COMMERCIAL.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8097, 13 February 1892, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

! Operations in this maitet have not yet I assumed any important dimensions, and sales of new grata have been comparatively few. When we last wrote rain waa setting in, «ad until (be last day or two it fell with pitiless severity, completely I charming the bright prospect ox last month. - The weather fortunately has again takes op, and it is earnestly to be hoped that rain will keep away for the next week-or two. The-advisableness of delaying threshing until the crops have had time-to sweat in stack has been fu!ly impresaed on far mere, and in view of the doubtful condition of a large proportion of wheat recently cat, shipment to England this year will be the risky business that it was in 1883 and ISS4. Wheat.— Prices for this cereal have not yet assumed a clear-cut form, partly owing to uncertainty as to valuee, and partly owing to fear as to the carrying capacity of the bulk of the season's crop. Cables report a firmer tendency in the Home market* which has naturally been reflected here. Oats are si If & -ly weaker, and buyers, in the absence o s> iy outside demand, hesitate to pay t c igures current of late. Baklkt.— of new season's are still very meagre, so that prices are not yet determined. Grass Seeds. —Bye grass has met with a quiet bac steady demand, and values have "shown no quotable change. In Cocksfoot nothing has yet transpired locally. Samples, however, of good bright North Island seed have been put on the market, and sales have been effected at 8d per lb f.o.b. Lyttelton. Dairy Phoducs.— Butter has not altered appreciably, but Home shipments are gradualiv diminishing with the' advance of the' shipping season. Cheese calls for no special comment. The following are the quotations of the day:— Wheafc-Tnacaa - - 3a 9d PeAri .. .. 3«Sd Hunter's .. .. 3«6d Oidckwheat - 3s Oats—Milling .. .. Is ddtolsSd Do.—Siuuusiiortfeed .. la 5d to Is 74 Do—lnferior ordinary feed Is 5d Bwley—Prime mAlong .. 3s to 3s 3d Feed .. .. Is9dto2a Mtniium .. .- 2st«itoJ3 9d Scans .. .. -• 2slodto3d. Peas—Blue Prussians .. 3s to 3s ad Keod .. .. .. SJ3Bdto2«lol Seeds— Ryegrass, machine dressed .. .. 356dt033 9d Ryegrass, farmcrs'drcß?ect .. .. 23 odto3« Cocksfoot .. .. nominally 3d Red clover, coionialgrown .. .. 63toCJ4 Cowgrass, colonialgrown .. .. CJdtoTd Floor, in Back* (roller) .. £13 Flour (stone) .. .. «i 2 Oatmeal .. .. .. £'J to 69 10a Pearl barley .. .. £13 Bran £3 Pollard £3 Butter—Prime factory (keg) 7d to 8i Cheese .. .. .. id to 51 Hams and bacon—ln cloth 7d, 7W Prices for the above <tie f.o.b. as ijyr.*elton.