GRAIN AND PRODUCE SHIPMENTS.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10881, 4 February 1901, Page 9

GRAIN AND PRODUCE SHIPMENTS.

'lue following are the shipmets of grain and produce from Lyttelton for the week ended Friday:—For Calcutta: 4591 sks wheat. For" Australia: 1349 sks oats, 151 sks barley, 910 sks bran, 100 sks sharps. Coastwise: 1117 sks wheat, 784 sks oats, 240 sks, 1413 sks and 964 bgs flour, 212 bgs, OSJ sks, 30 cases, and 40 boxes potatoes, 619 sks sharps. Total shipments: 5708 sks wheat, 2133 sks oats, 161 sks barley. 1150 sks bran, 1416 sks and 964 bgs flour, 212 bgs, 69 sks, 30 cases, and 40 boxes potatoes, 719 sks sharps.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received the following cable message from their London ofiice under date 30th ulto: —

"The tallow market is very dull, with hardly any business doing. A moderate, business has been done by public auction. Since our last telegram mutton tallow is unchanged, while medium and inferior descriptions are lower by 3d to 6d per cwt-." 'the New Zealand Loan, and Mercantile Agsncy Company, Limited, has received the following London cable, dated 31st January, 1901: —"Wheat—Market steady. New Zealand wheat, has declined 3d per 4961b sinca last report (la.< quotations, ex warehouse, wers, longberried 50s 3d, average £9s 6d. Tallow—-There is little demand. Fine mutton tallow and good beef are worth respectix-ely 29s and 26s 3d per cwt."