MARKETS

Patea Mail, 1 February 1881, Page 4

MARKETS

PATEA CATTLE. Mr W. Dale reports having sold at the Patea Sale Yards on ’Thursday last, 29 steers 16 months £2 18s ; 6 cows with calves £5 2s 6d ; 14 cows £3 7s 6d ; 16 yearlings and calves £2 3s ; 14 2-year-old steers £4 5s ; 4 young heifers £4 2s 6d ; 8 yearlings £2 10s ; 8 cows averaged £5 10s each ; 1 boar £2 5s ; 1 sow £3 2s 6d ; young pigs 12s to 15s each ; a pen of fat sheep were passed in at 8s 3d. CANTERBURY GRAIN & PRODUCE. (From Canterbury Times.') The weather during the week lias been most favorable for harvest operations, and the reports to hand from the various districts inform us that full advantage is being taken of it, and work pushed forward vigorously. The market has been quiet, few farmers having been in town. Old wheat finds buyers at 4s to 4s 3d ; new, for immediate delivery, is quoted at 3s 8d to 3s 9d, the millers being the buyers There has been a slight enquiry for chick wheat, and small lines have been sold at Is 8d to 2s. Oats continue thoroughly inactive. Prime milling stand at Is 6d to Is 7d ; feed at Is 3d to Is sd. The business passing has been very limited. New barley is quoted at 3s 6d and upwards for best samples. Flour has seen a fair enquiry at £ll. New season’s cocksfoot is offering freely, hut up to the present not much has changed hands. Trices have not yet been determined. Sellers asking 2£d to 3d ; buyers offering 2A-d to 2£d, according to sample. The seed this season will be as a whole of very fine qualit}'. Butter is quoted at 6d f.o.b. Cheese, very dull of sale at 3£d to 4d. Hams and bacon unaltered. CANTERBURY STOCK REPORT. (From Canterbury Times.) At the Addington Yards on Wednesday, the 27th Januaiy the attendance was smaller than usual, and business was decidedly quiet. The stock yarded comprised 6235 sheep, 313 head of cattle, and 102 pigs. Sheep. —There was only a small proportion of fat sheep, the bulk ot stock being good quality stores. The immediate result was a rise of fully Is 3d per head on prime lots of the former. Stoi’es sold at about last week’s rates. Several lines changed hands at from 7s to 8s (cross-breds). Fat lambs sold at from 6s to 7s 3d. We quote mutton at 2d per lb. Cattle— The bulk of thefat cattle comprised good and prime pens, which met with a dull sale. Indifferent lots were also dull of sale. We quote 17s 6d per 1001b for beef. Three-year-old mixed stores changed hands at prices ranging up to £5 2s 6d ; two-year-olds, £4 15s. Pigs are dull of sale.

WELLINGTON PRODUCE. Flour, £lO 10s. to £ll ; oatmeal, £ll ; new potatoes, £3 to £3 10s per ton ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; maize, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel ; onions, 10s per cwt; cheese, 5d to 6d ; hams and bacon (Canterbury), lOd ; country-cured, 8d ; fresh butter, 6d ; salt butler, (no sale) ; eggs, Is 3d per dozen, NEW PLYMOUTH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by latest report), Raying, Soling, s. d. s. d. Batter (per lb.) ... ... 0 6 0 8 Cheese (Colonial) ... 0 7 0 10 Eggs (per doz.) ... ... 1 0 12 Butchers’ Meat. —Beef, 3d to 5d ; mutton, 2£d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d. Mill Prices.— Taranaki flour, 14s 6d per lOOibs ; silk-dressed (Star brand), 15s 6d ; wheat meal, 13s 6s; chick’s wheat, 4s 6d per bushel ; sharps, 8s per IOOIhs, or sack 10a ; bran, 4s per sack ; oats, 3s per bushel ; oatmeal, 4s 6d per bag (251bs); maize (best screened), 5s Od per bushel.

