THE MARKETS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9386, 4 March 1909, Page 8

THE MARKETS.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, March 3. Wheat, 4s 5d ; flour, £lO ss; oats, Algerian, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; white, 2s 6d; barley. Cape, 2s 9d to 3s; maize, •nominal, 4s 3d ; bran £3 10s; pollard, £5; potatoes, Tasmanian, £5 to £5 10s; onions, Ne'w Zealand, £7 10s: Victorian, £8; butter, 93s to 945; iOheese, 7d; bacon, 9%d. The above quotations are those ruling between merchants and retailers, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. Melbourne, March 3. Wheat, 4s 4d ; flour, £9 15s; oats; Algerian, feeding, Is 9d to is lOd; milling, Is lid; barley, English, malting, 4s; maize., !,4s ; bran, pollard. Is; potatoes, £3 10s to £4 10s;; onions, £7. Adelaide, March 3. Wheat, 4s 3%d; flour, £9 15s; bran, Is 2d ; pollard, Is 3d. STOCK REPORT. Messrs Dalgety & Co. report on Maxton sale: —We had a good entry of sheep. Owing to dry weather the demand was not keen. Cull lambs ss, mixed age ewes 7s to 8s 3d, sound-mouth ewes to 10s 6d, 6-tooth and f.f.m. ewes to 11s 4d, cull 2,tooth ewes 8s 63d, 2-tooth ewes to 12s 7d, 2-tooth Romney rams to 2-tooth Lincoln rams Ign to 4gns.