MARKET REPORTS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12935, 1 October 1902, Page 2

MARKET REPORTS.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE

Matters arc extremely •dull in t lie grain and produce markets at the present time. There is very little wheat offering, and the only sale recorded is that of a line of Pearl, ut 2s Id ex store for a North Island mill. Local millers are not operating, although their stocks are now getting light, as there is no incentive to grist. Most of the local mills have been working half time for the sake of turning out bran and pollard, while the stocks of flour were accumulating. The demand for offal, however, has fallen off, and prices have declined by 5s per' ton. This has resulted in an almost cessation "of milling for the present, and millers seem t® prefer running the risk of purchasing later on, even at a higher figure, rather than lay in stocks at the present time, which they do not know when they are likely to use. There are virtually no bright parcels of oats offering, although a few lots of discoloured are still on the market. There is a little demand for coastal trade, but only a hand to mouth business is passing. Owing to the collapse of the Sydney market there is very little demand for Derwent potatoes, aud^ merchants decline to give more than £5 15s per ton at handy stations, while' holders in most cases decline to take this price, as stocks are running short. There is a strong demand for hams and bacon for Australia, and the market is very firm, but other lines of produce show no change.

The following are local quotations:— , ' Wheat.—Prime milling Tuscan 4s, Pearl 4s to 4s Hunter's 4s, whole fowl feed 3s 6d at country stations. ■ Barley.—'Malting (nominal), feed 2s lOd at stations.

Oats.—Canadians .2s 7d, short 'feed and Duns 2s 4d, and -Danish 2s 4d at country stations. Beans.—3s sdl to 3s 6d at country stations. Peas.—Blue Prussian 5s 6d to 6s at country stations, Partridge 3s fid stations. Flour.—Millers quote roller £lO 10s, pollard £5 10s bran- £5 10s. Oatmeal.—£l4 to £ls. Potatoes.—Derweuts (nominal) £4 at country stations.

Oafcsheaf Chaff.—£3 5s to £3 10s at country stations.

Seed.—Ryegrass, farmers’ lines 3s-3d to 3a sd; for town machine-dressed 4a 6d. Cocksfoot, farmers’ dressed lines SJd to 3Jd for bright seed; town machine-dressed 4Jd to 4|d. Cowgrass (dressed seed), local Bd, Californian dressed 6Jd. AVhite clover, farmers’ lines 9d to lOd. Italian ryegrass (town dressed) 4s 6d. Dairy Produce.—Cheese, dairy 4Jd! to 3d, fiotory 5d to SJcT. Butter—Frosh local factory lltd, best dairy lOd, salt (in boxes) 9d, North Island lid f.o.b. Hams and bacon 7d to Sd, factory Jd higher, all cased, f.o.b. PANGIORA. - r There was largo attendance at the Rangiora market yesterday. At the North Canterbury Co-operative Stores yards the entry was 2000 sheep, 70 cattle and 250 pigs. Fait owes made Ids to 21s, do 2 hndl 4-tooth wethers 16s 8d to 18s lOd, fat lambs 17s to 17s 9d, fat hoggets to 12s 9d, store do 7s, sound-mouth, ewes with lambs ail counted 7s 6d. Cattle made equal to 23s to 25s per lOOlbs, forward steers to £7 do heifers £5 15s, young cattle £2 to £3l2s 6d, milch cows £6 5s to £9. Pigs, baconers, 34s to 55s 6d, choppers 645, porkers 28a to 37s 6d, suckers 5s to 10s 3d, weauers 3s to ss. In the produce yards .there was a large entry of sheepskins; heavy crossbred made 5s to 6s, do merino 4s 6d ; to 5a 6d, fair half-breds 2s 6d to 3s 6d', fair crossbreds Is 6d to 2s, inferior Is 6d to 2s. Hides broiight 3|d lb, calf skins Is 6d to 4s ; wool, pieces Id to 3d lb, do half-bred to 4^d; fat. l]d' to 2d; potatoes 6s a sack., Other produce and fowls sold at last quotations. : ASHBURTON. There was a large attendance at the Ashburton Yards yesterday, and 1 a good entry of cattle and sheep. The cattle sale was dragging, but the sale of shiep was spirited, and an advance of from Is to Is 6d was made. This was the result of the improved prospects for feed, which, after the lata rains, is coming on rapidly. The following are the prices:—Cattle.—Stores, eighteen-months £5 16s, and two at. £2 5s ; calves. 35s ; springer, £3 5s ; two yearlings at 17s 6d. ’ Butchers’ Sorts.—Good steers, £6 10s, £6 12s 6d; mixed line at £6 each ; three steers ab/£5 7s 6d; do at £5 17s 6d each ; two at £6, two at £6 ss, two at £6 17s 6d. Sheep.—Pat wethers, 16s 3d and' 18s Id; five maiden ewes, two and four-tooth. 19s 9d; four half-bred ewes; 13s; eight fab merino ewes, 11s; six at 9s 6d; do at 8s ; line of wethers at 17s, 17s 9d ; four-tooth wethers, 16s ; half-bred wethers, 15s 4d; merino ewes, 13s; fourtooth ewes, with lambs at foot, 9s ; ewes in lamb, 15s 6d and 14s 6d; half-bred wethers, four-tooth, heavy-weight, ,17s 6d. Freezers.—One hundred wethers, two, four and six-tooth, 15s ; forty-four hoggets, halfbred, 13s lOd. Ewes in lamb, all counted, 10s 9d, 9s Bd, with two lajnbs each; tyotooth ewes, 10s 4d; down hoggets, off tussock, 9s lOd; forward store lambs, off tussock, 10s 9d ; store hoggets, 10s; lid and 8s; inferior ewes in lamb, 7s 6d.