MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10595, 2 March 1895, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

Tee rPTsw Zealand Fabmers 5 Co-oper-ative Association OS Canterbury, Limited, reports for the week ending Friday, March 1, as follow®’:—Business in grain and produce during the week has been active, and & more confident feeling has pervaded the market. Large shipments during, the week have not yet passed the Customs, whichaffeets tbelist of exports. Old wheat of prime quality is firm, and is affected by the more improved tone apparent in new wheat. The quantity of new crop offering continues limited, and growers maintain an attitude of firmness. There are ready buyers at our quotations. Oats have continued in request for coastwise shipment, but there are indications that southern quotations will shortly affect our trade. Barley is moving steadily into consumption, but the market throughout is in buyers* favour. Blue peas have very restricted inquiry, and beans sere not yet quotable. Ryegrass is still offering freely, but buyers having sufficient stocks th® market shows weakness. Cocksfoot has been offering in excess of the absorbing capacity of our market, and prices are against sellers. Other producers without quotable change. Present qnotafeons.f.o.b Lyttelton, sacks extra: Wheat. Old prime milling. Velvet or Tuscan land Hunter’s, 2s 6d; new crop, 2a 4d ipsr bushel. Oats.—Milling Canadians, la, 4d, la Sd; ehort feed. Is 3d; DanishJls Id to la 2d; Duns, Is 3d. Peas.—Blvte Prussians, 2s 6d. Beaus, nominally 2a 3d to 2a 4d. Ryegrass.—Farmers* samples, 2a to 3a 6d; machine-cleaned, 3a9d to 45.. Cocksfoot.— 141 b seed, 3fd to 4d; 121 b seed, 3£d to 3£d. Red clover and cowgrass, 70s .to 80s. Cheese. —New, large and loaf, 4Jd to 4£d. Butter.—Separator, ;8d; beat dairy, 6d to 7d; salt, 5d to 6d. Bacon and hams, 7d. Oaten sheaf chaff; 50s, sacks included. Exports for' the week are as follow : Wheat, 1767 packs; oats, 2740 sacks; flour, 1071 sacks l ;! seed, 830 sacks; chaff, 2453 sacks.

The Canterbury (New* Zealand) Seed. Company, Limited, reports on the seed market for the week ending March 1 as followsßyegrass.—Some fairly large parcels have changed hands during the week, and small ahotty seed has good inquiry at late rates; ordinary seed is easier. Our southern friends have been quoting at values that compare favourably with those lately ruling here. We quota best machinedressed 4s to 4s 3d, good seed Ss 6d to 3a lOd, farmers' lots 2s 3d to Ss Sd according to quality. Cocksfoot.—-Offerings have been plentiful and prices have dropped; this has had the effect of checking business daring the past day or two, as farmers-are loath to accept prices now offered, in many cases preferring to either store for a market or have their seed dressed and shipped on their own account. We quota farmers’ riddled seed 3d to 3£d, country dressed Sid to 3f d, machine-dressed 151 b 4d, I6lb to 171 b 4id to 4id. Many sampler show signs of exposure to the weather. Clovers.—Some choice white has been on the market and found buyers at up to lid per lb. With the prime seed produced by our Canterbury farmers this year the importers’ trade has disappeared, and we believe that Canterbury will be able next season to command the whole trade of the Australasian colonies in this. Some good lots of alsike have been on offer and taken up at full rates. We quote white 80s to 120 s, alsike 65s to 75a, cowgrass 60s to 80s, timothy 40a .to 45b, trefoil 35a to 40s, ribgrass 255, created dogstail 2s, meadow fescue 70s, tall fescue 80s, all colonial grown new crop. Eape.—We quote beat imported broadleaf, extra choice quality, 22a 6d; lucerne 60s. EAIKODRA SHEEP SALE. £Peb Press Association.! EAIKOUEA, March 1. At the Kaikoura sheep sale to-day Messrs Pyno and Co. had. an entry of .about 25,000 and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company 10,000. About half the total entry was disposed of. The sheep were generally in excellent order. The Swyncombe two and fourfcooths were magnificent lines. The prices realised were as follow:—Sound-mouth merino ewes Is to Is 6d, merino wethers 9d to Is 9d, cross-bred ewes 4s to 7s 7d, cross-bred wethers 5s to 7a 2d, fat crossbreds 7s to 8s 9d, fat cross-bred ewes 5s to 7s. Messrs Matson and Co. held a .successful sale of horses, good prices being obtained. RANGIORA HORSE PAIR. Mr Buss held his monthly sale of horses at the Central Yards yesterday. Thera was an entry of 79 head. The sale was not very animated, but 45 head changed hands. Good draughts realised £l4 to .£l6, medium do £8 to .£9, inferior ones sold at all prices; really good trap.horses .£l2 to .£ls; hacks, good sorts, £l2-to .£ls, medium do -£5 to £B.