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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8077, 5 April 1906, Page 2

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SDUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. Dunedin, April 4. Wheat: There has been good demand during the week, and prime lines of Velvet and Tuscan have been readily taken at quotations. A great portion of the Southern wheat is very soft, and will haye to be quitted at fowl wheat rates. Prime milling 3s lSd to 3s 2Jd, medium and best whole fowl 2s lid to 3s 2d, sack extra. Oats: Very few offering. Stocks of old are practically finished, and but few new crop are to hand. Prices all round are easier! Prime milling Is lOd to Is 10R good to best feed Is 9d to Is 9£d, inferior and medium is 8d to Is 9d, sack extra. BURNSIDE MARKET. Dunedin, April 4, Fat cattlo: There were 175 yarded, only a few being really prime. Bidding was brisk for good quality, but others were largely unsaloablo, and were 15s below last week. Prime ox beef 23s 6d per XOOlbs, best bullocks £8 to £9 15s, medium to good £6 10s to £7 15s, light £3 10s to £6, best heifers £5 10s to £7, medium £3 to £5, aged cows £2 to £2 10s,

Fat sheep: 1494 penned, largely medium quality ewes, and some oxtra primo wethers. Prices advanced about Is per head, being most noticeable in wethers. Best wethers 18s to 22s • 3d, extra 25s to • 30s. Some very fine prime show sheep realised in the vicinity of-30s. Good wethers 15s to 17s (3d j best ewes lis 6d to 14s, extra 16s (is, others 12s.

Fat. lambs: 700 penucd. For lambs of good quality the prices were from 9d to Is in advance of last week's. Best 13s to las fid, extra 16s 9d, others lis 9d to 12s (id.

Pigs: 152 ponned. All sorts sold iu favor of vendors. A good sale throughout. Suckers 7s to 10s, slips Us to Lis, stores l(!s to 225, porkers 25s to 345, light bacouers 30s to 10s, heavy 42s to iSs, choppers up to C2s. DALGETY'S EEI'ORT. Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received the following cable advice from their London office, dated Ist inst.:— Hides, Leather and Basils: Prices, are unchanged. Wheat: The market.is quiet,