TIMARU.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12506, 19 May 1906, Page 12

TIMARU.

Our Timani correspondent writes:— There has a good deal c-i business <ione on the local j;-ain and produce tnark-xs during the wrek. Prices have again jumped up. and the 3s 6d p£<r biishol. which it was predicted would scon Iv? available for prime milluip; wheat is now within measurable distance. At the present time 3i< od can he obtained for first quality Tuscan, delivered at Timani, sacks wTiiJe Velvet is oommanding Sα kl on. tho same basis, and Red Chaff, which is nor co much in demand, 3r> 3d to &> 3Vd. While there in a good deal ot business pawing, there is j.tiH .1 let of grain iimhrpshed. and nuinhpw oi t'ariiHTS intend to hold for ttill higlier

prices, which they confidently believo will bo ruling before long. Though the price of wheat, han go-no up cninsidcrably as compared with prices ruling thre\> months ago, there has so ra.r been no increase, here in the prke ot flour, which stiH stands at £8 10s per ton in sacks, £0 in 10 : ) lb bags, £j ne in oOlb hags, and to £9 10s in 2-slb bags, these being the quotations. Br.in is still felling at £'3 los, pollard at £5, and oaimoal at £11 per ton in each o.v*!. Tho market ior oats is firm, with a poed enquiry, at up to 2s Id for Duns, Gartoius 2e, and Danish Is lid, on trucks, country station*;. Chi'jk wheat ifi woi t-U 3s 21d, f.0.b..p.i. Tho demand for psmtc<w> has in no way on» : od, but is, if anything, rather keener than io ir.w, and notwithstanding that importations are being madf' both into the Nerth and South Isluiul-, there is no difficulty in obtaining £10 per ton for Uie tuber.