GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10650, 10 May 1895, Page 4

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

The market has been extremely quiet in moat lines of produce. Wheat offerings are at the moment limited, and both me?' chants and growers demand full ratss. Wheat. —Prices range between 2s7dand : 2b 8d for Pearl, 2s 7d for Tuscan, and 2s ; Bid to 2s 6d for Hunter's. Holders are ehy of quoting for large parcels. Oats.—Prime milling oata are wor u h Is 4a'd or a shade more fox’ an exceptionally good sample. Duns ara worth Is Id to Is 3d;’pure Tartars fit for seed and black, Is 3-jd to le 4d; inferior and thin are difficult to sell at Is Id to la 2d. For good lines of Duns and stout: feed tho market is a shade stiffer. j Bablet is apparently not wanted, but ] aa tho samples on offer are only second- j class and inferior, tho business is mostly i outside tha trade. Beet malting ia nominally worth up to 3s 3d, second quality 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Cape is without inquiry at Is 6d to 1b 9d. Beaks are eitromoly difficult to sell, ana sellers are disinclined to accept pricss offering. Values arc Is lid to 2s. Peas.—-No improvement can be noted in the demand. Blue Prussian at® worth 2a to 2a 2d, Partridge 2j, other feed sorts Is lOd to 2a. Ryecobn. Nominally worth Is 6a to 2s. , . . Floue.—-Millers have raised prices, fiBG now quota: —Roller <£7 10s, stone <£7, Oatheal £3 5s to .£8 10i, Potatoes. —Growers, though ansiona to sell at Isaac part of their crops, are disinclined to accept 15s to ISs at country stations, and business may ia tbs meantime be said to be on the moat limited scale, buyers seeing no profitable outlet, and sailers refusing to take the low figures offering. Gkass Seed.—Nothing doing- in rye--grass ; cocksfoot ia equp.ily quiet. Ceoteb Seed. —Oowgrass, extra choice, ia worth 6d to 6£d ; second quality 5d to 5-jd. White—-But little offering, when pure, lOd to lid is readily given, whilst dirty to second quality ranges from 5d upwards; Onions ara worth 85s to 95a, gacko. included. Buttes still continues in fair supply; factory make is worth 8d to 9d, dairy 6d to 7a - cl. Cheese 31d to 4d, small loaf-ahape 4-J-d. Chaff —OatsheaS 32a 6ci at country stations. Tha above are prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, unless where otherwise stated.