Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 142, 17 December 1901, Page 2

Commercial.

bTUDHOLME SALE. There was a good entry at Situdholme on Friday, and a fair attendance. A ri-c of 1m perhead on late rates for sheep is recorded. Fat ewes brought front 10s 7d to I2s; two-tooth, shorn, Ps6l, 10s, 10s Gd to 11s l.i ; full mouth ewes with lambs at foot, in wool, all counted, brought 7s 6d; steers brought from £7 2s 6d, £7 7a Od to £8 2s 5d ; Sj ringers brought up to £5 ; yearlings, £2 8s ; iwo-ytar-old stores, £4 10s, TIMAKU MARKETS. Business on the Tiraaru grain market has been very slow dming the past week, owing to giowers demanding a higher price than buyers are prepared to give. For w'.eat 3a per bushel f.o.b. is demanded, but buyers are not prepared to give more than 2s 7d or 2a 8d per bushel, so that a deadlock has ensued In oats, Duns, Tartars, and Danish are worth 2a 3d per bushel on trucks, Timaru, but there is no enquiry at the price. In barley there is practically nothing doing. There is a very strong demand for fowl wheat and seconds, the supply being unequal to the demand, and orders have had to be refu-ed. Seconds ere worth 2s 4d, and fowl wheat 2s bd to 2s 8d per bushel, sacks extra in each case. CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS. The local grain and produce markets remain practically unchanged since last report. In wheat nothing is offering although' a lew enquiries are being made. Fanners seem to be h'ddmg on to stocks in the hope of being able to get equal to 3s f.o.b. There is still constant enquiry for ryegrass seed, but none offering, the stocks being held by merchants. Several large purchase? of barley have been made during the tveek, evidently on behalf of speculators. In produce there is no change whatever. The following are purrent prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and free of commission, except where otherwise spi oilied : Wheat —Hunter’s pearl and velvet, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; Tuscan, 2s lOd to 2s lid f.o.b. Oats (nominal), 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; short feed, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; duns, 2s 4d to 2a sd; Danish, 2s 2d to 2s 3d f.o.b. Barley (nominal) —Malting, 2» 3d to 2s 6d ; secondary, la 8d to la 10d at country stations. Beans, 2a 8d to 2s 9d f.o.b. Peas, nominal. Flour (millers’ quotations,—Roller, £6 15s. Sharps, £4. Bran, £3 10s. Oatmeal, £l3 f.o.b. Potatoes (nominal), £1 at country stations. Hay, £2 10s to £2 15s delivered. Giass Se‘ d— Ryegrasf, prime heavy town dressed, 3a to 3a 6d ; cocksfoot, to 2j}d ; town machine dressed, 1 Bio to 171 b old seed, 3Jd to B|d f.o.b. ; cowgrass, 6d to 6Jd ; extra choice, 7d ; white clover, 6d to 8d delivered. Dairy Produce —Cheese, factory, 4d to 4£d; dairy, 4d ; butter, factory, local, lid; North Island, 10d; dairy, 8d to 9d; salt (io boxes), 8d ; bacon, hams, s£d to 6Jd ; factory bacon and hams, id higher f.o.b.