GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10777, 3 October 1900, Page 6

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS.

(BY OTJB COMMERCIAL EDITOR.) Tuesday evening. Business in wheat is still restricted by want of freight, and it would seem that prospects in this connection are not improving. A cable message from Melbourne states that a vessel has been chartered to load for the English Channel for orders at the extreme rate of 40s, and two others for February loading at 36s 3d. A few sales of wheat, chiefly in small lines, for export, are reported at 2s 5d to 2s 6d, f.0.b., for mired Tuscan and Hunter's, and 2a 6Jd, f.0.b., for Tuscan, which is j somewhat lower than was given last week. There has been an outside enquiry for oats, but the prices offered, Is B£d, f.0.b., for short feed and Is f.0.b., for milling, leave little or no margin of profit to ex- ! porters. The market is, Ihowever, generally easier as there is no business passing except in small lots for local requirements. The potato market is without change, and prices remain as quoted, though some sales have been made during the last few days at a lower rate. ] The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.o.b. Lyttelton, for direct shipment from country stations and free of com- ! mission, except where otherwise specified : — Wheat—Hunter's, pearl and velvet, 2s Sd, j and Tuscan 2s 6d. j Oats (nominal) —Canadian Is 9d to Is 10d, I short feed Is Bid to Is 9d, Duns Is Bd, and Danish Is 7d to Is Bd. Barley (nominal) —Prime malting 2s to 2s 3d delivered. Beans—2s 4d to 2s Sd. Peas—Prussian blues 2s to 2s 3d, partridge 2s to 2s 3d. Flour (millers' quotations nominal) — Roller £7, stone £6. Sharps—£4. Bran—£3 10s. Oatmeal—£lo. Potatoes—Derwents, September delivery, 22s 6d to 255, at country stations. Oatsheaf Chaff—4sa to 47s 6d at near country stations. Hay—£3 5s to £3 10s, delivered ; primest baled, £4, f.o.b. Grass Seed— Ryegrass, farmers' lots Is 9d to 2s, prime heavy, town-dressed, 2s 6d to 3s 3d, cocksfoot to 2|d for bright seed to 3d for extra yoi.d, town machine-dressed 161b to 171b seed, to 4d, cow grass 5d bo 6d, extra choice 6Ad, white clover 6d to 74d. Dairy Produce — Cheese, factory, 5d to 6d, dairy 5d to s£d; butter, factory, local lid, dairy 8d to 9d, salt (in boxes) 6d to j 7d; bacon and bams, 5.Jd to 6d; factory bacon and hams, £d higher. RANGIORA. There was a fair attendance at Tuesday's market at Rangiora. In the Northern Central yards there was an entry of 1500 sheep, 110 cattle, and 200 pigs. Prices for ail classes showed a rising market. Butchers' fat ewes 18s, 20s to 225, do wethers 19s to 20s, hoggets 15s to 16s, inferior do 12s to 13s, o'.d crossbred ewes and lambs (all count) 8s 8d to 10s od , , merino do (all count) 6s 6d to Bs, merino ewes in lamb 8s lid to 9s 9d. Cattle—Beef equal to 23s per 1001b j for prime, springers £6 to £7 ss, do medium i £4 15s to £5 10s, dry cows £3 10s to £4, ' two-year-old'; cattle £4 to £4 10s, twenty ! months cattfe £3 to £3 10s, yearlings 35s to 40s, calves 25s to 30s. Pigs—Baconers 38s to 40s, porkers 25s to 30s, good stores 15s to 20s, weaners 9s to 10s 6d, suckers 5s to Bs, choppers 40s to 50s. In the produce yards heavy sheepskins realised 4s to 5s Id, merino do 3s 9d to 4s 10d, lighter kinds 2s 3d to 3s 6d, hogget and late skins Is 6d to 2s 3d, bag woof 3d to 6d, calf skins Is 6d to 2s 3d, hides to 3d per lb, fat 14s to 16s per cwt, fowls 2s 6d to 4s 6d per pair, d<ucks 3s 6d, geese 4s to Bs, chick Wibeat .Is 6d to 2s per bushel, milling do 2s 3d to 2s 4d t oats Is 7d to Is 9d, barley Is 9d to 2s, Cape do Is 7d to Is 10d, be.:ns 2s 4d to 2s 6d, peas 2s 6d . to 3s 6d, grass seed 2s to 2s 6d, cocksfoot 2Jd to 3£d per lb, white cJover (seconds) 2£d, do best 7d to 9d, cow grass 5d to 6£d per lb, oatsheaf chaff 40s to 45s per ton, potatoes 20s to 22s per ton, carrots 15s to 20s, apples 4s p*er case, bran 70s per ton, sharps 85s, pig meal 5s to 6s per sack.

At Rangiora on Tuesday iMr W. Buss, in an intestate estate, sold 17£ perches on Albert and- Burt streets at £49, to Mr Geo. Thompson.