DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2896, 15 September 1909, Page 21

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

•WHOI.B3AXB PRODUCE REPORTS. arfr J. Fleming, Princes street south, reports -under date the 14th inst. : —

Good potatoes, £3 8s to £3 15s per ion. 'The farmers ought to class the potatoes before sending them to market. Keep out the green and small ones. Potatoes free from blight are very scarce. TABU AND DAIRT PEODtTCI. Messrs Irvine and Stevenson, George street. -report paying 'for produce during the week -ending the 14th inst. as follows: — Bacon (roll), 8d per lb Fresh butter, d to iun, 8d per lb 9d per lb .Fresh eggs, lid doz Salt butter : not buyiiig Fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and Jib -prints), 8d to' lOd per lb. Pigs, 130!b to 1601b, 4Jd. Honey, 3jd. Fowls, 3s to 3s 6d .<boiling). "HIGH COMMISSIONER'S CABLEGRAM. WELLINGTON, September 13. Tha High Commissioner cabled from tfipndon on the 11th met.: — Mutton. — Market firmer. Greatly .affected" by the reports of .small shipments. There is good demand for all qualities. Holders are not anxious to 6ell. Canter•bury is quoted at 3id; North Island. 3d. .Lamb. — The market has advanced, and a further rise is probable on account of the advance of mutton, although the stock is heavy for so late in the season. Canterbury brands, 3£d; North Island. 3id. ; JJeef. — Market quiet, with a tendency In favour of buyers. Supplies of River Plate beef are heavy. New Zealand hinds, 34d; fores, 2|d. Butter. — Market firm. The demand is fchiefly for the best quajity. Australian tpitter has arrived ana ig seUityg at 112s

for salted and 114s for unsalted. Danish 1203, Siberian 104s. Cheese.^— Small business doing, and a slight fall in prices all round. New Zealand, 58s; Canadian, 575. Hemp. — Marke<t quiet, but steady. Transactions are light. New Zealand good fair grade, on spot, £24 15s; fair current Manila, on spot, per ton, £24 10a October-December shipments, NewZealand good fair grade, £25; fair grade, £24; fair current Manila, £23. The Manila output is 24,000 bales. Wool. — Market firm. A good demand 13 expected for coarse crossbreds of all grades. Thirty-sixes, low crossbreds, Is O^d to le Of d ; forty-fours,, medium do, Is 2d; fifties, halfbreds, Is 7d; fifty-sixes, quarterbreds, Is 10£ d; sixties, merinos, 2s 3£d. Wheat.— The market has declined further on account of English offerings. New Zealand long-berried wheat, on spot, ex granary, per quarter of 4961b, 39s 6d ; short-berried, do, 395. Oats. — Large supply. Market weak and inactive. New Zealand oats, short sparrowbills, ex granary, on spot, per quarter of 3841b, 25s 6d. Beans.— Fair demand for bettor grades, but supplies are increasing and prices declining. New Zealand beans, f.a.q " per 5041b, 35s 6d. Peas. — Market quiet but steady. It is affected- by the exportation of heavy arrivals, -and the English new crop. New Zealand peas, partridge, per 504Jb, 42s 6d. The River Plate shipments received during August were : —London : Mutton, 154,140 carcases; lamb, 21,453. Liverpool: Mutton, 141.846; lamb, 16,168.- Hull: Mutton: 8000; lamb. 10,670.. Cardiff: Mutton, 8745 ; lamb, 464. Southampton : Mutton, 12,897; lamb, 612. Plymouth: Mutton: 1585; iamb, 157.

Wheat- per bushel. Best milling 4/4-4/6 Medium do ... 4/3 Fowls' ... 3/10— 4/0 milling oats 3/7-1/8 Feed oats... 1/4—l/6 Malt barley ... 3/0 Feed barley 2/0-2/3 •Cape barley ... 3/6 Jtfaise - 5/6 per ton. Flour, in SOTs ... 215/0 Flour, in 50*s ... 220/0 .Pollard 80/0 Bran 65/0 per ton. Oatmeal, in 25'< 21K/C Oaten chaff 50/0— 55/« Ryegra3Bhay 55/o— Bs/t Straw ...25/OtoSOA Pearl barley .. 340/( cwi Onions, good 8/i)— 9/G per lb. Rolled bacon ... BJc Side bacon ... BJd Smoked bams ... 9i Cheese ... 6d— 6Jd Good salt bntter, 9d tc 15d. according tc