DUNEDIN PRODUCE REPORTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1036, 8 June 1894, Page 5

DUNEDIN PRODUCE REPORTS.

Wheat.— The trade is fairly satisfactory, find if a fuller supply of the right sort were available a good deal more business could bs put through at prices on a par with last week's quotations. The local market is very firm, and all really prime lots offering are readily placed at the following prices— say. for prime milling velvet 2s lOd to 2s lid ; medium to good ditto and best Tuscan 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; medium to good red wheat 2s 5d to 2s 8d ; inferior and good whole fowls' wheat 2s to 2s 4d ; (ex store, sacks weighed in, terms). Oats.— The market, though firm at last week's quotations, has not further improved, and beyond the disposal of a few lots suitable for milling and an occasional lot for shipment the business being done is limited, and until a more pronounced improvement in prices is in evidence in the Australian markets shippers will not be in a position to operate with any freedom. Quotations : For prime stout bright milling, Is 6d to Is Qhd ; short stout bright feed, Is s^d to Is 6d ; medium to good, Is 5d to Is o£d ; inferior to medium Is Id to Is 4 Ad (ex store, sacks extra, net). Barley.— A. few small lots still come to hand, and there is a moderate demand for prim malting, but medium has very little attention, and feed sorts in little or no demand. Quotations ; For prime malting 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; medium, 3s to 3s 3d ; milling, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; feed, Is 6d to Is 9d (ex store, sacks extra). Grass Seeds. — There is some little business being done in hest dressed ryegrass seed, but medium and, farmers' dressed is difficult to place. : Quotations for best dressed, 2s 9d to 3s 3d ; choice perennial. 3s 6d to 4s (ex store.net). Cocksfoot ; Best dressed, s£d to 6d ; medium, 4d to 5d per pound. Potatoes. —The supply being more thaa ample a weaker tone pervades the market. Transactions are only of a retail character, best der wen ts only fetching L2 °j 6d|to L2 7s 6d ; extra prime, L?10s; medium, Lt 15s to L2 ; kidneys, for seed. L2 to L2 3a 6d per ton (ex store, sacks weighed in, net). Dairy Produce.— Prime fait butter, dairymade is in moderate demand at from 6d to 7d ; medium, 4d to 5d ; factory-made, 9d to lOd per lb Factory cheese: Medium size, 4id to 4^d; loaf do, 4sd to 5d ; dairy-made, 2d to~4d per lb. Flax.— There are no transactions of any consequence passinaj. Deliveries are small, but more than sufficient fop requirements. Quotations nominal— say, for medium to good, Ll3 10a to Ll4 10s ; inferior to medium, Lib to Ll2 per ion (ex store).