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CANTERBURY MARKETS. Chrisucblurch, June 6. The following are current prices paid to farmers, f .o.b.* Lyttelton, and free of commission* except where otherwise specified : Wheat : Hunter’s, Pearl and Tuscan, 3s 9d to 3s 9gd at country stations. Oats. —Long feed, 2s 3d ; short feed oats, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; milling Canadians 2s 6d at country stations. Barley (new) —3s to 3s 3d at country stations. Peas: Partridge, 3s to 3s 6d ; Blue Prussians 5s 6d to 5s 9d at country stations. Flour (millers’ quotations): Roller £lO 10s. Pollard : £5 10s ton. Bran : .£4 10s. Oatmeal : <£ls f.o.b. Oatsheaf chaff: 70s to 75s at country stations. Onions : £5 Os at country stations. Potatoes : Beauty of Hebron and kidneys for forward delivery, 70s to 80s, derwents 62s 6d to 67s 6d at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 4s 3d to 4s 6d, cocksfoot 3|d to 3fd, ryegrass, Italian, town dressed 4s 6d. Dairy Produce; Cheese, factory 4|d to sd, dairy 4d to 4|d ; butter, factory local, Is, North Island Is, dairy 8d to 9d, salt (in boxes) 9d ; bacon, hams, sil to 6|d ; factory bacon and hams, higher, fo.b. STOCK SALES. Christchurch, June 5. At Addington market yesterday 184 fat cattle were yarded, mostly useful sorts, with a few heavy weights. A slightly improved demand for beef from 19s 6d to 24s 6d. Heavy steers, £9 to £ll 10s, others £5 15s to £8 l Os, heifers £5 10s to £8 10s, cows £4 17s 6d to £8 15s for extra heavy. Fat Sheep —Over 6000, mostly ewes, with a few good lines of freezing wethers. Freezing wethers and secondary ewes easier, but prime sorts in good demand for the local trade. Prime heavy wethers, 18s 9d to 19s 9d, freezers 16s to 18s 6d, lighter 14s 10c! t > 15s 61, prime ewes 16s to 17s 1 Id, freezers 10s 6d to 15s, inferior down to 7s 6d. A line of 133 North Island wethers was taken by butchers at 15s 9 1 t ' 18s id, and 180 fell to a grazier at 14s 10d to 15s. Fat Lambs numbered 1100, mostly unti.ni.shed sorts Freezers made 10s 3d to I2f Bd, inferior 8s to 9s 101. Store Sheep—Over 4600. Wethers made 10s 2d to lls 3d and 13s, 947 2 and 4-tooths from Marlborough being passed at lls 4d. In ewes large lines of 6 and 8-tooth halfbreds in lamb sold at lls 41 to lls 6d, and 2 and 4 tooths at I2>, aged sorts 2s, 4s Bd, 5s 10d, and smnd mouthed 10s 9d, Pigs —Only 300, and the scarcity caused improvement in all classes. Baconers 35s to 45s- to 3_|d per lb, porkers 20s to 31s —4cl, stores 10s to 235, suckers and weaners 4s to 6s 6d. Dunedin, June 5. Only 157 fat castle were yarded at Burnside yesterday. Best bull »cks £9 15s to £ll, medium L 7 2s 6d to L 8 10s best cows and heifers L 6 7s 6d to L 8 12s 6d, medium L 5 to L 5 15s, light and aged 76s to 97s 6d. Fat sheep : About 2340 penned.jßest -’ethers 16s 9d to 18s 9d, extra heavy I, P to 21s 9d, medium 13s 9d t > 15< 61, 6d-to 12s 9d, best ewe- 13~bd 10s 13s, met 3s. came

maud. Porkers, 265. to 34s ; baconers, 36s to 48s ; a few heavy pigs up to 555. Messrs Freeman R. -Jackson and Co, (m conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams), repqrt that at their sale at Johnsonville, near Wellington on Friday last as' follows. —We had a short supply of cattle, consisting of prime arid medium bullocks, with a pen of forward stores. Beef made from 22s to 23s per 1001 b. We quote: — Best bullocks £9 to £9 12s 6d, others £8 to £8 15s and £7 7s 6d. A full yarding of speep sold at the same prices as last week. Prime ewes Us lOd, good ewes 10s 6d to 10s lid, medium ewes 9s 3d, stores 7s 3d, forward wethers 10s, small lambs 7s sd. No pigs were yarded. Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co. have received the following wool market cablegram from their London house, Messrs Sanderson, Murray and Co,, dated 31st May : —Sales have closed with rates practically unchang ed. During the last few days the market has been irregular. Compared with the highest point of the series, market is weaker. Compared with opening rates, merino, fine crossbred and scouted crossbred advanced 2| to 5 per cent. Greasy crossbred, coaise to medium, shows no change. The number of bales held over is 18,000. The following are the latest prices for stock quoted m Melbourne : —Prime pens of bullocks from LI 3 to LI 4 15s, extra prime and heavy do from LI 7 5s to LIB, good do. do. from LlO 5s to LI2, good light and handy weights from L 8 15s to L 9 15s, middling do. from L 7 to LB, inferior and steers from L 5, prime pens of cows from L 8 to L 9 15s, odd beasts from LlO 10s to LI4, good do. from L 6 10 s to L 7 10s, others from L 4 10s Laery and Co., Ltd., report the following wholesale selling prices on the Wellington produce market Wheat (fowls’), 3s 9.1 t ) 3s 11 d per bushel, feed oats 3s 2d, barley 3s 6*l, rye corn 4s, maize 4s, flour £ll per ton, pollard 135 s per ton, bran 115 s per ton, oatmeal £l4 per t >n, oatsheaf chaff, £5 per ton, Canterbury hay £4 10s per ton, partridge peas 4s, horse beans 4« 3d per bushel, cocksfoot seed dressed 4|d to 4|d, farmer.-/ parcels, 3d to 3|d per lb, potatoes £4 10s per ton, seed potatoes Beauty of Hebron, Early R >se Up-to-date, all at 1 00s, Poach Blossom, Victory, Vermont.-, all at 955, onions £7 per ton, dairy butter lOd per lb, cheese factory, bacon best factory hams 7|d, rolls 7|d, fowls 2s 6d to 3s 3d per pair, ducks 3s to 4s per pair, turkeys, hens 8s per pair, -gobblers 9s to 11s per pair, geese 5s per pair, fresh eggs 2s 6d, limed eggs Is 3d per dozen, cabbages 2s to 4s a sack, cauliflowers 6s to IQs 6d a sack, pumpkins £2 per ton. marrows 2s 6d to 3s 6d a sack, cooking apples 2s to 4s per 401 b case, dessert apples 4s to 7s per 401 b case, carrots 40s, swedes 40s per ton, wild ducks 3s 6d to 4s per pair, quail Is 3d per brace, pigeons 2s' 6d per pair, pheasants 7s 6d per brace, hares Is 6d to 2s each.