DUNED IN PRODUCE REPORTS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIII, Issue 1148, 4 September 1896, Page 5

DUN ED IN PRODUCE REPORTS.

The Mutual Agency Co. of New Zealand Ltd.) report that prices ruled as uudt>L* at their weekly auction sale on Monday : — Oats._— Sale was better attended to-day, but competition was slow and 'prices show 'no improvement. Best oats sold at Is Bhd, good Is BJ. medium Is GM to Is 7d. Wheat. -Prices offered riid not meet our ideas of value, and we did not sell any. Burley.— Nono'solVl. • Potatoes. — Market is bare, and prime lots are readily placed at L3 2s 6d to L3 ss. We sold Taieris at L2 19s. Chaff. — No demand except for very prime lots, which can be placed nb L2 7s 6d to L2 10s, medium quality is hard to place. "We sold to-day at L2 "to L2 2s 6:1. Straw chaff is almost unsaleable. Turnips,-- Wo sold two trucitH (loose) at 12*. llabhibUiiis.— The decline .in the London maiket of to 3d per lb on mrdium grades and winters led to a correspond ins; reduction at (he auction sales this week. Quotations : Silver greys to 14^:1, winter blacks lojjd, do groys (does), 12$d, do (mixed), 12^1, autumns 5.V1 to B,}d, summers 4§d. Sheepskius.-A.il offering are vealising \Tiost satisfactory prices, and sales are well attended. Green crossbred^ Ite 5d io 4s li)d, do meiinos 2* lid to :is 4d, dry crossbroris 2s to 4s lid, do merinos Is 5d to 3s LOd, pelts 4d to Is 4.1. J3uttcr.— Prime salt 7d to 7M per lb. Very little inquiry.. Cheese.— Good Akaroa 4 1 to 4^;l, factory 4^ \. Pigs.'— 3A'l for good qualify. E»gs.— ilore plentiful andgaoJl enquiry.