Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 175, 13 July 1901, Page 2

Commercial.

WAIMATE MARKETS. Butter, wholesale 010 -retail... 1 0 Eggs * „ 1 0 „ 12 BU&NSI&B MARKETS. Dunedin, July 10. - Cattle.—l 62 fat cattle were yarded. This modest supply, when there whs no -•ale last week caused prices tc advance to the extent of from 10- to 20s per head. Extra prime heavy bullocks, fetched £ll to 612 ; prime, £9 to £lO 15s; medium, £7 to. £8 ; prime h-ifers, £6 to £7 ; one uen of extra prime from South. Canter I ary sold at £8 17- 6d ; light and medium, £4 10a t v £5 10s. bheep —Of fat sh. ep 1050 were penned of which seventy four were merino wethers. Bidding was spirited throughout. Prime crossbred Wethers realised 18s 3‘l to 19s 9*l; good, 16- 6d to 18s; extra prime ewe-*, up- o 18s 6.1; prime do.. ISsdo 16s 6d ; gonflj iSs 61 to 15- ; merino wethers, 10? 3.1 to lis -fed ; only ninety lambs were penned, which sold from 10s 9>l to 13s. Pigs.—Only forty-seven Were penned, no stores nor h-con -rs being amongst the lot. Slips sold at 10s to 11s 6d ; porkers 22 3 to 34s ;hig pigs, 63s lo 70s.

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. Dunedin, July 10. Wheat. —Now that freights have b-cn reduced there is better inquiry among shipers for god Cond tio led in fairly lai ge lines, and there is a fair demand for prime milling at 2s 6d to 2a medium to good. 2a 4d to 2a 5d ■; fo.vl wheat, 2a to 2s S.Jd. sacks in. Oat«.—There ia a good inquiry f r all sound lines suitable I r shipping, and the prkrkct has a healthier tone. There doea ■‘hot appear to be much chance of improve meet, -as shippers here a>e unable ib operate at over present value'':—Piime milling, to la 9d ; g-md to best feed, Is 7£d to la 8d ; m-dium, la 5-1.10 la 6§d $ inferior, la 3d to la 41, sack ' extra. ■ <

Barley.—There is practically" no business doing.

L’oni>on, July 10. At the wool sales there wns good oompetion, but prices are unchanged, AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Svdnrx, July 10. Wheat.—Chick,2s 5d to 2s 6d; milling, 2s 7d to 2s Bd. Flour, £5 15a to £6 ss; Manitoban, £lO 10a. O-ts Feed-ng, New Zealand prime, 2s Id to 2s 2d; m 'dium Is 8d t<> Is lOd; milling, 2s 2d; local sorts, Is 7d to Is lid. ~Barcley. —Feeding, to Is lid; needing, 2s 2d 1 Bran and Pol-ard, Bf-l. Potatoes. —Circular Heads, £6 to £6 10s. Onions,— Victorians, £ll to fill 10s ; . New Zealand, £9 to £9 10. Butter-New Zealand, Is Id to Is 2d CheeseL iaf, s£d to s|i ; large, sd. Bafion. New Zealand finches, SJd to SJtl.

The above quotations are those rulin' between merchant and retailer, and do not repress t the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. Melbourne, July 10.

Wheat, 24 H|d to 2a ;9d. Oa's, to Is 9£!. Barley Malting-, to. 3« 61; feeding, 2s Id. ferae, lid. Pollard, Potatoes, to £7. Onions, £lO 10a. Adb&vidb, July 16.

J Wheat, 2«8il to 2* 91. Oat-, to Is 9d Italian, Is 9d to 2- ; stout, 2s 3d to 2s 9d. Bran and pollard, ll^d.