Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 184, 3 August 1901, Page 2

Commercial.

WAIMATE MAEKETS. ' Butter, wholesale 011 retail... 1 1 Eggs „ 1 0 .. 1 2 STUDHOLME HORSE BALE. Messrs Guinness and LeCren (per Mr D. P. McLean, local agent) report holding a special sale of horses at Studholme yards on Thursday. The entry comprised sixty-five, including some first-class draughts and light harness horßes. Notwithstanding the cold day the attendance must have numbered 300, and including buyers from all over the district and also ironi Chnstchurch, Oamaru, Timaru and Albury. Competition was Very keen for all-round hoases, and the sale is said to have been the beßt held at Studholme since theolearing sale of horses on accouut of the Waimate Estate. A good clbarancn was effected, and about ?eventy-five per cent of the draughts and better classes of ha-uen* horses and tweniy-five per cent of the hacks found new owners. Quotations, are as follows :—Young, sound draughts, £30,'£32, £3210<, £33 10*, £36. £36 10s.' £BB, £39, £4O 10m, £42, £43, £45, £4B ; aged draughts. £lO, £l9 10s, £25, £2B ; young, sound harness horses, £lB, £23, £26, £?7 10s; hacks and light horses, from £7 to Ll2; 2-year-<->ld draughts, unbroken, Ll2, Ll's. Ll 9; 2-fear-old unbroken light hoises, Ll2, Ll 3 ; yearling ponies L 4, Lslo*, L 6, L6lss; year\v<m draughts (in poor condition)) Ll 5, L17,L18 ss. BUBNSIDE MARKETS. Dunedin. July 31. Cattle.—At the Bnrnside market 137 head of fat c ittle were yarded. Prices sh wed no advance on last week's, bast bullocks rcrtli-ing £9 to £lO 12s 6<l ; medium, £7 10s to £3 15» ; light, £6 to £7 2>; 6d.; bes' cows and heifers, £6 5s to £7; medium, £5 to £5 15s; inferior, £2 15U0£4. Sheep.—The 2612 fat sheep penned were mostly t-wcs of nice quality. ExporlOr- were, operating to no extent, binding lacked spirit and'prices weie le below hUt week's. Extra prime hetvy wethers sold at 20s to 20- 9d ; prime, 17s tolßs9d; medium, 15--* 9d to 16s Gi; small, 14s to 15s 6>l ; l.<-st ewes, 14s 8d t<14a 9d ; ordinary, 12s 6d to 14s: O-ily 114 fat lambs w<re penned. The best sold at to 13 ~; med.um, 11a to lis 6d. Pigs.—Eighty-seven were penned, Sucker* fold at 4s to 9s 6d ; slips, IS? 6o |tol7 <; porkers, 25s to 35s ; baconers, 40* to 50s. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. Dcnedin, Juiy 31. Oats. —The demand is very k-on, anc with offerings small, price? advanced Prime mdling are now worth Is IOJd tc Is lid; best feed, Is 10cl ; medium an' inferior, frum Is 4d to Is 9fcd per bushtl sacks extra. Wheat. -There is a much stronge demand, and prices have advanced al toiind. Prime velvet and Tuscan, 2s 8c to2s3£d; medium, 2* M to 2s 7'£d fowl f«4d, from 2a 4d to 2s 5d for beat ».nd from Is lOd to 2s 3d for broken packs in. LONDON MAEKETS. London, July 31. The wheat and flour Mflnat for th United Kingdom total 3,100 000 quarters

and for thuConi.inont 1,460,000 quarters. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Stdney, July 31. Wheat.— Cluck, 2s 6d ; milling, 2* 7d to &i: Flour. £5 15* to £6 5* : Manitoban, £lO 10s to £ll. Oats Prime New Zealand feeding B, 2a I'd to . 2- 2d; C, Is Sd to Is 10d ; milling, 2e-3d. Bnrl«y 2s Id to "2s 2d. Pollard, BJd to B£d ' Potatoes —New Zealand Durwents, £5 10b to £5 15a ; Circular Heads, £6 10 to. £6 15s. Ouione, prime .Victorian, £ls. Butter —Factory, lid ; crramery Is. Cheese—New Zealand, 5d to6d. Bacon, 6d to B£d. Ham, New Zealand, 8d to S}d. The above quotations are those ruling b (ween merchant »nd retailer, and do not represent the slighMy lower valuer obtained by recognised brokers. Adelaide, July 31.

Whea*.. dull at 2s 8d to 2d 9d. Flour, steady, £6 ss. Bran and pollard, stocks low.