THE MARKETS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9151, 21 May 1908, Page 2

THE MARKETS.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Press Association. —Copyright. ■ Received May 20, 10 .36 a.m. Sydney, May 20. Wheat 4s 7d, flour £9 15s to £lO. Oats, Algerian milling, 3s 6d; seeding, 3s 9d ; barley. Cape, 4s 6d ; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 8d; bran and pollard, £B. Potatoes, Tasmanian, £4 5s to £4 10s. Onions, Victorian. £7. Butter, 122 s to J24s. Bacon, Sd. Melbourne, May 20. Wheat, 4s 6d; floor, £10; oats, firm, Algerian, 3s 4d; barley, good malting, 5s 3d, Cape, 4s Id; maize, 4s 8d ; bran and pollard, Is 6d. K Potatoes, £4 7s 6d. Onions, £6 5s to £6 10s. Adelaide. May 2q. Wheat, 4s 3d ; flour, £8 10s ; oats, Algerian, 3s 3d'; bran and pollard, Is 6d. ADDINGTON MAREKTS. Pe: P e-'.s Association. Oiiristclmrch, May 20. At Addington market to-day there was a fairly large entry of all classes of stock, and the attendance was good. Store sheep were a little easier, and fat lambs were firmer. Fat sheep showed a decline in prices owing to a large yarding . Beef was in over supply, but pdces showed no change. Fat pigs were not in very keeen demand, but stores sold well. Dairy cows sold well at advanced rates, and there was a dull -sale for store cattle. The store sheep pens were filled with another large entry, bat the quality of the stock was not equal to tnat of last week, and the demand was consequently less keen. Good forward wethers maintained their values, but backward sorts were more difficult to sell at easier rates. There was only a small number of breeding ewes in and those with good sound mouths sold at late prices. A line of twotooth ewes from the North Island formed part of the entry. There was a fairlv large entry of fat lambs and the bulk were of fair to prime quality. The sale started at nine o'clock and all the lambs were in except a few lines belonging to owners who were not aware of the change, the new arrangement enabling export buyers to get their lambs killed next day instead of having to wait till Friday, encouraged them to hid. freely, and prices for prime lambs advanced about 6d per head. Tegs made 16s 7d, ordinaly freezing weights IBs to 16s, aud light and unfinished lls to 12s 6d. Fat sneepThe range of prices was: —Prime wethers 17s 6d to 20s 9d, extra to 23s lighter 14s lOd to 17s, prime ewes 15s to 18s, medium 12s 6d, to 14s 6d, aged and light 8s to 12s Fat cattle ;—Prime beef made 22s to 25s 6d, medium 19s to 21s, and cow and inferior 17s to 18s 6d per 1001 b. Steers made £6 10s to £lO -os, extra to £l3, heifers £5 to £8 15s, and cows £4 10s to £9 12s 6d. An average yarding of fat calves met with the customary demand, prices ranging from 4s 6d to £2 13s, according to age and condition. Very few young stock came forward aud the sale was a dragging one for all classes. Two and 2^-year steers made £2 14s to £3 14a, aud dry cows 10s to £2 10s other sorts selling at last week’s rates. There was a fairly large entry of dairy cows a considerable number being of rather better quailty than at recent sales. For the host kinds there was a brisk demand and prices from £4 to £lO 2s 6d. Pigs:—Choppers sold up to £4, heavy haconera 60s to 60s extra to 755, equal to to per lb, heavy porkers 86s to 43s and light 28s to 355, equal to 5%d per lb. Large stores 83s to S9g 6d, medium 24s to 273, and weanors 8s to 12s.

STOCK REPORT. Messrs Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Palmerston N., report:—We held our usual Marton sale cn Tuesday the 19th inst., when we had a good yarding of sheep aud small entry of cattle. Sheep in forward condition were ready of sale. Prices realised were :—Forward wethers 14s 2d, fat and forward ewes 10s 3d to 11s lid, forward ewes 9s 6d to 9s lOd, empty ewes 8s to 8s Id, cull lambs 3s 3d, cull ewes 2s 9d to Bs, aged ewes In lamb 4Sj6d. Cattle sold at late rates.