COMMERCIAL.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVI, Issue 229, 1 October 1902, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKETS

(Christchurch Press, Saturday) Theke is very little wheat offering locally and' prices are firm. There is still some enquiry from the North Island, and local millers have been asking for pearl. In view of the present price 3 for wheat it is probable there will shortly be an advance in flour.

There has been some enquiry from Sydney for oats, but no response has been made to the quotations submitted, though they are said to have been somewhat lower than the rates now ruling in Southland. Very few oats are on offer, and the only business passing is in small lots for local consumption.

The potato market is still quiet, there being no further enquiries yet to hand from Sydney. There has been rather more disposition on the part of growers to sell, and a few lots have changed hands at £3155. The present price in Sydney, however, does not warrant this figure being given, but probably when present stocks there have been reduced the market may firm again.

The following are current prices paid to farmers, and free of commission, except where otherwise specified :

Wheat —Hunter's and Tuscan 3a lid. Pearl 4s to 4s Id, at country stations, according to distance from port.

Oats (nominal)— Long feed 2s 3d to 2s 4d, short feed 2s 4d to 2s sd, milling Canadian* 2s 6d, at country stations. Barley (nominal) —Prime 3s to 3s 6d, at country stations.

Beans.—3s 5d to 3s 6d, at country stations.

Peas (nominal).

Flour (millers' quotations)— Roller £10 10s per ton. Pollard —£6 per ton. Bran—£6. Oatmeal—£l4.

Potatoes (nominal) — Derwents £3 15s to £4, at country stations. Oatsheaf Chaff—£3 5s to £3 10s, at country stations.

Grass Seeds—Ryegrass, prime heavy town-dressed, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; ryegrass, Italian, town-dressed, 4s 6d ; cocksfoot 3d for off color, to 3.|d for bright 121b, and 3|d for bright 141b seed ; town machine dressed, 4|d to 4^d; white clover, Bdto 91-d ; cowgrass, weathered, 5d to 6|d.

Dairy Produce —Cheese, factory, 5d to s£d, dairy 4|d tosd ; buttdr, factory, local, Hid, North Island lid ; dairy lOd for prime, salt (in boxes) 9d; bacon, hams 7d to 8d; factory bacon and hams -|d higher, f.o.b.