Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 114, 12 October 1901, Page 2

Commercial.

WAIMATE MARKETS. s. d. a. d. Butter, wholesale 0 10 retail... 1 0 Eggs „ 0 7 „ 0 9 STUDHOLME JUNCTION SALE. At 3 his sale yesterday the entries comprised 1000 sheep, 100 head of cattle and 3 pigs. The sheep entries were made up chiefly of good store hogg.-ts, for which the demand was we.ik. A few pens of ewes with lambs at foot met a better demand: A good sale was effected in cattle at late rates. Sheep.—Sound mouthed, Jbred ewes with over 100 per cent of lambs, 8s 6d and 8s 91, all counted ; A bred hoggets, 13s6d;Jbred hoggets, 12s 6d, 13s and 13s 6d. Cattle.—No fat cattle yarded. Good 3-year old steers brought L 6 7s 6d ; 2 and 3-year old steers, L 4 2s 6d ; store cows, L2 17s 6>l, L 3 12s 6d toL4 ; springing cows and heifna, L 4 7s 6i, 2s 6d to L 5 10s ; 3 pedigree Ayrshire heifars in calf, L 7 2s 6.1, L 7 10s and L 7 10« ; yearling steers and heifers, LI 10a ; 18 months steers and heifers, L2 11s : calves, 12« to LI Is. Pigs.—Weaners, 9s.

ADDINGTON LIVE STOCK MARKET. Christchurch, October 9. Cattle—The yarding of fat cattle was exceptionally good, comprising 186 bead of very good sort*. There was a decided slump in prices in the case of heavy cattle; other and handier weights held their own well and were eagerly sought for. Ordinary steers Sold at from £6 7» 6d to £10104; heifers, from £5 10j to £9 10s > cows, from £5 7a 6d to £8 10s. Eully Is per 1001 b drop marked the sale ot heavyweights, best beef bringing up to 27s p : r 1001 b; cow and ordinary beef sold at from 21s upwards. Store cattle were only in moderate supply. Yearlings sold at fro n 18s to 20s; fifteen to months bid cattle, ' from 35s * to £2 15s 6d; two-year-old steers, at £4 2s 6d ; two-year-old heifers, at £4; three-year-old heifers, at £6 2s 6d ; dry cows, from 30* to £4, according to quality and condition.

Sheep —The fat sheep numbered about 4000, but the sabs were chu-fly to the local trade. Superior merino wethers fetched from 13s 8d up to 20s, crossbred wctheiß from 17s 3d to 22a 6d; butchers’ ewes, from 13s to Ida. Export buyers dealt only with very prime sheep, and many entries were not well finished" owing to the backwardness of the season, but for really good mutton a rise of 6d per head on last week’s prices may be noted. Only forty fat lambs were penned, the price ranging from lls 6d to 20s. In store sheep, 2000 were entered, but the demand was weak, and the balk were withdrawn.

Pigs—4oo pigs were penned. Best quality bacone>s sold at £2 2s to £2l7s 6d ; porkers, 27s to 325; weaners, 7s to 10s; slips, 12a

BURNSIDE MARKET.

Dunedin, October 9. Cattle—lßl head, of ' fat .cattle were yarded, mostly medium weight bollocks and fair, heifers, Competition was keen, the price* almost equalling last week’s high rates. Best beef brought 26* to 38s per 1001 b. Best bullocks sold at £9 7s 6d to £ll 2s 6d; medium,: £8 to£9 6s; others, £b 2s 6d to £7l7s 6d j beat ouws, £7,to £9 2a6d; medium, £5 io £6 17s hd V btbarei£3l7s'fd tb‘£sls». . Sheep—l 762 fat sheep were penned, of ayerure quality, a good fow J p*na being very heavy crossbreds, and one or two pens of prime merino wethers excited keen competition. The tirade being but of muttcni oompctitlon was keen, prices showing an advanoe of Is to Is 6d on those of'last .week. Good crossbred wstheriSoid atffrom 18s iblSfk V* t*w .extra, to 38s 6dj mediarh- wethers, 16s to 17s 9d; others, UatolfiaJdj best «nn>'

bred ewes, 16s to 18s; others, 13a to 15* 9d; prime merino wethers, 16s to 17s 3d. Forty lambs were penned, 'which sold under fair competition at lie to 15«. Pigs—l3o pigs were penned, which met with a ready sale at prices in favour of vendors. Suckers -sold at 4a to 9s; slips, 10s to 14«; stores, 17s -6d to 90s; porkers, 23s to 32s ; baconers, 37s to 465; heaAy pigs, 60s to 70s. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. Wheat—lnquiry is made for fowl wheat, in which grade there is a tendency to class medium milling. Sales of prime milling are readily made for local con* sumption, but the market shows ho sigh oi improvement. Pr>me velvet and Tuscan are quoted at 2* 9£d to 2s lOd ; medium,. 2s 7d to 2s 8d; whole fowl wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 7d; broken do, 2s 3d to 2s fid. Oats—The market is still very firm, and all shipping parcels coming in find prompt buyer* at values a shade above those last reported. Practically all sales are made off trucks at the satisfactory prices obtainable, growers. having cancelled all instructions to “ store for a rise.” Prime milling.is qnoted at 2s4i*t, good to best feed, 2s 3d to 2a 4d ; inferior to medium, Is lOd to 2s 2£d (sacks ex ra.

AUSTRALIAN MARKET. Sydney, October 9. Wheat, Chick, 2s 8d; ■ milling, 2b lOd. Flour, £6 10* to £6 15s; Manitoban, £ll. Oats, New Zealand feed, B, to 3a; mill* ing, 3s to 3s Id. * ' *■ Maize, prime, 2s lid. Barley, C*pe, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Br an, BJd. Pollard, Bid. Potatoes, New Zealand derwents, B£ss, Circular Head, £7. Onions, American, £ls to £l6. Butter, creamery made. lOd. Cheese New Zealand, s£d to 6d. Bacon, 6d to BJd. Hams, New Zealand, B£d. ENGLISH MARKET. The Canterbury Farmers* Co-operaffve Association, Limited, have received the following information by cablegram from their London office :—“ Frozen meat.— We quota to day’s value on Smithfield market of prime Canterbury. lambs,, 2a lid per stone of 81bs, market, weak; . i for prime Carterbury mutton 2s 7f per stone of 81bs, marker, steady. Wool.— The market for crossbreds is drooping-’, Messrs Dalgety report as follows* under dale London, October Bth:—The first of wool (niles have' been fixed to opan on the 21st January, the second series on the 11th March, and the tdird series on the 29th April. The quantities of n«w wool to be admitted an limit* to 230,000 bales for the first senes, 230,000 bales for the second series, and 400,000 bales for the third eerie?. The . sales will be suspended from the 15th to the 21st May.