MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12535, 24 June 1901, Page 11

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Business in the local market in all lines of grain and produce -is almost .at a standstill, ■ and very few sales are reported during the past few’days. "Wheat and bats are , still firmly , held by farmers, but buyers -are nob now keen to operate at the enhanced values, tho bulk of their present requirements having been supplied. Derwent potatoes, have advanced to £3 15s per ton at country stations, and some sales have been made at this figure. In the absence of active business the following quotations must be regarded as purely nominal:—' Y neat.—‘Prime milling nominal, Tuscan 2s 5d to 2s' 6d, Pearl 2s scl, Hunter’s 2s -id to 2a 4Jd, whole fowl-wheat 2a to 2s Id f.o.b. Oats.—Canadians Is 6d to Is Bd, . short feed Is sjd to Is Bid, Duns and Danish Is 6d to Is 7d. Barley.—Prime malting 2# id to 2s 6d, medium 2s to 2s 2d delivered. . Flour.—. Millers quote roller £6 10s, sharps £S 15s, bran £3 6s. Oatsheaf Chaff.—37s 6d at country stations. Oatmeal.—£lo. Beans.—2s 6d. Peas.—Blue Prussian 3s to 3* Sd, Partridge Qs lOd to 3s f.o.b. O-niona.—£B 10s at country stations!, Potatoes. —Derwemts 755. Seed. —Ryegrass, farmers' lines, Is 6i to 2s for extra good, farmers’ seed, 'machinedressed 2s 6d to 2s S>d. Cocksfoot, farmers’ dressed lines 2Jd to 2Jd for bright seed. Cowgrass 6d to 7d. White clover, farmers’ lines 7d to Bd. Dairy Produce.—Cheese, dairy 4d to 4id, factory to sd. Butter —Fresh• local 'factory Is, best dairy lOd, stilt, in-boxes, 3d for prime. Bacon and hams 5Jd to 6£d, factory Jd per lb higher. The exports of grain and produce from Lyttelton for the week included the following lines: —Twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty-two sacks wheat, 853 sacks and 250 bags flour,. USD sacks, oats, 94 sacks meal, 78 sacks barley, 52 sacks malt, 767 sacks, bran, 278 sacks sharps, 65 sacks pollard, 689 sacks peas, 1578 sacks, beans, 26 sacks, 18 bags and 274, gunnies onions, 6752 sacks potatoes, 200 . sacks chaff, 1314 sacks seed, and SCO bales and 48 trusses hay. The exports -to the United Kingdom • comprised 10,905 sacks wheat, 662 sacks oats, 492 sacks peas, 1353 sacks beans, and 1314. sack? seed. ■ , _ , 1 The exports to Australia compiised ■ 2320 sacks potatoes, 625 sacks bran, 20 sacks malt, , 22 sacks peas and 6 gunnies onions. .; s Fifty-seven sacks of potatoes were sent to Suva. ■ ■ The exports to New Zealand ports were—2os7 sacks wheat, 853 sacks and -250 bags flour, 528 sacks oats, 94 sacks meal, 78 sacks barley, 32 sacks malt, 142 sacks bran, 278 sacks sharps, 65 sacks pollard, 175 sacks peas, 25 sacks beans, - 4375 sacks potatoes, 26 sacks, 18 bags and 553 gunnies onions, 203 .sacks chaffy and 600 bales and 48 trusses hay. : TTMARU. The following .are prices current in grain and produce at Thnaru --Wheat. —Tuscan, milling 2s 6d per bushel, Velvet milling ' 2s 4d, Red Chaff milling 2s 4d, f.0.b., sacks extra-. Oats.—Danish Is 6d, Duns Is 6d, Tartans Is 6d, Sparrowbills Is 6d, Canadians Ms .7d, trucks,. Timaru, sacks extr*; Barley.—Malting, no prime offering, worth about 3s to 2s 3d, f.o.b. ; feed, plenty offering, but growers will, not accept ruling prices of. Is 3d to la 6d. Potatoes.—Derwents. :60s to -. ,65s per ton, Lo.b., sacks in. ST ANDREWS., . The monthly sale was held at St Andrews Kaleyards bn Friday. There was a ’ large attendance, and bidding was brisk. Sheep, on the average, fetched .better prices, than for the past - two months. The butchers' pens were well filled. Crossbred wethers sold from 15s, 6d to l6s 9d, fat. Slieep 12s to 14s 9d,. store-sheep 14s to IBs.. Fat,: cattle, £6 to, £8 10s. A lino of six heifers Were stdd : for £lB 55,. DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET. [Per Press Association.]! DUNEDIN, June'2l. Wheat— I There is no change to report. There is a steady demand gt recent quotations for really -prime milling. beco'nd quality is somewhat neglected. .Prim© milling 2s 6d to 2s 7d. medium 2-s 4d to ! 2s sd, loud feed 2s to 2s 3d, broken ditto ; Is 6d to 2s, sacks in. Oats—There has been more inquiry, and values have hardened, especially for good shipping lines. Prime milling Is 61d to Is good- to best feed Is old to Is 6jd, inferior to medium Is 3d to Is 4d, sacks extra . ‘