Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 151, 11 January 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

—;—. . ;o :—'■■ " , WAIMATE MARKETS .. s. d. s. d Butter, wholesale 0 6 retail... 0 8 Eggs „ 0 6 „ 0 8 STUDHOLMB JUNCTION SALE. At the nßual week'y sale springers brought £5 7s 6d, cows, fat, £6 7s 6d ; 'steers, £5 10s; yearlings to 31s; cow* in milk to £6 10s; calves, to 14s; ewetf and lambs, 7s lOd ; shorn ewes and lambs, 7s 6d; store sheep, 10s 4dj fab sheep, 11a to 13s 4d. ; THE BURN6IDE MARKET. Dunedin s January 8. Cattle.—l 72 head ,of fat cattle were yarded, including some fair to prime bollock*, which realised prices slightly in. advantage of late values; medium also met a fais sale. Best bullook* brought £8 to £lO 17s 6d, medium £slos to £7 10s, best cows a- d. heifers-£6 to £7lo»i others £8 to £5 10s. 7 * M , ' fat sheep wer* penned. Good t& prime wethers and ew*a met with good competition at Is 6d to & above last week's prices/" Best 'crossbred wether* apld at 16a to 18a, - Medinm-14s to 16« 6d, b«st ewes 14s to, 17s 3d, medium 1 9* to Jfor fJta fo* fwnbs, ,367 weft penned. Beat ijoH*t Xbs to 14s 3d, or4inary 7s Wtp&Oa**.; ' ~- ". ■ JSan- Only W JWg*, -w*» I J*^*

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Wheat —The local stocks are practically exhausted, and little or no wheat is coming forward. Prime velvet and Tuscan are quoted at 3s Id to 3s'2d, medium to good 2a JBd to Bs, sacks in. Oats,—Consignments meet with ready ; clearaeces at a slight advance on late 1 rates. Prime milling is quoted at 2i good to best feed 2s 4dto2s4£d, medium 2s 2d to 2a 4d, sacks extra. < _ Barley.—All classes, of barley are in fair demand at slightly better values. Prime malting (liakes) is quoted at 2a lOd to 3s'3d, medium 2s 6d to 2s 9d, milling 2* 4d to 2s >-6d, feed'2s to 2a 3d, sacks extra. DUNEDIN WOOL SALE. > ~ Dunbdin; January 9. The first wool sale of the season was held to-day. There was a large attendance of buyers' representative of the dfferent woollen mills in the country, J and also of English firms. Prices, though considerably lower than those prevailing on the same date last year, in most cases exceeded anticipations from reports ' fur nib hed by the late London sales and other parts of the colony. The feature of the sale was the spirited manner in which well-grown ergs-bred hogget wool wis competed for, prices reaching tn some cases within a fraction ..f last year's rates. This was also the casein connection with' pieces, be'ließ, etc. On ordinary crossbred fleece there was a <lrop of sxnewbere about 20 par cent, a,nd on halfbred'lo per cent. Prices were as f-'idowa^:—Goodhalfbreds, 6d to 7£d ; diney and faulty, 421 to s|d ; fine croasbn-d fleece k\\- to SJd, course 3d to 4d ; fine cro>sbrel hogg't 4£d to coarse Z\\ to 4£d. ;' AUSTRALIAN WOOL MARKET, Sydney, January 9. At the opening wool salds of t!>e year the attendance was large and competition animated. Prices for meritfos at the Sydney *alea advanced |d, hu' crossbreds «re unchanged compared wi'h the closing sales of last year In Melbourne merinos advanced from 5 tolOpereeDfc. Crossbreds are irregular, but in some cases are 10 per cent higher.