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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VI, Issue 1009, 17 July 1883, Page 2

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DUNEDIN MARKETS. (Otago Daily Times, July 14.) Farm and Dairy Produce. Messrs Mercer Bros, report paying for produce during the weekending 11th inst. — Fresh batter, favorite brands (in Jib prints), Is 4d per lb ; fresh butter, good ordinary (in lib and Jib prints), Is 2d do; salt blitter (in kegs), lOd do ; cheese, 6Jd do ; bacon (roll), 8d do ; hams, 9|d do ; honey 5d do ; eggs, 13 per dozen ; potatoes, L2 10s per ton. Wholesale Pro or :e Reports. Mr J. Fleming, Princes-street South, reports under date the 11th iustant: — Wheat, best milliug, 4s to 4s 4d per bushel ; medium milling, 3s Gd to 33 9d do ; fowls’ wheat, 2s 6d to 3s, according to quality ; oats, milling, Is 8d to Is 9d per bushel ; oats, feed, Is 4d to Is 7d do ; malt barley, 4s 6d to 5s do ; feed barley, 2s 6d to 3s do ; pearl barley, L 22 per tou : grass hay, L 4 to L 4 10s ; oatmeal, Lll do.; kidney potatoes, L 4 do ; Derwent potatoes, L2 to L2 os do ; oaten hay, L 4 ss; straw, L2 5s do ; oaten chaff, L 4 do; bran, L 4 5s do ; pollard, L 4 10s do ; flour, LlO to LlO 10s do ; onions, L 8 do ; barley dust, L 4 do; bacon, rolled, 8d per lb ; sides of bacou, grain fed, BJd do ; cheese, GJd to 7d do ; ham, lOd do. Good bright oats are wanted ; are worth 1/8 to 1/10 per bushel. Flour Market. Messrs Anderson & Co., millers, report under date the 11th instant : Oatmeal, Ll2 per ton ; pollard, L 5 do ; brau, L 4 5s do ; barley dust, L 4 10s do ; pearl barley, L2l do ; milling wheat, 4s per bushel ; fowl wheat, 2s 9d do ; oats, Is 9d do. Flour—Sacks, LlO 10s per ton ; hundreds, LlO 15s do ; fifties, Lll do. CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE. ( Weekly Press, July 13.) Report for the week ending Friday evening, July 13 : There is no change to note in the state of the market during the week, aud values in nearly all lines are almost identical with the last report. Tuscan, of good quality and good condition, 4s 3d to 4s 4d per bushel, f.o.b ; other wheats, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel, f.o.b ; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s Gd ; chickwheat 2s 3d to 2s 6d, delivered in Christchurch. Oats. —Good stout milling quality, 2s to to 2s Id per bushel, f.o.b ; short feed and Tartarian, Is 9d to Is lid f.o.b. Barley.—Good malting barley, 4s 3d to 4s Gd per bushel, delivered Christchurch ; second-class malting and feed, 2s 4d to 3s 9d per bushel, delivered in Christchurch. Beans and Peas.—There is little or no inquiry—the former 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel, the latter 3s 5d to 3s 9d per bushel, according to quality. Potatoes.—The market still remains in a dormant state ; a few sales, however, have taken place during the week at 30/ per ton at country stations. Grass Seed. —Rye-grass, good clean farmers’ samples from 3s 3d to 3s 9d per bushel; machine-dressed, 4s to 4s 3d ; cocksfoot, 4d to 4sd per lb. Cheese and Butter.—sd to 5Jd for the former, IOJd to lid for the latter. WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wellington, July 14. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows :—Flour, fully stocked at £ll 5s to £ll 10s ; oats, without alteration, ruling from 2s 2d to 2s Gd, according to quality ; oatmeal, slightly weaker at £l3. Fowls’ wheat, very prime samples are retailing at 3s Gd per bushel, common sorts may be obtained at a much lower rate. Barley, *sll of sale at 2s 9d ; maize, 43 ; prime lS|Gsfc toes, £3 5s to £3 10s : second-rate do,'l#§ffr £2 10s to £2 15s, sacks extra ; pollard, firm at £5 10s to £6 ; bran, £4 10s ; cheese, 7d to 7Jd per lb. The market is glutted with ham and bacon ; for smoked, 9d all

round, and for farmers’ cure 7d is a proper quotation. Fresh butter enquired for, Is 3d; salt do, no demand exists, and can be bought for 9d to 9Jd ; eggs, Is 6d ; fowls, 38 3d to 3s 6d ; turkeys, Ss ; geese, 6s. The following is the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company’s report, dated July sth, of the • SYDNEY MARKETS. Sheepskins.—Continue in active request, and - parcels coming to hand are quickly cleared at our last quotations. Tallow.—Market slightly easier, shippers being unwilling to give the extreme rates that have lately been ruling however, fair business is being done at the undermentioned figures :—Fine mutton, £36 10s to £37 10s per ton ; best beef, £34 to £35 do ; medium and mixed, £3O to £3l 10s. Butter.—Wo have had. a few inquiries for New Zealand butter from speculators outside the trade,'but busiuess has not yet resulted ; however, in view of the diminished supplies of the local product uow available, we liopo, shortly, to bo able to report more favorably. Potatoes. —Continue firm. A fair outlet is now offered to New Zealand shippers, the market showing every tendency of hardening. We quote for prime, £3 7s Gd to £3 10s per ton, with good enquiry. Oats.—No improvement is visible in pripes, though there is a fair demand for feed qualities. We sold at auction on Tuesday a line of this latter description at 2s 2d per bushel, bags included. We quote Fair to good feed, 2s Id to 2s 5d per bushel; need oats, 2s Gd to 2s Sd do. Hops.—Last week a London telegram was published, intimating that great damage had been done te the growing crops by storms, while this week a telegram of an entirely different nature has been circulated. These reports, so conflicting in their purport, should, we think, be received with extreme caution, as it is a fact well known to tliose cognisant with the growth of the hop in Kent and Sussex, that from the middle of the present mouth until picking time, is the most anxious period for growers, the quality and quantity both depending upon the prevalence of warm fair weather. Business in New Zealand hops is for the moment at a standstill, no sales having come under our notice. N.Z. Hemp.— There is a limited demand for well-dressed bright parcels at from £l9 to £2O per ton.