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STEEL RAILS DEARER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. New York, Sept. 14. The United States Steel Corpgrgtiqp has announced an increase in the ’price ot steet rails from 49 to 43 dollars a ton, beginning October 1. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Sept. 15. Oats.—Tasmanian w;hite, 4s 2d to 4s 4d3 Algerian feed, 3s lid to 4s id. . L Maioe.—Local yellow Gs, white 5s 10d; South African, 5s 10d to> 5s lid. Potatoes.—Tasmanian £l2. Onions.—Victorian £l4. Melbourne, Sept. 15. Barley.—English, 3s 10d to 4s; Cape 3s. Oats;—3s 9d to 3s Potatoes, £7 to £9 10s. Qnlopg, £8 10s tq £9 IQs. Adelaide, Sept. 15. Oats, 3s to 3s 2d. ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. BETTER RATES FOR "MUTTON. Christchurch, Sept. 13. At the Addington market to-day there was again a heavy yarding of beef, but a lighter one of mutton. Beef prices eased, while mutton improved. The break in the weather assisted in the change in the market for store sheep. Store Sheep.—A small yarding and a good sale, particularly for wethers. There was an all round on last week equal Jo about Is per head.. Halfbred ewe hoggets made 20s 3d, good crossbred 21s 7d, halfbred wether hoggets 15s to 16s 9d, small mixed sex hoggets 14s Id, cull wether hoggets 13s, four, six, and eight-tooth crossbred ewes in lacnb 295, aged f.m. ewes with lambs 13s 7d (all counted) forward four and six-tooth halfbred wethers 22s 3d to 22s sd, two, four, six, and eight-tooth halfbred wethers 19s 2d. Spriqg La.mbs. —48 were penned. The bulk were sold at from 25s to 28s per head, the top price, being 80s. Fat Sheep.—A smaller yarding than last week. Prime mutton advanced Is 6d per head, medium being about the same as last week. Tl ieF «. a good clearance. -Extra- 4wime wethers made 30s to 355, prime 25s 6d to 28s, tmedium 22s to 255, light and inferior 18s to 21s 6d. Extra prime ewes made to 255. 4d, prime 22s 3d to. 24s 9d, medium 19s 9d to 225, light and inferior 17s to 193 6d. Fat Cattle.—3Bo were yarded, compared with 425 last week. The market was over-supplied, and there was a further easing of about £2 per head. The offerings Included 120 head from, the North Island. Extra prime beef was worth 33s per 100 lb, prime 2«s to 31s, secondary 20s to 255. Extra prime steers made £l3 10s to £l5 ss, prime £lO 10s to £l3, medium £8 to £lO 7s 6d, light and unfinished £4 12s Gd to £7 103. Prime heifers made £6 to £8 7s 6d. ordinary £3 17s 6d to £5 17s 6d, extra prime cows £lO, prime £5. 17s ?d to £8 IQs. ordinary cows £8 15s to £5 15s. Vealers.—A’ small entry of Indifferent, qttalIty, and anything good gold well at fully late rates. Runners £4 12s, vealers £3 10s *o £4 ss, small calves.Jls. upwards.
Store Cattle.—A fairly large entry and a little more spirited- demand than at recent sales. Four-year heifers £2 12s 6d to £2 15s, yearlings £1 12s 6d to "£1 15s. Medium cows £1 5s to £1 15s.
Dairy Cattle. —Very Tittle good stuff was sent forward. The demand was poor, and a dragging sale resulted- G,QQ.d se£P.Hd_and_third calvers, springing, made £6 to £l2, ordinary second and- third calvers £2 to £5 ss, good springing heifers £4 to £B. Fat. Pigs.—The demand for pork was good, but as the result of an over supply prices fell away towards file end, ' ClibJ>P fers . 'made £4 to £B, light baconers £3 12s to £4, heavy £4 5s to £4 7s od. extra heavy £4 10s (average price pcy..1b,.,6d to 6%d), light workers 40s to 475, heavy 52s 6d to 60s (average price per lb io 8d). Store Pigs.—The demand was better than last week, and a good clearance was made at improved prices. Medium stores 30s to 38s, small 25s to 30s, good weaner 21s, ordinary 8s to Ils, sows in pig £3 10s.
BURNSIDE MARKET. PRICES SLIGHTLY EASIER. Dunedin, Sept. 13. Prices for most classes of 'stock were Slightly easier at Burnside sales to-day. Cattle.—There was a large yarding of fat cattle, which were’ forward In good proportion and were comprised of well-finished steers, although none of them were quite so heavy as many of those offered at last week’s sale. Cows and heifers were forward in larger numbers than usual. There was a marked de’preciatlOH. in prices, the decline being 30s per head and in the ■ case of heavyweight cattle 20k-and- unedium weights, while, cows and .heifers were duller of sale than usual owing to the large supply of good steer beef. Extra prfme bullocks brought up to £l5 17s 6d, prime £ll to £l3 10s, medium £8 to £lO, light £7 to £8 ss, extra prime heifers to _£lo 7s 6d, prime £7 to £B, medium £5 5s tn £6 10s, old and inferior _£4 to £5, prime ox beef sold at 31s to 32s fid per 100 lb, medium quality 28s to 30s, light unfinished 25s to 275. prime heifer beef 23a to 255, good cow beef 20s to 225, aged and inferior 18s to 20s. Fat Sheep.—The quality of the 2500 sheep offered was good. A large proportion of. the ; yarding consisted of well-finished mediujn I weight wethers, with affair proportion of i prime heavyweight wethers. E'wes were apars.e--;ly represented, butchers were bare of aup- | plies and were keen competitors, while graziers were operating for unfinished wethers." In'coni sequence of the demand prices for all prjine ' heavy sheep were fully on a par with last ' week’s rates, but values for lightweights were, if anything, a shade easier. Lightweight prime wether mutton was worth 4%d to 4%d, light and unfinished up to 4%d, light and aged 3%d, extra prime heavyweight wethers realised from 34s to 3Rs, prime 29s to 335. (medium 25s lo 27s Gd, light and unfinished sorts from 1.8? Cd to 235. There was a keen demand for ewes. Extra prime realised up to 28s 6d and medium from 17s to 19s. There were several pens of hoggets offered. They were we.l woolled, mostly ewes, and realised from 17s to 18s 9d per head. Store Cattle-—A Jarge yarding of indifferent quality was offered. Among the niimfier"were about twenty-five head of three and four-year-old steers which sold at £5 16s to £7 Bs, 18-imontli steers and heifers realised from 40s to £3 4s, yearlings 15s to 37s 6d, which were sold at cheap rates. Some of the cows offered were in good condition, but there was very little demand, and the prices .realised showed practically no Improvement bn late rates. , . „ Pi es .—a large yarding, all classes being well represented. Competition was not brisk and a dragging sale resulted. Prices for all prime pigs were easier to the extent of about 7s Gd per head. Prime baconers realised from 5d to 5%d per lb and prime porkers from 7d to 7%d per lb.
THE PIG MARKET.
At Newton King, Ltd.’s New Plymouth haymarket yesterday weaner pi,gs made 12s Gd to 15s,"slips 16s to 21s. culls 8s 6d, stores 31s to 335, purebred Berkshlres (two months old) 355.
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