COMMERCE AND MINING

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8350, 10 February 1913, Page 4

COMMERCE AND MINING

MINING QUOTATIONS Press Association. AUCKLAND, SVbruarv 8. Sales at this morning's call on. the Stock Exchange: Waiotahi, 2s 2d. UAihi, 3-is 3d, 345. New Zealand Portland Cement, 19s 9d. E. W. B. HornabPook, 153. Featherston street. Wellington, member Stock Exchange Specialising iu Mining £rrip. Trustworthy Correspondence irom all Mining Centres. Telegraphic address; “Hornabrook. Wei* ling ton. DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. Press Association. DUNEDIN, February 9. The following sales were reported on the Stock Exchange yesterday:—New Zealand Insurance -Ho, National Bank A'6 2s (two parcels). (Received February 9, 5.5 p.m-) LONDON, February 9FROZEN MEAT MARKET. The Incorporated Society of Meat Importers’ Smithfield market quotations tor the undermentioned classes of frozen meat are based on actual sales of not less than one hundred carcases of mutton or lamb or twenty-five quarters ol beef of fair average quality. The quotations are not for selected lines, but tor parcels fairly representative of the hoik of the shipments now on the market. The prices which follow are on the average a farthing per lb more than the values ex ship, this difference representing an average cost in expense, handling, conveyance and selling the meat. Fob. 1- Feb. 8.

RABBITS. The market is quiet and prices unchanged. New South Wales blues 20s 6d. SOUTHERN GRAIN MARKETS Press "Association. OAMARU. February 9. Owing to tho harvest there have been few transactions in grain during , tfio week. 1 The business that has taken place in wheat has been mostly ex store. Velvets have been quitted at equal to 3s 8d net on trucks at country stations. Red Tuscan was sold at 3s 7d at a country station lesa commission. It cannot yet be said at what figure new wheat .will open, and as there is a wide difference in the quality of samples submitted, there will also be a difference iu the prices offered. Some are very good, while others are pinched and poor owing to the unfavourable season in certain parts- ■ Little or no business has been done in oats. B grade Gartens have changed hands at 2s, lees commission, on trucks. The new oats also show wide difference in quality. Early-sown Gartons aro good, but spring-sown generally are not so good. Algerians are fair. Some old oat sheaf chaff has sold at J!3 net on trucks. LIVE STOCK SALES AUCTIONEERS’ REPORTS, Dalgety and Co., Ltd. At Wanganui there was a fair yarding, comprising 4100 sheep and 120 head cattle. The bulk of tho sheep yarded consisted of old ewes. Prices: Medium fat lambs 11s, 2-tooth wethers (small) 12s, 2-tooth ewes 14s Id, mixed 2-tooths 11s 4d, lambs 6s 6d to 6s lOd, small woolly lambs 5s sd, cull lambs Is lOd, four and five-year ewes 10s lOd to 12s 3d, f.m. ewes 7s 4d to 8s Id, aged rams 17s, old ewes 4s Id. Light fat bullocks £7 10s, two-year steers JJ4 16s, eighteen-month to two-year steers A 3 7s to A 3 13s, weaner heifers 32s 6d, yearling heifers A2, yearling to eighteen-month heifers A 3 KJs, old cows in milk A 4 to A 4 17s, cows and calves A 3 17a. At Waverley 1600 sheep and 100 head cattle came forward. Competition was keen. Prices: s.m. ewes 8s 4d, three, four, and five-year, ewes (bush) 11s 9d to 12s Id, f.m. ewes 7s 2d, mixed tivotooth (down cross) 13s, forward empty cows A 4 10s, dairy cows A 7 10s to AB, heifers in calf A 4 ss, eighteen-month steers A 3 12s 6d. A. H. Atkinson and Co., Ltd. At Feilding there wore small entries of pigs and poultry owing to show week. A good supply of fruit was marketed. Prices: Slips 8s to 9s, stores 18s to 255, porkers 21s 3d to 31s, p.b. Berkshire boar A2. Old hens and cockerels to 2s 9d. Potatoes 8s to 9s cwt. Peaches 3s 6d to 4s 6d, nectarines 3s 6d to 4s 6d, pears 3s to 4s, apples cooking Is Gd to 2s, plums Is 6d to 3s, all at per half case. WELLINGTON CUSTOMS Tho Customs revenue and beer duty collected at Wellington during the past week totalled respectively A2ti,262 7s lid and A 220 Bs, Saturday's Customs return amounted to A 2146 4s 7d.

d. d. Afutton— Canterbury, light Canterbury, medium .... * - Canterbury, heavy * Southland - North Island, best ...... North Island, ordinary... 9 4SNew Zealand, ewes * * Australian, light * 9 Australian, heavy * . • Australian, ewes 3 9-16 3.J Kiver Plate, heavy 4f Kiver Plate, ewes * V '■ Lamb— ' Canterbury, light 5J Canterbury, medium ... 9 * Canterbury, heavy * Southland North Island, best - *. North Island, ordinary * Australian, best 5 7-16 5$ Australian, fair 64 , 54 Australian, inferior 4* a Kiver Plate, best * 9 • Eiver Plate, seconds ... • 9 Frozen Beef — Now Zealand, fores • # New Zealand, hinds 31 Sf Australian, ewes . * • Australian, fores 31-16 31-16 Australian, hinds m m Kiver Plate, fores * * Kiver Plate, hinds . * * Chilled Beef— Kiver Plate, fores 3i 3} Kiver Plate, hinds ......... 4* ;■ H *Nono offering.