COMMERCIAL. OAMARU MARKET REPORT. North Otago Times Office, Saturday afternoon.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7860, 25 December 1893, Page 2

COMMERCIAL. OAMARU MARKET REPORT. North Otago Times Office, Saturday afternoon.

.Judging l»y the hiimll business done in -wlit.it. dm ing l-lie past week, and very little prospect of niuio being done next, on account of I lie holidays wo may look upon the year't; wlioat transactions us all but closed. We aic now within thicc or four wookd of harwalij with ooinparatnoly Urge stooka in bloro and in fannoin hands in the country, ■with the London market reported at "29s for long-bet ricd— niarkct Hat." Nor is there ,i\t$ i visible proHpoot of a riso in value ; crlainly ul.itisties show visible supplies as fjlunt ot' estimated icquiroincnts, •whiohmay or may not be the oaso. An estimated iihortagc does not add to the value ; now-a-d.iyy tlicif Hccma to be no speculation, busiiKW i« simply from day to day hero and in (licit JJritain. Best milling witcat (nominal), 2^ Od to 2y 7 id according to vaiiuty (sacks extra). Oaty are in demand fit Is l()d lo Ih lid for prime milling; Danish and Tartars, 1b Sd (o Is 9^il (sacks ovtra). l'arley. —None offering. Now potiitoca. —^ay, \A lOet to \*> oh, at railway Birtingj (Hackw m) — quotations irregular. Milling products ate without alteration, JMiiy pioduco at late quotations, but in better demand, probably owing to the (Jluislmaa festivities.