DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 9, 27 May 1893, Page 12

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Stock—Fat Cattle : Few were yarded at Burnside on the 23rd inst. Best bullockss, £7 10s to £9 7s 6d; medium to good, £6 to £7 5s ; light weights, £4 15s to £5 17s Gd ; best cows, £6 10s to £7 7s 6d; medium to good, £4 5s to £6 7s Gd ; light and aged, £2 17s bd to £4.—Fat Sheep—Best crossbred wethers, 15s to 17s Gd; inferior to medium and good. 12s to 16s 9d; best do ewes, 14s Gd to 16s 9d; inferior and medium, 9s Gd to 13s 6d; merino wether’s, 7s Gd to 10s. Fat Lambs sold at fx’om 7s Gd to 11s. Sheepskins —Keen competition has been experienced for all sorts. Country dry crossbreds ranged from Is 9d to 3s 8d; merino from Is 7d to 2s 9d; full-woolled crossbreeds from 3s lOd to Ga 9d; mei'ino, 2s lid to 5s 8d; dry pelts, 2d to is sd; green crossbred skins, 3s Gd to 4s 3d; mei’ino, is lOd to 2s Gd, Babbitskins. —Good catalogues were submitted for auction, comprising all sorts, and a very substantial advance on last week’s prices was secured, more especially for best skins, which brought Is 4d to Is 4-$d ; medium to good, Is 2-J-d to Is 34d ; autumn, 10-J-d to Is 2kl ; summer, 8d to 9id ; suckers, halfgrown, and inferior, 4|d to 7ld. Grain. —Wheat: Market quiet. Quotations for prime milling velvet and Tuscan, 2s 9d to 2s lid; extra prime, 3s ; medium to good, 2s 5d to 2s 8d ; inferior to medium, 2s Id to 2s 4d ; broken and thin, Is 9d to 2s (ex store, sacks weighed in, terms). Oats.—Quotations ; For best bright milling, Is 9-J-d to Is lOd ; extra prime, Is 104 d ; best bright feed sparrowbills, Is 9d to Is 91,d; medium do and shoit Tartarians, Is 8d to Is ■Bj : d; discoloured and inferior, Is 5d to Is 7f-d ; medium to good long Tartarians, Is 8 J-d to Is 94d ; extra bright and clean, Is lOd to Is, 11-J-d; black, Is to Is 8-Jd; Danish, Is 74d to Is 81d (ex store, sacks extra, net). Potatoes.—The supply during the week being ample, prices have remained stationary at—for best Derwents, 50s to 52s Gd; medium, 45s to 47s Gd per ton (ex store, sacks weighed in, net).