COMMERCIAL.

Motueka Star, Volume IV, Issue 166, 24 March 1903, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Christchurch, Mar 20. The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.h., Lyttelton, and free ©f commission, except where otherwise specified : Wheat, new, 4s to 4s Id at country stations. Oats.—[new} Milling, Is 104 ; short feed Is 8d , Duns, Is 5d to Is 60 ; Danish Is 5d to Is 61 at .country stations. Barley : Prime malting, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; Cape, 2s 6d to 2s B<l, at c untry stations. Flour (millers’ quotations): Rol’er Xll. Pollard : £7 ton. Bran: £5 Os. Oatmeal: XII lOs f .o.b. Ryegrass Well dressed farmers' parcels, 2s 6d to 2s 9d, inferior 2s to 2s 3d, Italian ryegrass 3s to 3.-. 6<l, cocksfoot 3gd to 4d per lb delivered. Onions, X 4 ton delivered. Potatoes, Early varieties, L2 ICs to L2 15s ton at. country stations ' Dairy Produce; Cheese., factory 5\ d to 6d, dairy 5d ; butter, factory, local 1 04d per lb, North Island lid, dairy, 8d to 9d prime, salt (in boxes) to B§d, bacon, hams 9d to lOd ; factory bacon and hams |d higher, fo.b.—Chiistchurch Press. WELLINGTON PRODUCE REPORT. Wheat-,4s 9d to 5s bushel, oats 2s 2d to 2s 9d, barley 3s lOd, maize 5s per bushel, flour N.Z., -Xl2, Adelaide XI3 Manitoban Xl2 15s, pollard, 160 s, bran 130 s ton, oatmeal XI4 ton, onions, prime X 7 os, cheese lb, bacon Bfd for sides, 9}d for rolls, hams, 9}d, butter 7d to Bd, fowls 3s to 3s 6d per pair, ducks 4s per pair turkeys hens 8s to 9s, gobblers 11s to 13s, eggs Is 3d to Is 6d doz.; cabbages Is 6 1 to 2s Od per sack ; cauliflowers 2s 6d to 4s 6d ; rhubarb Is to 2s dozen new potatoes X 3 10stoX3 15s ; linseed cake L 9 10s per ton; cocksfoot und)e.>se<l 3d to 4d lb, machine dressed 5} to s|d, ryegrass 4s to 5s 3d bushel, partridge peas 4s bushel, oatsheaf chaff 70s to 75s per ton.

STOCK SALES.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co., in conjunction with Messrs Abraham and Williams, report on their sale at Johnsonville on Thursday last as follows :—A full yarding of bullocks, mostly of prime quality. Bidding whs brisk throughput. Beef made 23s to 23s 6d ; best bullocks X 9 10s to LlO ; others L 8 10s to L 9 ss. A good yarding of sheep sold freely. Prime ewes 11s 9d to 12s ; others 9s 4d to 9s 6d ; light 8s 2d to 9s; light wethers 12s 5d lambs 9s lid ; stores 7s Id. Christchurch, March 18.

The entry at Addington saleyards qnday constituted a record as far as sheep were concerned, the total yarding, which it is estimated closely.approached 40,000 being considerably more than the highest numbers previously reached. There was a large attendance of buyers and notwitnstanding the great entry the prices realised were good. Fat cattle. 301 head we-e yarded, principally heifers. Steers L 6 10s to LlO 17s 6d ; extra prime LI 210 s; heifers L 5 17s 6d to L 9 10s; cows L 5 5s to L 9 ss. Beef 25s to 28s per 1 OOlbs. Fat sheep. The large entry comprised a large proportion of ewes and wethers in good condition, and for these there was keen demand throughout the sale, buyers for export operating freely. Existing rates were maintained and comparatively few lots were passed. Inferior lots were hard to quit. Freezing wethers realised from 15s 7d to 18s 9d ; wethers and maiden ewes 15s 6d to 16s Td ; freezing ewes; 11s to 14s 6d ; best butchers ewes 14s

to 16s lOd ; extra heavy IJslOdtp 18s 78 others brought 9s to 13s. Fat lambs. The entry, which was a large one, comprised a good proportion of first class quality, which met with spirited competition, and last week’s rates were fully maintained. Prime freezers realised from 13s to 15s 6rl ; tegs, 10s to 17s lOd ; butchers lots, 11s to 15s.

Store sheep. £4,298 were yarded, including large quantities from the north of this island and also a fair proportion from the Chatham Islands. Tile bulk of the yarding comprised e"e< of mixed quality, wethers apd h-.mbs being also plentiful. Despite the abnormal yarding existing prices were fairly maintained, and although a large number of medium and poor quality lots were passed, all first class sheep met with a keen demand, excepting towards the close of the sale, when business dragged materially.

Pigs.—There was c better yarding than last week, and the pens contained a number of baconers and porkers showing fine quality. For these very keen competition prevailed and past prices were more than maintained. Baconers brought from 55s to 755, equal to from 5d to sid per lb; porkers, from 44s to 52s 6d, equal to- sgd to 6d ; .-tores 25s to 355, suckers and weaners 9s to 1 7s.