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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3003, 19 June 1893, Page 3

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GRAIN AND PRODUCE

London, June 16 Frozen mutton, first quality, 4d :, sacond quality, 3 9-16 d; beef, fore-, quarters, 3|d ; hind-quarters. sd. JSew Zealand long-berried wheat, *x warehouse, is firmer at 30•> 3d. lor off oast ciiig; es se'lera asked 26-, b«fc buyers offer 6J iesa. South Australian wluav., ex warehouse i*. firmer at 33< ; Victorian ex-sra-ehous«, also tirm ab 02561. Fui Aus'raVian r.fFc^asfc cargoes SOa is as km 1. 3hd29.s6dw offesec*. At the wool salts there was a downward tendency in the merino classes. At the Bradford sales a decline is anticipated. Brisbane, June 17. The " Sugar Journal" estimates the Queensland crop at 80,000 tons.

The weather lately has been more stormy, and has, in addition to the quietness prevailing, tended still further to depress bu-iness. English cables continue to report a duil market, for wheat, with no immediate prospect of a recovery, in Christchurch the trade has been limited in demand, and there is no variation io notice in quotations. Hunters 2s 81 to 2s 9d, Pearl 2a 9d to 2s 10d, Tuscan 2s lOd to 2s lOjd. Fowl wheat ia m good demand at Is 9d to 2s 3d. Oats. —The prospects of a maintenance of present rates for milling quality are eood. For feed lines the demand is unaltered. Milling Is ll|d to 2a, stout feed Is lOd to Is IOJd, duns Is 8d to la lOd, feed sorts Is 6d to Is Bd, Barxjey.—Prime stands nominally at 4s to 4s 2d ; medium to good 3j 3d to 3s 9i. For the latter the market is not active. Beans and Peas display no appreciable change in price. Beans remain at 2s lOd to3sT Prussian Blues 3s to 3a 3d. Feed peas 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Potatoes.—Farmers are not selling under 32s 6d to 35s at country station*. Outside markets are not active, the chief outlet just now being int^rprovincial. Grass Seed. —In ryegrass a small trade only has passed. Farmers' lots at 2s 9d to 3s, town machine dressed 3s 3d to 3a 9d according to qualify of seed. A number of sales of cocksfoot have been made during the week, chiefly, however, from dealers' hands. For ordinary samples quotations are unchanged, but seed fie for shipping to the European markets is firmer. Within the last few days cables hare been received, pointing to an advance in London. This has elicited an enquiry for seed of thia quality, bub samples answering to the weight required are not over plentiful. We quote 2|d to 2|d for farmers' lots, and 3£i to 3^ ior town dressed. Dairy Produce.—Butter 61 to 8i ; factory lOd to lid ; cheese 3£d to 4:1.