Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 264, 2 October 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

M, DUNEDIN GKAIN aIARKiST. I Donedin, October 1. F. Messrs Donald # Beid and Co report prices as follows : Oats—Prime milling and seed lines, 2s Brt to 2s lid ; good to best feed, 2s 5d to 2s 7d ; inferior and medium, 2s to 2s 4d. Wheat—Prime milling, 3t lOd to 4s 3d; medium to good, 3a 4d to 3s 9d ; good whole fowl wheat, 33 to 3s 3d ; broken and damaged, 2s 61 io3s. jftjJßarley—Quotations unchanged. W Potatoes—Prime Derwents, £5 to 5 hi ; medium to good, £4 5a to £4 15s; inferior and other sorts, £3 10s to £4. Chaff-Prime oaien aheaf, £5 to £5 os: medium to good, £4 lo £4 15s; inferior and straw chaff, £2los to £3 10b. WASHDYrvE SCOOK SALE. The Wushdykfl yards vera occupied on Tuesday by about 300 fat and 700 store slnep, competition for wnicb was keen. Prices realised were an follows:—F.<t withers, 16* 3d, 16s 6d, 16s 9d, 17s, 17« 6d, 17s lOd; merino wethers, I2i lOd Pts from 101, 10s 6d to lis;. 2-tooths, 12a 3d ; another 1 in at 13a 61. In the cattle in milk sold at £4 10s, £5

ASHBUKTON STOCK SALE. Ashbueton, Sep'ember 30. There was a large attendance at the Ashburton y*rda to-day. There was a good entry of cattle and Bheep. The cattle sale was dragging, but the sheep sale was spirited, the market showing an advance of from Is to Is 6d per head as the result of impioved pro»pects for feed, which after the rains is coming on rapidly. C*cile —Stores, eighteen months, sold at £3 16* and two at £2 ss, ca'vei 355, springer £3 6s, yearlings ■ 17s 6d; butchers' sorts, good steer* £6 10s to £6 12s 9d, a mixed line at £6 each, steers £5 7s 6d, £5 17s 6d, £6, £6 si, to £6 17s 6d. Sheep—Fat wetharn, 16b 3d to 18s Id ; maiden ewes, 2 and 4-tooth, 19s 9d ; halfbred ewes, 13s ; fat merino ewes, Bs, 9* 6d to lis; wethers, 17s to 17s 9d; 4tooth wethers, 16a; half-bred wethers \ 15s 4d ; merino ewes, 13s, 4-tooth > W with lambs at foot, 9s; ewe 3in kmb, 6d and 14s Gd ; halfbred wethers, tooth heavy weight, 17s 6d ; freezers wethers 2, 4 and 6-tooth, 15s ; halfbred hoggets, 13s 101 ; ewes in lamb, all counted, 9s 8d to 10s 9d ; with two lambs each, 2-toovh ewes, 10s 4d; down hoggets off tussock, 9s lOd; o ward store lambs off tussock, 10s 9d ; store hoggets, 10s lla and 8s ; inferior e in lamb, 7s 6d.

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET. Chrutchurch, October 1There was a medium entry ot stock in the yards and a good attendance. All classes of fat stock were in keen demand and sold at high rates. There were only 1081 store sheep offered, the bulk being hoggets, which were mostly passed in. There was an improved enquiry for ewes and lamb«, but dry sheep sold at late rates. There were several lines of shorn shetp, the first seen in the market this season. The " chief sales were : 82 hoggets, lis 4d, 87 at 9s 9d, and 81 shorn 8* ; 171 wethers lis 4d, 66 at 13s 2d, 66 shorn lis Id, 170 ewes and lambs 7s 7d. In the fat lamb pens 50 were offered, and they sold at lis to 16s 6d, the bulk | making 13s to 14s. The yarding of }fak I sheep was about the same in numbers ai 1 last week. There were a few lines of prime wethers and ewes, but a large proportion was of medium quality. There was keen competition at the opening of the sale, and freezers sold up to 21s. In the fat cattle pens only 112 head were offered, and the short supply caused a f urthei rise in values. The quality was mostly prime, the cows being above the average. Steersjraade £lolss to £l2 10s; heifers, £6 10s to £8 ; a few light «owb, £6 to £8 10s ; prime, £9 10s to £lO 2s 6d, and up to £l3 2s 6d. For extra, equal to 28s to 355, and in a few cases up to 37s 6d per 1001 b. An average yarding of pigs met with good competition, fats being a little firmer, and there was a better demand for stores, which were mostly small sorts. Baconers made 38s to 535, and a few extra to 645, equal to 4id to 4|d per Jb ; porkers, 26s to 335, equal to 5d per lb ; stores, 15s to 23a, aad suckers and weaners, 6s to 12g. CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Christchukch, September 30. The wheat market is quiet but firm. There is a fairly ateady demand from the North Jslaud, but local and southern millers are not operating. Prices remain about the same, a fairly large line of good quality Pearl having been sold ex store, equal to 4s, at a country station, which is on a par with quotations. The easing off in the demand for Australia hat caused a reduction in the price of bran and pol Jard, which are now quoted at £5 10s per con. Oats are very scarce, and it is difficult to obtain supplies for shipment to the North Island, which is now the principal customer. The recent rough weather has improved the demand in the north for both oats and oatsheaf chaff, and the latter is alto offering less freely than is required. Our Southland correspondent writes :—" There has been little or

nothing doing in the oata market for several weeks past, and prices remain as before, namely, 2s 3d at wayside stations, sacks extra, for feed oats of passable quality. No quantity of really good oata remain in the market just now, and the reported sale of 28,000 sacks for South Africa would about clear stocks. During the week 3500 sacks were shipped to Melbourne, and 2000 sacks to Sydney." The potato market is without change, except that prices are, it anything, weaker. Buyers are offering £3 16s, at which price holders do not care to sell, and there is consequently no business doing. There are no outside orders on the market at present. The following are current prices paid to farmers, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified : Wheat—Hunters and Tuscan, 3s lid, Pearl, 4s to 4s Id at country stations, according to distance from port. Oats—Long feed, 2s 3d to 2a 4d ; short feed, 2s 4d to 2s 5d ; milling Canadians 2s 6d at country stations. Barley (nominal)—Prime, 3s to 3s 6d at country stations. Flour (Millers' quotations)—Boiler £lO 10s per ton. Pollard, £5 10a. Bran, £5 10s. Oatmeal, £l4. Potatoes (nominal)—Derweats £3 lfis at country stations. Oatsheaf chaff, £3 5s to £3 10s at country stations. Grass seed—Ryegrass, prime heavy, town dressed, 4s 3d to 4s 6d; Italian ryegrass, town dressed, 4s 6d j cocksfoot, 3d for off colour, to 3±d • for bright 121 b, '3§d for bright 141 b seed j town machine dressed, 4Jd to 4|d ; white clover, 8d to 9£d ; cowgras*, weathered, 5d to 6id. Dairy produce—Cheese, factory, 3d to sid ; dairy, 4£d to sd; butter, factory, local, ll$d; North Island lid ; dairy, lOd for prime; salt (in boxes) 9d ; bacon, hams, 7d to 8d ; factory bacon and hams, Jd higher f.o.b.—Press.