PRODUCE MARKET.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 305, 4 October 1887, Page 2

PRODUCE MARKET.

The following is the Canterbury Corr Exchange report for tbe week ending Friday September 30 : — We have but little change to note in eithej the grain, or produce markets. Shipments are contracted and local requirements are i> supplied far beyond their wants. The Home markets continue to decline as regards wheat, which leaves us with little hope of the present prices being maintained, even should freights become yet more favorable to wouldbe shippers. The Australian wants are also restricted, both for wheat, oats, and farm produce. Wheat. — A few lines have been placed for looal requirements, but for shipping the market iB at a standstill. We quote Tuscan and Pearl weak at 3s 5d to 3s 6d ; Hunter's, at 3b id ; second quality is chiefly taken for .chicken wheat at 3a to 3s 2d, and broken is scarce at 2s 8d to 2b lOd. Oats. — Milling lines are not over plentiful, ■and prime parcels should meet with purchasers at is lid. Short, heavy feed are moving off at Is 9a to Is lOd, but long descriptions are neglected at the present at Is 7d to Is Bd. Barley— No prime malting lines are offering. Second quality is in small compaßS, and is worth 3s 3d to 3s 9d. A few seed lote are being placed at 5s for extra choice lots. Beans are pretty well out of stock; any offering are worth 3s 3d. Prussian blues are •quiet at 3s 3d, and feed lots are uelliDg at 2s $ato23lQd. Grass Seed — Sales are being made in small ■lota at 3a 3d for machine dressed lines, but (farmers' parcels are almost entirely neglected, .and nominally worth Is 9d to 2s 9d. Cocksfoot is in small compass, and is worth 4Jd to4id for well cleaned seed, and 3Jd for ffloggf and inferior lots. Potatoes— -There has been a disposition to -- &> business in the tubers at the low price of 10a at country stations, bat we fancy the demand is only temporary. Dairy produce is entirely without enquiry, and any reasonable price would be accepted for either butter or cheese. The above priees are those paid to farmers, and delivered f.0.b., Lyttelton.