DUNEDIN MARKETS.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 20, 11 August 1894, Page 12

DUNEDIN MARKETS.

The following is a summary of business for week ended Bth inst.:— Fat Cattle.—Bo yarded, mostly medium quality and light weights. Brisk demand, with a substantial rise in prices. Bullocks sold at L 7 15s to LlO 7s 6d ; cows L 6 to L 8 17b 6d. Fat Sheep.—Market moderately supplied with 175 merino wethers of medium quality and 1942 crossbreds, about half of which were good quality wethers, the balance (ewes and wethers) barely butchers’ mutton. For best lots the demand for freezers kept the recent values' up, and in [some instances advanced prices of, say Is to Is 6d a head, were paid, low class quality meeting but moderate sale. Best wethers sold at IBs to 16s for extra, others 9s to 11s 3d ; merino wethers 8s 9d to 10s 6d. Pigs.—A few porkers sold well at 31s to 445; suckers 10s to 14s ; slips, 15s to 18s. Sheepskins. Country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, fetch Is 6d to 2s 8d ; do do merino, la 4d to Is 9d ; medium to good crossbreds, 2s 9d to 3s lOd ; extra heavy, 4s 3d to Ss 6d ; good to best merinos,

Is lOd to 2s 6d ; extra heavy, 2s 10s to 3s 3d; dry pelts, Id to Is 5d ; best green crossbreds, 3s lOd to is 6d ; extra heavy. 4s 7d to 4s 9d; medium to good, 3s 3d to 3s 9d; green merinos, 1 s 9d to 2s Bd. Eabbitskins.—The market continues very steady, and with a good demand experienced prices are firm. Quotations ; For best winter grey does, lid to 11 Jd ; selected, llfd to Is ; medium to good, 9-J-d to 10^d; autumn and early winter, fid to BJd ; summer, 3d to 5d ; suckers (half grown and inferior), Id to 2 Jd; best black and fawn, 9d to lOjd; medium to good, 4d to B£d per lb. Grain. —Wheat ; This cereal has a very steady demand, consequently late quotations are being firmly maintained. The quantity of really prim wheat offering is limited : the market is therefore more in favour of holders. Quotations : Best hard milling velvet, 2s lid to 3s ; extra prime, Id to 2d more; good to best red wheat, 2s 8d to 2s lOd ; medium to good, 2s fid to 2s 8d : good whole fowls’ wheat, 2s 5d to 2s fid; broken and inferior, 2s to 2s 4d (ex store, sacks weighed in). Oats : a better feeling pervades the market, and although no quotable change can be recorded in prices, sales are more easily effected ; and provided too eager a disposition is not displayed in the immediate disposal of consignments, an improvement in values is more likely to take place than Ihe reverse. Quotations : Prime milling, bright and stout, Is 5d to la stout feed, Is 4Jd to Is fid; medium to Is 3£d to Is 4£d; inferior and musty, Is Id to Is 2-Jd; long Tartarians, for seed—best Is Is 7d to is 9d, extra prime held for 2s; black Tartarians, Is fid to Is 8d (ex store, sacks extra).

Grass Seed. —While the business done in ryegrass seed is still unimportant, the demand is gradually improving. Best machine-dressed is still being hold for 3s 3d to 3s 9d; choice perennial, 4s to 4s 3d (ex store, sacks extra, net). —Cocksfoot seed : Quiet, but stocks are light, and will doubtless be wanted for local requirements a little further on. Meantime, best dressed is held for s£d to 6Jd ; medium, 4d to 5d per lb. Chaff. —Quotations : For best, £2 10s to £2 12s 6d; medium to good, £2 2s 6d to £2 7s 6d; inferior to medium, £1 12s 6d to £2 per ton (ex truck, sacks extra, net). Dairy Produce. —Quotations : For prime salt butter, dairy made, 6dto 7d ; medium, 4d to 5d ; factory made 9d to lOd per lb. Factory made cheese (dull of sale) : medium size, 4?d to 4sd ; loaf shape, 4fd to sd; dairy made, 2d to 3*d per lb.