THE PRESS.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9295, 21 December 1895, Page 5

THE PRESS.

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produce. Green feed is so abundant at present all over the country that naturally the consumption of oats aud chaff ia reduced to a mere nothing, and business is beiug done purely on a hand-to-mouth basis. The falling off in orders has naturally had the effect of weakening prices somewhat, and buyers are displaying just now complete apathy in respect to both oats and chaff. Nominally good stout short are worth 2s 2d to 2* 3d f.0.b., and Danish and duns 2s to 2s Id.

Wheat —Stocks on hand are pretty light now, but it is questionable whether the demand between this and the new harvest will absorb all that is still unsold. At all events, there is hardly any chance of any absolute scarcity, as there is now but little time to tide over. Prices keep fairly steady, and Tuscan and Hunter's may still be quoted at 3s 8d to 3s 91, Pearl 3i 91 to 3s 10J. We have not hoard of any sales in town to-day. The Victorian crop is turning out on the whole better by far than was at one time expected, and, as far as can be gathered up to the present, the quality is all round very fair. The crops of Barley aud Oats, too, are yielding better than first reports indicated, and the effect ii already very noticeable in the complete collapse of any speculative buying, even at reduced prices on those that were being asked a month since. Business will nob be likely to show any marked improvement in grain until after the new year, aud the effect on prices arising from the removal of the New South Wales duties will then be determined. [These quotations, unless otherwise specified, are the net cash prices paid to the producer free of brokerage or commission, and for delivery at country stations within a twenty-live mile radius of town. For delivery on board ship at Lyttelton add 2d to 2£_* per bushel.]