GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10266, 8 February 1899, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

(BY OT7R COMMERCIAL EDITOR.) Tuesday Evening. There is still very little life in the wheat market, practically none of the old season's crop changing hands. New wheat is beginning to move off in small parcels, either for local consumption or for coastal shipment. For prime new Tuscan 2s 4£d to 2s 4sd, f.0.b., has been paid, several sales having been made on the basis of these values. For a large line 2s 3d, f.0.b., was refused. There is a fair enquiry for cats, especially for milling varieties, of which there are few samples offering. Duns are worth Is 3d, sparrowbills Is 4d, and Canadians Is 6d, f.0.b., and at these figures several sales have taken place. There is a demand for new oatsheaf chaff for local consumption, and 40s delivered in town is being offered. The samples of barley offering are very much out of condition, and are evidently from that portion of the crop that stood a length of time in the stook awaiting threshing. The weather lias been against the successful harvesting of the cocksfoot crop, and the samples now being sent in are all more or less discoloured. The early varieties of potatoes are now being offered, but as they are not yet ripe enough for shipment mereliants do not care to purchase, more especially as the Sydney market is looked upon as uncertain. The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, for direct shipment from country stations and free of commission, except where otherwise specified: — Old wheat (nominal) —Good to prime quality pearl 2s lOd to 2s lid, Tuscan 2s lOd to 2s lid, Hunter's 2s 6d to 2s 7d, second quality wheat about 3d lower, new wheat 2s _d to 2s 3d at country stations. Oats—Good stout teed 2s, fair short feed Is lOd to Is lid, new Is 2d to Is 4d at country stations. Barley—New, 2s 6d to 3s delivered. Beans (nominal).; Peas—Blue Prussians 4s, partridge or maple 3s 3d to 3s 6d. Flour (miners' quotations, nominal)— Roller £8, stone £7. Sharps—£3. Bran—£2 10s Oatmeal—£l2. Old Oatsheai Chaff (nominal) —555; new 355, at country stations. Potatoes—Kidneys, Beauty of Hebron and Early Rose 50s, for immediate delivery if ripe ; Derwents 30s, off forks, April—May delivery, at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, farmers' lots Is 6d to 2s 6d; cocksfoot 2£d for off colour, 2-fd for bright; clovers nominal. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory 4d to 4id, loaf 4d to sd; butter, factory (local) 9d, dairy 6d to 7d, salt (in boxes) 5d to 6d; bacon 7d, do roll 7d to 7id; hams 8d; factory bacon and ham higher.