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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 76, 6 May 1902, Page 4

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CANTERBURY MARKETS. Christchurch, May 1. The following are current prices' paid to farmers,, f.0.b., Lyttelton; and free of com mission, fedept where otherwise specified : , • WTieat : Hunter’s, Pearl and -Tuscan, 4s at country stations; Oats. —-Long feed, 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; short feed oats, 2s ,3d ; 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, 3s to 3s 3d ; Blue Prussians 5s to 5s 6d at country stations. Flour (millers’ quotations): Roller £lO 10s. Pollard : £5 10s ton. Bran : £4 10s. Oatmeal : £l4 f.o.b. Hay: £2 10s to £2 15s delivered. Oatsheaf chaff: 55s to 60s at country stations. Onions : £5 to. £5 5s at country stations. Potatoes : Beauty of Hebron, 50s, kidneys 50s, derwents for forward delivery, 70s to 75s at country stations. Grass Seed —Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 4s 3d to 4s 6d, cocksfoot 3j|d to 3f'd, ryegrass, Italian, town dressed 4s 6d. I airy Produce; Cheese, factory 4d to 4gd, dairy 4d ; butter, factory local, lid, North Island lid, dairyßdto 9d, salt (in boxes) 8d ; bacon, hams, 5d to 6|d ; factory bacon and hams, gd higher, fo.b. STOCK SALES. Christchurch, April 30th. There was a. good attendance and fair yardings at the Addington market to-day. Cattle—lß9 head yarded. Steers, £6 10s to £9 15s, heifers £5 5s to £7. 17 6d, cows £5 to £8 ss. Per 1001 b prices were 19s to 24s 6d, the last quotation being for very prime store cattle. The large entry was of mixed char: c er and quality, but it met with a go* d sail 1 , the (’em »nd being brisk for everything Nine months old to yearling beasts fttcaed from 22s 6d to 37s 6r, fiftt e * to e’gbteen months £2 6d, two-yi a -(11 steer;s £4 3s 6d to £4 ss, two-year-old heifers £3 Is to £3 12s 6d, three-year-old steers £5, four-year-olds £6 7s 6d, three-year old heifers £4, dry cows 30s to 85s. Fat sheep—The presence of a number of freezing buyers helped to maintain the market during the first hour and a half of the sale, and a rise of 2s per head had to be recot ded during that time, but as wants were supplied and buyers moved off with full purchases, the pr ees receded to last week’s level. Eight hundred North Island fat wethers brought from 1 5s to 17s, some being taken for freezing purposes. Ordinary prime Canterbury wethers fetched from 16s 6d to 16s Bd, extra heavy 18s lOd, freezing ewes 11s to 16s, best butchers ewes 12s 6d to 15s, medium 10s to 12s, inferior from 7s to Qs 6d. Fat lambs, —There were 1574 on offer, but with the exception of a few lots, they were of indifferent quality, and many brought only store prices. Ore thousand four hundred were taken bv freezing buyers at 8s Id to 12s lOd. Tegs fetched 12s 6d to 15s 6d, these being taken for export; butchers’ lambs, 8s 9d to 13s lid. Store sheep.—There were 8202 store sheep in the market, for which there was a good sale, only a few lots being passed. Several lines of Chatham Island sheep were on offer, one line of wethers fetching from 9s 6d to 1 Is 9d. T e entry was made up principally of wethers and lambs. Lambs brought

fes lid to Bs'9d ; wethers, 12« 4d to _l3s'Bd. . - PigS-—Finished baconers sold fairly well up to 48s 6d for an exceptionally good line, ordinary fetching 34s to 44s ; porkers were dull of sale at 18s to 28s, and stores were a drug. There were no outside buyers, so that business? was restricted to local requirements. -Per lb baconers were worth to 3|d, with an occasional advance for extra prime ; porkers, 3id to 3|. Messx-s Freeman R. Jackson and Co' (m conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams) report that at their sale at Johnsonville, near Wellington, on Thursday as follows :—We had an average yarding of cattle, which consisted of prime heavy woights, smaller prime and large unfinished bullocks, with some very prime 'heifers. Ox beef made 21s, with an occasional pen at 22s ; heifer beef, 18s. We quote : Best bullocks, L 9 7s 6d ; others, L 8 15s to L 9 5s ; smaller, prime, L 8 7s 6d to L 8 12s 6d ; prime heifers, L 6 17s 6d to L 7 10s ; others, L 5 5s ; cows, L 4 to L 5 10s. Sheep, in usual supply, were unaltered in prices, medium ewes making 8s Id to 9s 7d, medium wethers 10s to 11s 6d, store ewes 7s Id. No lambs were yarded. A fair line of baconers and porkers made from LI 7s 6d to LI 12s, and 16s to 21s respectively, equal to 3|d and 4d per lb.