Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 278, 4 November 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

, VV AIM ATE WEEKLY AUCTION. Messrs Guinness and LsCren, Ltd report that, at this sale there was a very fair yarding, and prices were if anything in excess of previous quotations. The following are a fe>v of the prices : Pi js -Suckeis and weaners, frcm 10s to 13s 6d ; sow in pig, £3 ; bow with litter at foot, £1 10s. Cuttle -0 ,e springer, £4 10a ; 1 hoif r, £4 18s.

Poultry—Pure Minorca roosters, 5s r -ach ; Minorca hens, 5s per pair ; ordinary sorts, 2s 6 I to 3s 2.1 per pair. Ducks, 2s 2d each.

Potatoes—Brat Dervvents, 8s to 9a; seed do. 5s to 7s.

Fowl wheit, 10*61 to 12s,

TIM AllU MARKETS

The week has been a very quiet one, the Show and holiday Making having dislocated buaineas. The markets are still firm at last week’s quotations, name 13,4.531 for voive l -, and 4s Id to 4s 21 for red chaff and Tuscan. For the very primest of velvet in small lines 4a 3£d can be got, while for best qualities of chick wheat ready sales can be made up to 5s 4d. Oats are firm at 2s 4d to 2s 61 for best and 2a to 2s 3d for discoloured. Feed barley and potatoes show no change. -*-Herald.

HORSE SALE. The Can eibury Farmer*’ Co-operative Association report* on the horse sale at Tattersall’* yards, Timaru, on Saturday as follows:—The entry comprised 50 draught, light harness and hackney horses, including a number of unbroken horses. The sale was a good one, especially tor young farm horses. An improvement was noticeable in the demand for harness horses, and upstmding sorts sold well. A complete clearance was made of all horses answering the abore description at the following quotations: Young draughts with trial", £3l, £34, £3B, £39, £4O. £4l, £42 10a. £43 to £47; aged draughts, £2O. £22 10s, £23, £24, £2B to £3O ; three year unbroken draught geldings, £35, £36 to £39 10s; harness horses, £l6, £l7 10s, £lB to £22 10s; hacks, £lO 10s, £l2, £l4, £ls 10s, £l7 to £2l. An unbroken three-year-old gelding by Champion was sold at £56 ; three four-year-old fillies by The Mackenzie at £47, £49 and £sl respectively ; and a four-year-old gelding at £4B.

OAMARU MARKET REPORT. The interest for the week has centred round the steady enquiry for prime milling velret, local millera apparently taking all such samples without hesitation at up to 4a 3d, ex stare. There is, however, practically no supply, for wheat of this sort is getting into small compass, and holders are disposed to wait. In consequence of this enquiry and scarcity of supply prices have improved, and transactions have taken place at a penny better th n those of a fortnight ago. In Dunedin the improvement in price is even more marked. There is the usual enquiry for fowl feed, prices being unchanged. Feed oats, of good quality, are also in good demand, but a very large proportion of the oats in this district being more or less discoloured, no transactions are reported, and prices remain unchanged. Potatoes continue to ease, and salee have been made in the last day or so that will not yield the grower £3 7s fid net, at aiding*. That, indeed, is now the outside price obtainable. Dunedin advices are that it is difficult to find a market at £4 there. Flour has been advanced to £ll per ton, in sacks during the week, this being in consequence of steady improvement in the price of wheat since the price of flour was last raised. Millers, in faot, say that were it not for the good prices for offal ruling just now gristing would not pay at the present prices of whsat and Hour.

We quote for produce, ex store, sacks 4Jd extra, except where otherwise stated. Wheat (new) —Prime velvet, 4s 2d to 4s 3d ; tuscan, 4s l£d ; good velvet and red" chaff, to 4s Id; discoloured or damaged wheat for fowl feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd, and 3s to 3s Id for better qualities. Oats—Danish, good, 2s 3d to 2s 4d ; Qartona or short feed, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; milling, 2s fid ; discoloured and damaged samples, 2s to 2s 2d, according to quality. Barley—Prime malting, 3s to 3s 2d ; medium, 2s 9d to 3s; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d.

Potatoes—Derwents, £3 5j to £5 7s fid at sidings (sacks in, net). Butter—Dairy, 9d ; factory, Is. Eggs, Bd, Cheese, sid. Flour, in 200’s, £ll. Bran, £8 10s. Pollard, £5 10*. Oatmeal, in 25’s, £l4' Pork, suitable weight*. Bacon, 7id. Hams, Bd. —N.O. Times.