DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2315, 6 February 1892, Page 4

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday : Wheat—Very little doing in this line. Millers having fair stocks of flour with little demand, prefer to wait until the new crop is offering, when lower prices are expected. 4s 6d to 4s 8d for prime milling is asked; medium, 4s to 4s 3d, with very few sales. Fowls’ wheat, plenty offering at lower prices. Good whole grain, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; medium and broken, 2s lOd to 3s 3d, Barley—No business of importance doing. Oats have declined fully Id since last report, with a good prospect of going lower still. Prime milling, Is 7d ; good bright feed, Is 6d to Is 6£d; medium and off-color lots, Is 2d to Is 4d. Potatoes are more saleable; not so many arriving. Kidneys or derweuts, fresh dug, are worth 40s to 455. Pigs—l3oib to 1601 b, worth 3d to 3Jd ; hams, 7d to 7£d; bacon, 5d to s£d. Chaff—All good lots coming to hand are easily placed. Prime quality, 65s to 70s; medium, 50s to 60s. Butter—Salt, 6jd to 6fd, up to 7d for extra good. Fresh butter in full supply ; worth 4d to sd. Eggs—Scarce, and better quality. Honey—New season’s, 4|d for extracted. Cheese—Akaroa, 3|d to 4d for large sizes; 4£d for loaf; factory makes, large, 4|d; loaf, sd. Sheepskins—At auction on Tuesday country dry crossbreds, inferior to medium, brought la 6d to 3s 6d; do do merino, Is id to 2s 6d; full-woblled crossbreds, 4s to 6s 2d ; do do merino, 3s to 5s 6d; dry pelts, 3d to ls8d; green crossbred do, best, 2s 3d to Is 8d; others, Is 6d to Is 3d; lambskins, Is 9d to 2s; medium, Is 5d to Is Bd. Hides—A good demand continues for all classes, especially for heavy well-flayed ox hides, which are very scarce. Quotations for best heavy ox (60fi> and over, well-flayed, and free from cuts), 2Jd to 2|d ; medium weights, 2d 'to 2Jd;'light, IJd to Ifd; inferior and slippy, Id to l£d. Tallow —The following prices are ruling: —Best rendered mutton, 18s 6d to 20s ; medium to good, 16s to 18s ; inferior and mixed, 12s 6d to 15s 6d; rough fat—best mutton caul, 12s 6d to 14s; medium to good, 11a to 12s; inferior, 9s to 11s. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Market on Wednesday the following business was transacted:— Fat Cattle —IBO yarded, consisting chiefly of medium to good beef, and a few pens prime. Bidding throughout was spirited, and a slight advance on last week’s prices was noticeable. Best bullocks brought £8 2a 6d to £9 3s; medium to good, £6 10s to £8 ; light and inferior, £5 to £6 ss; and cows in proportion. Fat Sheep—23ss were penned, 200 of these being merinos and the balance crossbreds. Last week’s prices were fully maintained throughout. Best crossbred wethers sold at 12s 6d to 14s; ordinary, lls to 12s 3d ; best crossbred ewes, 11 s 9d to 12s 6d; ordinary, 9s 3d to lls 6d; and merinos up to 12s 9d. Fat Lambs—94B were penned, all good quality. Competition was keen, and prices for the quality forward were just about equal to those of last week. Best brought 10s to lls 6d; others, 8s to 9s 6d. Pigs—Only 81 were penned and these were mostly slips. Suckers were not wanted, but other sorts sold fairly well. Suckers brought 7s to 12s; slips, 13s to 15s 6d; porkers, 19s 6d to 25s ; baconers, 33s to 40s. ENGLISH AND FOEEIGN MAEKETS. London, Feb. 2. The shareholders of the Standard Bank, Melbourne, readily responded to the call for assistance, and expressed a desire that the business should be resumed. The butter market has seriously collapsed. A portion of the shipment of Victorian factory-made was sold for 112 s to 115 s per cwt. The reinstated firm of Baring Bros, show a profit for the year of £112,000 ; £50,000 was carried to reserve, and a dividend of 5 per cent, declared. At the half yearly meeting of shareholders of the Union Bank of Australia the chairman said that they had suffered \ less harm by the depression than any of the banks in the colonies. The profits were less by £15,000, but this was a small amount, considering the acuteness of the crisis in Australia. The total amount of the profits for the half year was £106,000, I Feb. 4. Russia, Germany, Austria, and Greece, are all arranging to float large loans. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,880,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,288,000 quarters. Bank of New Zealand shares, new issue, £7 10s; old, £5 10s. National Bank, £l. The best class of wools is unchanged, but medium and inferior quality are fetching fully five per cent, below the prices which ruled at the December sales. The prgseht series close on the 20th inst. The Western Australian loan is regarded with indifference in the city, but that it will be successfully floated is looked upon as almost certahi. The Government of the colony wished to apply for £500,000, but the bank declined to take the loan in band for that sumThe American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 66,500,000 bushels, Paris, Feb, 4, The new tariff is causing general inconvenience in Paris. It is feared that the Austrian and German exports of sheep to France will be reduced by one-half. Frozen meat from the River Plate is selling freely in this city, J)j)t only a few days’ supply is available. Berlin, Feb. 3, The Imports into German New Guinea during the pasjt ypa r amounted to £50,000.