Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 291, 4 December 1902, Page 2

Commercial.

THE OAMABU MARKET REPORT. Attention has been in a large measure distracted from the ordinary course of business during the past week, and transactions in grain are very limited. There has, however, been a sharp advance in prices, in sympathy with that which has taken place elsewhere, but it is almost impossible to fix values with any degree of certainty, as no transactions are reported. The scarcity of mi’dmg wheat has caused an advance in prices, but for the moment millers are not operating. The demand for fowl wheat continues, and prices have advanced to the same extent as milling wheat, but the quotations ate nominal in the absence ot sates. A few lines of feed oats have changed bands at advanced prices. Flour has been raised in price to £l2 locally and for export. Potatoes have taken a sudden turn in consequence of the short supplies, and are now worth £5 to £5 10s on trucks, at sidings. More is reported to have been given for good samples. Wheat —Prime velvet, 4s 8d to 4s 9d : Tuscan and red chaff, 4s 7d to 4s 8d; good velvet, 4s 7d to 4s 8d ; fowl wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d according to quality. (All quotations are nominal). Oats—Danish, good feed, 2s Cd to 2s 7d ; Cartons and short feed, 2s 7d to 2s 8d; milling, 2s 9d; disco’oured and damaged samples, 2s 3d to 2s 54. (Quotations nominal). Barley—Prime malting, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; medium, 2s lOd to 3s Id; feed, 2s 8d to 2s lOd.

Potatoes —Derwents, £5 to £5 10s, at sidings (sacks in, net). —N.O. Times.

ASHBURTON STOCK SALE

Ashburton, December 2.

There was an average attendance at Tinwald yards, and a small entry of sheep and cattle. Prices were equal to late rates. Cattle—Store dairy cows brought £6 10s ; 18 months’ old steers, £2 17s 6d ; fat heifers, £6 7s 6d ; steers, £6 ; cows, £6 10s to £lO 10a. Sheep—Fat crossbred ewes (shorn) brought 7s 3d to 14s 2d ; shorn crossbred wethers, 4d ; crossbred ewes in wool. 12s Cd to 17s 4d ; merino wethers (shorn), 8s Gd. In store sheep crossbred ewes with lambs at foot all counted brought 8s 6d to llsbd ; do shorn, 6s 8d ; hoggets in wool, 14s 6d ; shorn wethers, 14s 2d.

ENGLISH MARKETS

Sheep—Canterbury, 5d ; North Island, 4 13 16d ; River Plate sheep, heavy, 4 7-16 d.

The wool market is very excited, and p icei are exceedingly firm. The Wa-pahi clip realised B|d ; Longburn, 6sd; Greeulield, 7£d. The quantity catalogued to date amounts to 47,740 hales, of which 46,224 bales have been sold.

ADDINGTON MARKETS,

Christchurch, December 3

There was a moderate entry of stock as the rain of the previous day had prevented consignments from being sent forward. There was a fair attendance and prices tor all kirn's of stock were good. Sheep —In the store sheep pens 1692 head were offered, all lots being sold at improved rates, hoggets especially being in good demand. The chief sales were : 91 wethers at 14s Id, 231 at 14s, 100 at 13s 3d, 276 at Us lid, 150 woolly hoggets 14s 3d, 123 at 14s 3d, 131 at 13s lOd, 131 woolly ewes with lambs 8s 7d and 94 at 8s 6d. There were 584 fab lambs penned and while competition was good, prices were a shade easier in consequence of the sumu.er freezing rates being in force at all the factories. There were 193 taken for freezing at 13s 6d to 15s 9d and 391 were bought by butchers at 13s to 15s 9d and a few extra good at 18s 9d. Fat sheep weie in moderate supply and the market opened at about last week’s rates.

Cattle—The supply of beef comprised 223 head, mostly prime quality. The market opened irregularly but improved later on and closed at last week’s ratesi Steers made £6 17s 6d to £l2 15s, heifers £6 15s to £ll and extra to £ll *l7s Gd and cows £5 15s to £lO 5s and extra £ll 2s Gd, equal to 30s to 36s per 1001 b.

; Pigs—A medium entry of pigs met with a fair sale for fats, baconers being a little easier while there was a very keen . demand for stores. Baconers made 42s 61 to 54s and o,ne ex' ra pen 655, equal to 4|d to 5d per lb, porkers 29s to 38s equal, 1 to 5d per lb, stores 16j to 32s and suckers and weaners 12s 6d to 15s. TIMARU WOOL SALES. The first wool sales for the season opened in Timaru yesterday morning in the Theatre Royal. The catalogues were large and there was a numerous attendance of English buyers, ai d all the colonial mills were represented. The wool for the most part was of good quality and in good condition and the gratifying features of the sale were the enhanced prices ruling, and the spirited bidding throughout for all good lots. Merino, of course, was in greatest demand, and up to the time of going to press the best price obtained for this class of wool was IOJd, this being realised by Messrs Dalgety and Co. for three bales of merino ewe. Halfbred realised sd, 6d, 7d and B|d, while crossbred was selling at 4£d, 4|d to s|d, and threequarter bred up to 6sd. Messrs Maling and Shallcraes obtained lid for greasy merino from Tripp’s Orari Gorge Station and up to 15|d for scoured halfbred from Rockwood (Mr Sargent’s)—Peso. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, December 3. Wheat, 6s 3d ; New Zealand chick, 6s. Flour, £ll 10s to £l2 ; Manitoban, £l2 10s to £l2 15s. Oats, New Zealand and Tasmanian, prime feeding, 3s 9d to 3s lOd ; milling, 3s lOd ; Algerian, 3s 7d to 3s Bd. Barley, Cape, 4a Id to 4s 3d. Maize, prime, 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; Argentine, 4s 9J, Bran, Is lOd. Pollard, 2s. Potatoes, £9 to £10; New Zealand Derwents, £9. Onions, £4 10s to £5; Victorian, £3 10s to £4. Batter, to lid. Cheese—The market is glutted. Prices range from 6d to 9d< Bacon. Hid to is 2d. The above quotations are those ruling between merchant and retailer, and do not represent the slightly lower values obtained by recognised brokers. Melbourne, December 3. Wheat, 5s 8d to 5s lOd, nominal. Flour, £l2; Manitoban, £l3. Oats, Algerian, 3s 5d to 3s 6d ; milling, 3t 7d. Barley, feeding, 4s 2d to 4s 4d; malting, 4s 10d to 5s 3d. Maize, 4s lOd fo 4s lid. Bran, Is lOd; pollard, Is lid. Potatoes, £> to £9 10s.