DUNEDIN RETAIL HOUSEHOLD MARKETS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 350, 25 April 1874, Page 2

DUNEDIN RETAIL HOUSEHOLD MARKETS.

Butiher meat remains at last quotations. Roasting beef, 6d. to 7<l. per lb ; boiling, 3d. ta 4J. ; stewing, 4d. to. 5d. ; steak, 6d. to Bd. ; Legs and loins of mutton, 4d. ta sd. per lb. ; chops, 5i1. ; boiling, 3d. Pork very scarce. The supply of bacon and hams is scarcely equal to, the demand. Cheese is very plentiful. TLe casli price of the best butter is now Is. 4d. Kggs nave advanced to 2s. 3d. per dozen. Bread, sid. to 6£d. per 41b loaf. Vegetables are plentiful. Potatoes, 12lbs. to 181 bs. for Is. ; onions, Blbs. Ib. ; poa?, 51b6. Is. ; vegetable marrows, 6d. ta 3d. each.

Mn. Akohibam) Moib, Manse street, reports the ioilowing as the latest quotations : Flour— £l2 to £l 2 10s per ton. Oatmeal — £23 per tori* Pearl Barley — £25 per top. Bran — £5 per fco-n. Pollard — £6 per ton. Clmfl' — £4 per lon. Hay — £4 10s per ton. Po'-atoes — £3 per toiu Carrots — £2 10s per ton. Turnips — None. Wheat — 4s 6d to 5s per bushel. Barley — 4s 6d %o 5s per bushel. Oats — 4s to 4s 2d per bushel. Butter — Is 2d to Is 3d per lb. • Cheese— 6d to 8d per lb.

Messrs Driver, Stewabt and Co. report as follows, for the week ending April 22ndj: — . Fat Cattle.— -A moderate supply of 50 head Wasryardedat'th'e'iisuar weekly salfe, but the

quality being for the most part only ordinary to middling, we cannot quote any advance upon our late quotations. Really prime quality, which is evidently becoming more scarce would always .find ready sale. We quote best quality at about from 22s to 23s per lOQlbs ; medium, 17s to 188. We sold at the yards 25 head, and have placed 40 head privately. Pat sheep. — About 900 were penned— mostly merino wethers and ewes — which we sold at the following prices— say, for ewes 5s 6d to 6s 6d ; wethers, 7s 6d to Bs. None of the a'nove were of really good quaDity. Prime cross-bredß are, saleable at 2sd, do merinoes 2Jd. We have placed 400 for forward delivery. Fat Lambs. — 50 were penned to-day, a portion of which were sold at 9s each. Store Cattle, — There is a fair demand for quiet grown steers and spayed cows at from 63 10s to £4 10s for the former and £2 Jss to £3 3s for the latter. We have sold 120 head, during the week, at quotations. v Store Sheep.— A few old ewes are still changing hands at 3s to 4s, for the purpose of breeding cross-breds. As the season, however is so far advanced, but few station lots are .offering, which if good would realise 4s 6d for immediate delivery. We have a good demand for young merino ewea deliverable in lamb at 7s to #s ; and also good conditioned merino wethers, if within easy driving distance, at from 5s 6d to 6s 6d. Four and six tooth cross-breds are much wanted for paddocks but almost impossible to get. We have bqls 20.00 yery superior two-tooth cross-bred ewes at 10s, and of other sorts 2500 at qotation3. Wool. — Since the date of our last no fur,ther advices from the home market have reached us. In our local market but little business has been, done, ..and there is very little wool now left &}fc offer. At our usual weekly sale of produce to-day, we- offered about 50 bales, most of which waa disposed of at aatisfactory,prices, , . Sheepskins.— Our sale to-day waa well attended, but only a few skins were forward for offer. Bidding, howeve.r, wag spirited, and full prices were obtained. Full-woolled skins fetched up to 5s each ; medium dry skins, Is 7d to 2s 9d, Butchers' lneriho skins, Is 8d to Is lOd, , „ . • Hides are in fair request, and sound wetsalted command ready sale and full prices. The bulk of those offering at the present tiroo, however, are not in shipping condition. We sold several lots to-day, at from 10s 6d to 14s ! dry hides, and 15s 9d to 18s 3d for salted. Tallow is in very wemli . demand> We catalogued 35 casks to-day, but in the absence of buyers withdrew it. Returns lately received from the home markets for shipments made last season are of an unsatisfactory character, and hence shippers are disinclined to operate except at very safe figures, thereby virtually restricting the demand to local consumers. . Grain. — Wheat is in fair request ** <U §d t'6_ 4s lOd, for -well-conditioned bright samples. Oats are not so actively enquired for as lately, but prices continue firm at last quotations, viz.., 4s to 4s 2d for new crop"; 4s 4d t'6 4s 6d for old. Mr. Bradsdaw reports Sales on Wednesday of National Insurance Co. shares, at £1 13s ; Staudard Insurance Co. shares, at 17s ; South British Insurance Co. shares, at £2 12s. These transactions were for cash. Mr, C. F. BiACK reports : —Sales : National Insurance, £1 15s 6d, cash 3 Standard, £1 ; South British, £2 11s. ' Messrs. Whitelaw Axd Co. repo fc that they offered, on Tuesday last, the cargo of sugars just arrived per Hopeful, from Mauritius. The trade was well represented, and a spirited competition maintained throughout the sale, which resulted in more than twothirds of the cargo being placed at the following rates : — Snowdrop crystals, £37 10a to £37 12b 6d ; finest white do, £35- 10s to £36 2s 6d ; white do, £31 to £3-4 5s ; finest yellow do, £34 10s ; finer do do, £32 os to £32 lQs — all in bond.