GRAIN AND PRODUCE MAERETS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10886, 1 July 1899, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MAERETS.

(by oub commercial editor.) Friday Evening. The cable message received to-day stating that a cargo of Australian wheat has been sold at 29s 6d shows that the English market is weaker, as a Victorian cargo was reported, as having been sold last week at 30s 3d. Locally there is not a large amount of wheat, offering, and since ls<st reporting only a few thousand sacks have been placed for export at current quotations. Millers are still buying any suitable lines that come to hand, though sellers are inclined to ask more .than buyers are willing to give. Bran has been raised to £53. '. The oats market shows rather a weaker tone, the principal enquiry being for milling Canadians, which are seemingly very scarce. There is very little demand for barley. Cocksfoot has become weaker in view of requirements for export having to some extent been satisfied. Tbe potato market is lifeless in sympathy with Sydney, and. buyers are not at all anxious to operate,- 15s. being the outside limit of prices. Onions show a little improvement, and for good sound parcels 65s is offered. ' Local factory butter has advanced another Id per lb. The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.b.b., Lyttelton, for direct shipment from country stations and free of commission, except where otherwise specified: Wheat—Hunter's 2s 2d to 2s 3d, Pearl about 2s 4d, and Tuscan 2s 4d to 2s 5cL 1 New Oats—Canadians 1» 3d to Is 4d, short feed Is 2d to Is 3d, duns Is Id to la 2d, at country stations. . Barley—_s 3d to 3s, delivered. Beans—2s 5d to 2s 6d. Peas—Blue Prussians 2s Sd to 2s 9d, partridge 2s 9d to 3s. Flour (millers' quotations, nominal)--Roller £7, stone £6. ! bnarps—£3 10s. Bran—£3. Oatmeal—£B 10s. Oataheaf Chaff—New 30s to 32s 6d at country stations. Potatoes—-Kidneys 20s, Early Roses 40s to 455, Derwents 17s 6d, off forks, at country stations. - Onions—isos to 655, at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, farmers' lots Is fid to 2s; cocksfoot, 2£d for light, discoloured; 2|d to 3d for medium, and to 3Jd for bright fairly 'heavy; extra heavy, machinedressed, 171b' seed, 4d;' cowgrass, s£d to 6d. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory 4d to 4£d, loaf 4d to sd; butter, factory, local, lsld, North Island lOd to lld,dairy 8d to 9d, salt (in boxes) 7d to lOd; bacon 7d, do roll 7d to 7£di hams 8d; factory bacon and ham £d higher. /' (KOESS ''' INVERCARGILL, June 20. There has been no change in the values of produce this week, and business has not been brisk. Some wet weather has retarded the carting of gfauC and. holders in the, country are not ; pushing, hoping to see better prices. .