MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CI, Issue 11884, 6 May 1899, Page 11

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Outside orders for milling wheat, together with an active local demand, continue, and all good-conditioned lines offered at our quotations have found ready buyers. Pearl and Tuscan' have been placed at 2s 2d at near country stations, and Hunter’s at 2s to 2s The oat market is rather duller, owing to, heavy offerings from Southland. Sales of prime Canadians have been made at Is 4d •to Is 5d f.0.b., short feed Is 3d, and Duns and Danish at Is 2d to Is 3d f.o.b. The barley market remains sluggish, and there is an absence of really gpod lines. A few small lots of discoloured have been placed at 2s Id to 2s 3d. Prime samples woulld command from 2s 9d to 3s f.o.b. Offerings of potatoes have been heavy, and buyers are disinclined • to operate at anything over 20s at country as the Sydney market is now fully supplied. 1 The same remarks • apply to onions, and 27s 6d to 30s is the best price obtainable now. Ryegrass and cocksfoot . are still in poor demand. Offerings of all descriptions of grain are being lightened, owing to scarceness of cornsacks. , The following are. quotations: Wheat.—Prime milling Pearl and Tuscan 2s 4d, fair average quality 23.3 d, prime milling Hunter’s 2s 2Jd; fair average quality 2s 2d.. - Barley.—Prime malting (nominal) ~2s 7d to iSs iDd, secondary parcels 2s 3d to .2s Gd clslivcrc’d. ’• ' ... Capo Barley.—2s to 2s'2d. ■ Oats.—Milling Canadians Ts 4d, short feed •Is 2d to is 3d, Duns, Danish Is 2d, Tartarian 19 2d. ■ m Flour.—Millers quote roller £7, stone *6, sharps £3 10s, bran £2 15s. Oatmeal. —£9. ' ’ , ’. 1 Oatsheaf Chaff.—New 30s at country stations. Potatoes.—Derwents 20s at country stations. ’ 1 Onions.—3os at country stations. Beans.—2s 4d to 2s fid. Peas.—Blue Prussians 3s‘4d to 3s Gd. Seeds.—Eyegrass, farmers’ lines. Is 3d to Is sd-lor fair and up to 2s Gd for prime .heavy farjnnvs'J’seed. Cocksfoot, farmers’ dressed lines, ■: SJd to Cowgrass Sd to 6d. White clover, farmers’ lines, 5Jd to 7d. Hairy • Produce.—Cheese 3Jd. to 4d, loaf 4d to 6d, factory (large) 4d to, 4Jd. Butter—Fresh . factory 9Jd, ditto inf \boxes 9d, to 9Jd, best dairy Bd, salt in boxes Gd to i 7d for prime, Bacon and hams 7Jd to BJd, -factory. |d per lb higher. The above prices, except where otherwise , stated, are those paid to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton. OXFORD. There was a large entry at the Oxford yards on Thursday, when competition was keen for all classes of stock, with the exception of fat ewes. A line of 200 two ■tooths brought 17s 9d, 300 do 16s 4d, 100 do 16s Bd, 1000 turnip wethers 12s sd, fat lambs from 11s 3d to 14s, store do 8s 6d,to 10s 6d, two-tooth wethers 13s to 14s 6d, fat ewes 8s to 10s 3d, aged breeding ewes 8s 6(3, to 9s 8d; springers £4 5s to £4 15s, fat steers £6. HORSE SALES. At the Central Yards, Rangiora, yesterday, .the entry for the monthly horse fair comprised ninety-six head, including many really good unbroken and broken-in draughts. For all sound horses the bidding was animated, hut for light horses business Was slack; A rise of £3 to £4 .was noted ■for draught stock of good quality. .The prices were —Unbroken yearling draught colts £io, £l2 to £ls, two-year-olds £ls, £lB to £25, three-year-olds £25, £2B to £4l, broken-in : draughts (good sorts) £27 to £34, medium do £ls to £23, older sorts £lO to £5. • INVERCARGILL GRAIN MARKET, ; tPeb Press Association.] ■ INVERCARGILL, May 5. Oats.—Values have gone steadily down, and to-day the best price obtainable is Is 4id, sacks in, f.0.b.. Bluff, for B grade. Lofcal merchants have given farmers from Is to Is sacks extra, at up-country stations,-, these prices being very .full value when compared with f.o.b. prices obtainable for orders from over-sea, and unless values improve in, the outside markets it is evident that prices ruling locally must come dowp. Supplies from the country are less .. than, expected, owing probably to many having decided to keep their oats in stack in preference to selling at the prices now ruling. The low value has already induced speculators to try the London market, and shipments have been made by the Indramayo and Morayshire. Wheat,—Good milling is worth from 2s 2d to 2s 3d, sacks extra, at up-country stations. Ryegrass.— Farmers’; parcels find a ready sale at Is .to ' Is' 3d, sacks extra. There, is no outside demand. Earley.—Good malting samples are saleable at 3s to 3s. 3d to local brewers. The outside demand is poor,