut in the fruit market is oveiyV and betterprices rule in all lines but apples.