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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3432, 30 December 1885, Page 2

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TASMANIA. Ih#TumotAa Mail »f the 19* h instant r»p«rt-> the fallacies?. A Bttle mors briskness is a-w braojt wtifested to the local grain and produce marfcst*. owinst to th« near approach of the ChrMmtt holiday*. inmost We past week • Bttfe Southern wheat. which h-ui beea knpt fcaefc antil the hat metn«nt, changed hands aft very satisfactory pries*, hut with thrs ejcsptioo th«r» hav* been oo transactions of any Moot. lofwriaSno from fonth Australia had la the mear.ticoo stopped, and from latest adrieM it appears that the wheacrop tberw ca mach hetew tho a*e?»jw, twinj? ostr a&oot thru* bnsfcelt ta the acre. This eoMsr has d«p«sd«d alrrst eati-eSy w Sooth Antntia fnr her btteadstuCT* fir tho past month*, awl if th« .*hort cr-p oseans vntoHtin wfee». another market will ha*e tn te found, as th« wleat grows h»re will BOft U cearty equal to tfe« detnasd. Thax»i>» *•»* food crop ia Victoria, and denZm will bkety tnen their attention to e deny and "o N"«* Zealand for aiapply of hnadatsSr. which kcal farmers will not pradocv. A care 1 ' of 3.5C0 sacks of wheat Iran Kl* Zealand b a&»S, and the Teasel is •sported to artit* ia th« coatw of a f«w d»yt. Tfcitt wii] awetl th*stecksatpr«aeatoa hand, and will Bfcely be th« last imporUtioa pre-, view to the ne* ssaaoa's cfop cotnmg io. Southern wheat has changed hands a'. *» Gd pur hoahel for host noaple*. and New Zea£md wheat » S.-ra at *» 4d to 4s 5d per The! heat quality fowl's wheat is {9 get icucv. and- this week will Bfcatr tec aa advanor la prior. At present it Es firm at 3a 6d to 3j 9 J per hoshel. and esti ttoiain steady at & 3a to 2« 4d per VwK»l. r«Bdinx barley, for which them is Htttedemand. & quoted at 2s 6d. Th» is the Soar mills continues to be ataadr, hat there k no alteration in the quotations. Floor is quoted at LlO 10j per ton ; sharp*. 16 lfo to L« per ton; asd bran, la 2d to la 3d cer hoaheL The potato market i» tut quiet, and little hsaineas is being done Cool saaanles of otd potatoes hring f;om IS 10k to 1215s per too.