GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 10482, 21 October 1899, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

■ t - ——_—♦_ _ - [ (BY OCR COMMERCIAL EDITOR.) j i " ' ■' Friday Evening. The wheatmarket has been in a. more or " less excited state during the week, but the • firmness of holders has prevented business ' from taking place, as buyers 'do not care to . operate at the prices asked. There is not j much wheat on offer, and to-day tbere is less enquiry than there was a few days ago. There is an active demand for oats; but, ■ as with wheat, holders are not anxious to i sell, and are asking prices above buyers' , limits. 'The potato market is again weaker, a private cable received yesterday from Sydiaey stating that Dements were down to 455, 1 and the market was depressed. About 1 11,000 or 12,000 sacks are being shipped by i the Mokoia and Hawera, and these heavy 1 supplies coming so soon after recent ship- ' ments have probably V,. had r the ; iV »s&st of weakening the bydney" market. Buyers who, during the week, gave up to 10a are now offering only 8s "to L '9a' at country stations. Enquiries for cocksfoot are coining in from the United Kingdom, and 15 tons are being 3 shipped by the Waimate, and 20 tons by-the next direct boat. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company held their closing grain sale of the (season yesterday aft—-noon at their Christchurch Grain Stores. A catalogue of about 2000 sacks was submitted to a full attendance of produce merchants and . shippers. Bidding for all lines of wheat,' oats and feed barley was spirited, and tha prices realised were on the average 2d per bushel above last month's sale. Malting ' barley, peas, grass seeds, and potatoes were not in demand, and bids did not read, owners'

ideas of value. Sales totalled 1556 sacks. The prices obtained were:— < Fair milting wheat, 2s 6tj,' per bushel •- \ whole fowl wheat (sound), 2s to 2s 4_d> per' ; bushel; fowl wheat (damaged), Is Id to I_ % lOd per bushel; clean 'seconds and broken wheat, Is 8d to Is lid per bushel; Canadian oats, is 7id to is B_d per bushel; sparrow, bill oats, is 5d to la ?id per bushel; Danish •oats, Is 4£d; Dun oats, J.s 5d to Is 7d pe*"~ bushel; crushed oats, Is 7d per bushel; feed - barley, is 6d to la 7d. These pricea are all ex store, Christchurch, sucks 5d extra. The following are current prices paij to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, for direct ship, ment from country stations and free of co_v mission, except where otherwise specified.'," Wheat (nominal) —Hunter's 2s sd, peari'. and velvet 2s 6d, and Tuscan 2s 7d. : Oats—Canadian Is Bd, short feed Is 6d to Is 7d, duns Is 5d to Is 6d. Barley—-2s 3d to 3s, delivered. Beai_s-«-2s 5d to 2s od. Peas—Blue Prussians 2s 8d to 2a Mpartridge 2s 9d to 3s. Flour (mlllera* quotations, nominal).-. Roller £7, atone £6. k-uarps—£3 10a. Bran—£3. Oatmeal—£9 10s. Oatsheaf Cliaff—New, 32s 6d to 35s at nas " country stations. Hay—£3 5s to £3 10s, delivered; prime-, biled, £410s to £5, f.o.b. ' Potatoes —Derwents 8s to 9s at country stations. Grass Seed—Ryegrass, farmers' lots Is 3d to Is 9d; cocksfoot, 2_d for light,discoloured* 2|d to 3d for medium, and 31d.t0 _4d _<_• bright fairly heavy; extra heavy, machinedressed, 171b seed, 4d; cowgrass, 5d white clover, 5Jd to 7d. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory 4d to 4_d, loaf 4d to sd_ butter, factory, local lOd, dairy 6d to .Bd, salt (ia boxes) 5d to 7d; bacon 6d,- do roll 6_d, hams 7d to 7£d; factory bacon and ham, ! id higher. j (PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) INVERCARGILL, October 20. | The __-ve___rg.il- Grain Brokers' Associa. tion report that the oat market is still ad*' voncing, enquiry being very brisk, Stock* . in mercluur-ts' hands are exhausted, and farmers are not selling at all freely, so that it is very difficult to get quotations, "A" grade are worth about 2s,■'-"■•la lid, "C" Is lOd to Is 10_d i.o.b. Bluff, nacks in. There is an advance in wheat. SaJes have been_ made at equal to 2s 6d f.o.b. for milling, and 2s 3d for chick; but its is doubtful if holders would repeat t-iese quotations.