CHRISTCHURCH RETAIL PRICES. (Corrected by Latest Report.) Fresh butter ... ... 8d to lOd per lb Eggs Is 3d per doz Cheese ... ... ... Gd to lOd perlb Milk 4d per quart Lamb ... ... ... 2s 6d and 3s Beef ... ... ... 2d to Gd per lb Mutton ... 2d to 4d per lb Pork ... ... ... 7d per lb Ham Is per lb Bacon ... ... .... lOd and Is perlb DUNEDIN PRICES. Prime beef, 22s Gd per lOOibs ; mutton, to l§d per lb. The following ingenious suggestion is made by a correspondent of the New York Herald : —“ You recently called attention to an evil which exists in connection with the racing tracts of both England and America—viz., the unfair riding of horses by faithless jockeys. There is unquestionably a deep-rooted feeling in the minds of by far the larger number of the ordinary visitors to a race track that it is customary to manage certain races in the interests of certain owners and betting men. One simple remedy is to increase the surveillance over the jockeys while riding a race, and to that end I beg leave to submit the following suggestions. Erect one or more stands, to be used as points of observation during the progress of a race, and at each of these stands place some one who may be relied upon to direct aud report any false riding or other suspicious action on the part of jockeys. The pulling of horses generally occurs on that part of the track furthest from the principal stands, and where it is difficult to see what is going on ; the location of these observation stations around the course would effectually obviate this, and tend to allay the suspicions of a great number of respectable men, who will continue to take pleasure in seeing good horses run fair races.” One advantage of keeping sheep upon farms of the size of ordinary selections is cited by a correspondent of the Mclvor Times, who writes :—“Not only by laborsaving machinery and attention must the farmer study to promote his interests, but by raising sheep as well. The farmer with a few hundred sheep has considerably the advantage of those who have only the cultivation to depend on. I know of an instance where a fanner holding 320 acres this year has 60 acres under cultivation, who has also 300 sheep. His wool and the lambs he sold realised £6O, leaving his sheep and bulk of lambs with £55 cash as profit ; yet his cultivation will not, under present appearance, pay for the cutting and threshing of it. Thus, with sheep and cultivation, and labor-saving machinery, the farmer may do well, even should low prices still rule.” A Pen nigh for His Thoughts. —The Marquis dTvry, a contemporary tells us is just conpleting another Opera, “ the liberetto of which is from his own pen.” What a clever pen ? Why doesen’t Dr Sullivan buy a dozen of ’em ?

AUCKLAND RETAIL PRICES (Corrected by latest report.) Roasting Beef ... 5d to 7d Boilii.g Beef 4d to 5d Mutton, hind-quarter 4d to 5d .. fore-quarter 3d to — Lamb, hind-quarter os Od to OS „ fore-quarter Pork and Yeal 3s 6d to 5s 6d to Od Steaks... 6d to 8d Chops and Sausages 5d to Gd Tallow wholesale, mutton 27s, mixed, 20s to 25s, WELLINGTON PRICE! . (Corrected by latest report.) Farm and Dairy Produce — - Wholesale. s. d. s. d. Milk, quart o 8 to V o Butter, salt, lb 0 H to 0 n Butter, fresh 0 2k to 0 Cheese. Colonial 0 H to 0 5 Eggs, dozen 0 9 to i 0 Lard, lb 0 3 to 0 4 Ham. lb 0 0 to 0 10 Bacon, lb ... ... 0 8 to 0 9 Fowls, pair ... 4 6 to 0 0 Ducks, pair... 5 0 to 5 6 Geese, pair ... 5 0 to 0 0 Turkeys, pair 6 0 to 0 0 Flour Market— -Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Adelaide, per ton ... 13 10 0 to 14 0 0 Bran, per ton Colonial Flour 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 11 0 0 to 11 10 0 Oatmeal 10 10 0 to 11 0 0 Hay and Corn Market. £ S. d. & s. d. Maize, Sydney 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Maize, Poverty Bay 0 3 0 to 0 0 0 Oats 0 2 2 to 0 2 3 Oats, feed ... 0 1 9 to 0 1 10 Wheat 0 3 0 to 0 3 o Wheat, chick 0 2 9 to 0 0 0 Potatoes 1 5 0 to 1 10 0 Carrots 1 10 0 to 0 0 0 Hay, ton 4 10 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton 4 35 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton ... Chaff, ton ... 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 4 0 0 to o o o Onions 0 0 3 to o o o Seeds. s. d. s. d. Ryegrass, bushel ... 3 6 to 4 0 Cocksfoot, per lb 0 U to 0 4 White clover, per lb 1 3 to 0 0 Red clover, per lb 0 8 to 0 9 Turnips, dozen 1 G to 0 0 Alsyke, per lb 1 6 to 0 0 Cow grass, per lb 0 10 to 0 105