COMMERCIAL.
Christchurch, Oct 31
The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified : Wheat : Hunter’s, and Tuscan, 4s to 4s Id, Pearl 4s Id to 4s 2d at country stations. - Oats.—Long feed 2s sdto 2s 6d ; short feed 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; milling Canadians 2s 7d to 2s 8d at country stations. Barley, nominal —Prime 3s, feed 2s 7d at country stations.
Flour (millers’ quotations): Roller £lO 10s. Pollard : £5 10s ton. Bran : £5 10s. Oatmeal : £l4 f.o.b. Oatsbeaf chaff: 85s per ton at country stations. Potatoes : Derwents, B 3 15s Od at country stations.
Grass Seed —Ryegrass, prime heavy town dressed 4s 3d to 4s to 4|d, dressed 4s 6d.
Daily Produce; Cheese, factory 5d to s |d, dairy 4|d to s cl; butter, factory local, 11 Id, North Island lid, dairy 10d, salt (in 9d ; bacon, hams 7 iTTTTD'Bgd ; factory bacon and hams, |d higher, fo.b. —Christchurch Press. STOCK SALES. Christchurch, October 29. At Addington to-day there were fair entries, and brisk business was done, especially in the fat classes. Fat Cattle.—l 72, mostly good to prime -beef, the best ruling at 35s to 37s fid, and others 32s 6d to 34s 6d. Prime steers. .£ll to .£l4 12s 6d ; others, .£7 to £lO 10s, heifers £7 to £lO 7s 6d, prime cows £9 to £ll 10s, others £5 5s to £B. Store Cattle—-250, and a good sale. Yearlings, 20 sto 27s 6d ; 15 to 18 months, £3 to £3 17s 6d ; two-year-steers. £5 IQs to £5 11s; heifers, £4 10s to £4 17s 6d, three-year steers £6 10s to B 7 ss, heifers B 5 Us, diycows, LI 15s to B 4 ; dairy cows, L 4 to L 9 5s Fat Sheep—s2ooo, including a few prime Heavy consignments of wethers and ewes in wool and shorn. Prime heavy sheep sold at last week’s quotations. cut freezers showed an advance. Prime heavy wethers, 24s to 28s; freezers, 19s to 23s ; light and unfinished, 15s fid to 17s fid ; best shorn wethers, 17s to 21s 3d to 24s for extra ; lighter 15s to 16s fid ; prime heavy ewes, 20s to 24s ; good 16s to 19s 6d ; others, 10s lOd to 15s 6d ; best shorn ewes, 14s to 19s 6d ; others, 11s to 13s 6d ; hoggets, 15s 6d to 19s : merino wethers, 15s to 21s fid.
Fat Lambs. —229, the best selling well at 16s to 17s 2d for freezing up to 20s fid for extrr, and 9s fid to 14s fid for inferior.
Store Sheep. — 936, mostly wethers, which sold well, woollies making 16s lOd, and shorn, 14s Id ; ewes and lambs, 7s to 8s 3d to 8s lOd, all counted ; a few hoggets brought 9s 2d. Pigs.—293. There was a strong demand and an advance in prices for all sorts. Baconsrs, 45s to 70f, equal to 5d bo s|d per lb ; porkers, 28s to 40s, equal to 6d to 6|d per lb; large stores, 18s to 25s fid ; smaller, I2s fid to 17s fid ; suckers and weaners, 6s to 12s. Messffs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction with Messrs Ab’&lam and Williams, report on their stock sale at Johnsonville on Tuesday last as follows:—Owing to damage to the if. i ay line bullocks were in very short supply, and met a keen market. We quoto :—Beef 31s to 32s per 1001 b ; best bullocks made £ll 15s. aud £ll 12s 6d ; others, £9 to £lO 8s 6d. A
small yarding of sheep sold freely. Good ewes, 16s 9dy others, 14s 3d to 14s 9d ; store shorn wethers, 10s to 10s 3d ; lambs, 10s Id to 11s 9d.
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Motueka Star, Volume III, Issue 128, 4 November 1902, Page 4
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