MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CIII, Issue 12162, 28 March 1900, Page 3

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAJN AND PRODUCE,

The grain markets have been inactive during the past few days, owing, in a . great measure, to the scarcity of freights, which every, day becomes more apparent an the bulk of this season’s crops comeis on to the market. There is little or no demand for wheat, and a good many of the growers are now putting their stocks straight into store, but storage accommodation is very hard to get. Tlie fact that 3000 tons of oats have been shut out of the Oymeric, and that they will have to take their chance of being included in the cargo of the next steamer for .the Cape, has caused a weaker feeling in ; the market, and speculators seem to be anything but anxious to purchase. That there is a ■ good outlet for oats in South Africa there is little doubt, if they can only ■be got there, and a private letter received by the 1 last mail states that New Zealand oats are selling at 6s per bushel at Capetown. . Although the freights to that port may ap-' pear high (6fit per ton), the price at which oats are selling there should leave'a very fair margin of profit to exporters. . Nothing has transpired in bit ley, but oatsheaf chaff is as much sought after as ever, and sells readily for export to South Africa. The seed market continues lifeless, and there is no move in either potatoes or onions. Quotations are as follow : Wheat.—Prime nulling nominal,. .Tuscan. 2s 2d, Pearl 2a Id, Hunter’s. 2s, whole iowlwhoat. Is 7d to Is lOd. Oats.—Milling Canadians Is lid, short .feed* Is 9d to Is lOd, Duns and Danish Is 91d to Is lOd. ' Barley.—Prime 2s 3d to 2s: td (delivered). ■. Flour.—-Millers quote roller £7, .stone £& sharps £3 10s, bran £3. Oatmeal.—£ll ,10s. Oatsheaf Chaff.—4ss at country stations. Beans.—2s sd. . . Peas.—Blue Prussian and Partridge 2s Gd. Seeds.—Ryegrass, farmers’ lines Is 3d to Is 9d for fair and up to 2s 6d for prime heavy farmers’ seed. Cocksfoot, farmers’ dressed lines, 24d to 2Jd for bright seed, to 3d' for extra good. Cowgrass 5d to 6d. White mover, fearmers’ lines, to 7d. , Dairy Produce.—Cheese 3Jd to 4d, loaf id to Sd, factory (large) 4d to 4Jd. Butter — Fresh local factory 9Jd to lOd, best dairy 6d to 8d; salt in boxes 7a' for prime. Bacon and hams 6d to 7d, factory 4a per’ lb higher. Tho ■ above prices, except where otherwise . stated, are those paid to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton. .

RANGIORA. At the Rangiora Central Yards yesterday 8000 sheep and 150 rams were offered' for sale. Owing to the late rain the prices for sheep showed a rise of from Is to Is 6d a head compared with last week’s quotations. Freezing wethers brought from 15s to 16s, butchers’ sheep 13s 3d to 14s, fat merino wethers 10s 6d to 11s 3d, butchers’ fat ewes 11s 6d to 15s 6d, fat lambs 12s-6d, 15s 6d to 14s, half-bred breeding .ewes with good mouth 13s 9d to 14s 3d, failing dp 13s to 13a 9d, old half-bred ewes 8s 6d to 9s 6d, old cross-bred ewes 6s to Bs, good mouth cross-bred ewes Ss to 10s 6d, merino, ewes with bare mouth 7s 6d to Bs, older sorts 5s 6d to 6s. Sixty-five head. of cattle were yarded. Beef brought 20s per 1001 b, springers £4 10s to £6, dry cows £2 10s to £3, yearlings 25s to 30s, calves 18s to 20s. The* entry of pigs numbered 70. Baconers sold at 35s to 40s, porkers 26s to 28s, good stores 18s to 225, weaners 7s to Bs, suckers 4s to 6s. Tire rams were in strong demand, and every lot was sold, while several would-be buyers went away disappointed. Border Leicesters brought 3gs to 31gs, stud English do B£gs to lOgs, flock do 4Jigs to s|gs, older sorts to 3£gs, Southdowns to Shropshires to older sorts l|gs to 2gs. Lincolns Ig to In the prodhoe yards the prices weae : Woolly- sheepskins 4s to, 7s. 7d, -pelts ■fed

to 3s, fat 12s 6d cwt, hides 3ilb, bag wool 3d to 6d,- fowls'll 6d to 3s 4d per pair, ducks'2s 3d to -2s 6d, geese 3s 6d to 4s 6d, fowls 1 wheat Is 8d to 2s bushel, oats Is 8d to Is'lOd, feed! barley 2s, beans 2s to 2s 6dV 2s ' 2d bushel, feed do 2s, split do Is' lid, oatsireaf' chaff 40s to 45s ..per ton, straw do 30s, bran 3s, sharps os has, dour, farmers, ,12s'per sack, do roller 14sj- • potatoes - 2^, 6d to 3s 6d per, sack onions 2s 6d to 5s 6d cwt, ryegrass seed (farmers) Is 3d to Is 9d, do machine dressed •2s 6,d,t0 12*5.9d,. cocksfoot, 2d to 3d lb, oowgrass Sd to clover 6d to o^d. At the -North -. Canterbury Yards prices were Full-mouth, half-bred ewes 9s Id, fat do 10s 6d, fat iambs 12s. 4d, Southdown , rams English Leicester rtams ?igs. • , There was a.:fair amount of business done in the, grain market at Rangiora yesterday. Tuscan, wheat sold at-2s l£d per bushel, Hunters-2s; .oats Is 7d to Is B£d; and beans 2s 3d. ASHBURTON. There , was a. good attendance of farineis and outside buyers at the Tinwald Yards on ‘ Tuesday. About 10,420 sheep were yarded. Bidding, was slack, more especially for four and. six-tooth wethers. Sheep— Butchers’ ewes brought from 7s 3d to 10s Bd, lambs 9s 6d to 12s Bd, cross-bred wethers 12s lid,'merino wethers 10s 3d; freezers, Uptos 125,3 d, wethers. 15s lid; stores, nearly all two and four-tooth were passed in ; two arid-four-tooth 9s 2d to 11s 2d; lambs, .aged,, 10s 6d; cross-bred ewes 5s 8d to 9s 3d; ciross-bredl„ewes"lls' to 14s 3d; merino. ,ewc?,;l.os T ’ A. very fine line of two-tooth, sent in by-Mr Herring, Alford Estate, realized 16s 7d. .Cattle —Steers £3 •to £4 7fe 6d,"hieifers ; -, £5 to £5 12& 6d, springers £2 to £4 7s 6d, yearlings 12s 6d.