DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2321, 20 February 1892, Page 4

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday :

Wheat Market continues quiet ; neither millers nor shippers show any disposition to purchase at current rates. So soon as tho new grain is on the market no doubt an improvement in the demand will take place. Quotations Prime milling, 4s 3d to 4s 6d; medium, 3s 9d to 4s, with few transactions passing; fowls’ wheat, plenty offering at reduced values ; good whole, 3s to 3s 3d; broken and inferior, Is lOd to 2s lOd. Barley—Malting, 3s; milling, 2s to 2s 6d; feed, Is 9d to 2s. Oats —Stocks are about worked out, but the supply is quite equal to the limited demand; prime milling, Is 7d to Is 7id; bright short feed, Is 6d to Is 7d; medium and inferior, Is 2d to Is sd. Potatoes—Market improved since last report; good sound derwonts, 60s. Pigs—Good sizes wanted; 130ib to 160 lb at 3d to 3}d; hams, 7 Jd; bacon, 5 Jd. Chaff—ln bettor supply; prime, 62s 6d to 65s ; medium and inferior, 50s to 60s. Straw —Oaten and wheaten, 30s. Clover and ryegrass hay, 60s. Butter—Salt, prime, 7d, packages extra or returnable.

Honey—Extracted, 4jd. Cheese —Akaroa large, 3kl to 4d ; loaf, 4}d; factory makes, 4jd to 4£d; loaf size, sd. Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, plenty offering, very little business passing. Farmers’ undressed, 2s to 2s 6d; dressed, 3s to 3s 3d; cocksfoot, up to 4d.

Sheepskins—A good demand continuer, to be experienced for both dry and green skins. At auction on Tuesday, country dry crossbreds, low to medium, brought la6d to 3b 3d; do do, merino, Is 4d to 2s 7d; full-woolled crossbreds, 3s lOd to ps 9d; do do, merino, 3s to 5s 3d; dry pelts, 24 to Is 2d; green crossbred pelts —best, Is 04 to 2s; medium to good, Is 5d to Is 8d; green lambskins —best, Is 9d to 2s; medium, Is 5d to Is Bd, Hides—All descriptions arc saleable at prices according to weight and condition. Quotations for heavy in good condition, 21 dto 2£d; 651 b and upwards, 2ijd to 3d; country, average, fid to 2d; light, lid to l^d; inferior and slippy, fd to Id per lb, Tallow—The market is quiet but steady, and no change to note in either demand or values. Quotations : —For prime rendered mutton, 18s ()d to 19s 6d; medium to good, 16s to 18s; inferior to medium, 13s to 15a; best caul fat, 12s 6d to 13s; inferior to medium and good, 9s to 12s per ewt, DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Market on Wednesday the following business was transacted; — Fat Cattle-. (QijJy 97 head yarded, nearly all medium quality and light weights, with a few pens good beef. At the commencement of the sales competition was fairly active for good quality, prions .showing an advance on those obtaining last week, l?yt towards the close the demand fell off, medium (juajity being difficult to quit. Best bullocks brought £0 15s to £8 10s ; medium to good, £5 5s to £0 10s ; light weights, £3 10s to £5 ; best cows, £5 5s to £8 7s 6d; medium, £4 to £5; light, £2 5s to £3 7s 6d, Fat Calves sold jit from 17s Gd to 30s.

Fat Sheep 1562 were penned, including 130 merino wethers; the rest crossbred wethers and ewes, mostly good to prime, for which there was a very good demand —prime mutton showing a rise of Is (id to 2s per head on last week’s prices. ]Jo>( crossbred wethers brought 14s 6d to iUa (jd—oue small pen extra prime, 17b 5

ordinary, 12s to 13s Gd; best do ewes, 13s to 15s 6d; extra heavy, IGs 6d; ordinary, 10s to 12s 9d ; merino wethers, 9s 6d to 10s 6d. Lambs —777 were penned, and met with a fairly brisk market. Best brought 10s to 12s 6d—one or two extra heavy, 13a ; medium to good, 8s to 9s 9d; inferior, 5a 6d to 7s 6d, Pigs—3oo penned. All sorts, with the exception of suckers, met with a good demand. Stores, at the moment, have a full share of attention, and sell readily. Suckers brought 7s to 12a 6d; slips, 13s to 15s; stores, 18s 6d to 20a 6d ; porkers, 23s to 27s 6d; baconers, 28s to 37s 6d; heavy weights, 42s to 455. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Feb. 19. The Land Company, of Australia, has suspended payment. The deposits amount to £87,000, and the paid-up capital to £155,000. Nearly £250,000 worth of shares are hypothecated as security to English debenture-holders, who advanced £190,000. ENGLISH AND FOREIGN MARKETS. London, Feb. 16. Fourteen thousand quarters of Australian wheat, January and February shipments, sold at 395. Shares in the colonial shipping companies are unchanged. Feb. 17.

Prices at the wool sales are steady. Eight hundred bales of first combings were disposed of at an average of 7fd. Fine crossbreds are Id, lower than at last series. The next woof sales will be held on 29th March and following days. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,900,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,108,000 quarters. ’’ ‘ ■ The bulk of the Tasmanian 41- per cent, bonds, with two years’ currency, at a minimum of 100}, have been absorbed. The bonds are intended to replace a previous issue. Wool is steady. The quantity to be received for the Second series is unlimited. Berlin, Feb. 17. Owing to the machinations of grain operators in Berlin it is expected that a comer in Russian rye will be effected in April, and prices are advancing by leaps. Constantinople,. Feb. 16. The greater part of the crops in Montenegro have been destroyed owing to the cold weather and the prevalence of vermin. Calcutta, Feb. 18. The Indian Government will shortly apply for a loan of £5,000,000.

A private cable from Calcutta to a Christchurch firm quotes wool packs l}d lower. Cornsacks and castor oil unchanged.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Christchurch, have received the following cable message dated London, 16th inst,;—

Wool—The sales progress firmly, but there is much irregularity in the bidding. Quotations unchanged since last telegram. Superior greasy merino—Market is easier. The American demand is limited. The total quantity catalogued to date is 248,000 bales, and the total quantity withdrawn to date is 22,000 bales. Wheat —Market is firmer, and there is a fair demand. New Zealand wheat, f.a.q., is worth c.i.f. to arrive 39s 6d per 4801 b. Quotations nominal. New Zealand wheat, long berried, and average, are worth respectively 43s 6d to 41s 9d per 4961 b.

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