COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3607, 28 August 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Oasubg Mail Omcs, Saturday afternoon.

There his been little or nothing doing in the grain market daring the past week, the exceedingly wintry weather having put • ■top to bonnet*. To-day a few farmera have beea in town, hot we have not heard of any tranwctiooe. Prime milling is still quoted at np to 4a 41, but second quality has advanced slightly, as also hare oats. Feed oats are somewhat easier, bnt quotations by various buyers show a wide disparity, and we hare therefore given the fall range. Other produce remains without quotable change. The following is the price list : Wheat—Prime milling, 4s 2d to 4« 41; fair quality milling, 4s to 4s Id; fowls feed, Oats.—Milling, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; feed, Is 3d to Ss Id; Tartarian fit for export, 2s 2d to 2s 3d. Barky.—Malting, 2s 3d to 2s 6d (nominal); feed 2a to 2s 2d. Ffcor.—Boiler, sacks, Lll 10a; half-sacks, IJ2*; quarter-sacks, Ll2 ss; combination, saUs, Lll; half-iacka, Lll 10s; quarter-sacks. Lit 15s. Pollard. - Lslos. Bran.—Ls. Oatmeal.—Ll3 10s. Pearl Barley.—U4. .... ~ Potatoes. —L2 15s, bags mclnded, at Oaxuaro* Chaff.—Straw. LI 15s to L2 5s per ton ; oaten. L 3 5» to L3los. Other produee prices are—Batter, Is to Is 2d per lb; cheese. 7d; eggs. 9d to lOd; bacon. SJd ; bams, 6§d ; pork for curing, 3d to 34d. Grain for seed (»creened)—Tuscan wheat, be per bushel; Tartarian oats, 2s 9d; tbort varieties of oats. 2s 9i ; Dan ah oaU, 2s 6d; barley, 3s. The Custom's duties collected during this week amounted to L 437 2s 4d. > ABSTB4CT OP SALES. Means Flaming and Bedley will sell on Tuesday, August 31, at their Booms—Town Christie wffl sell on Tuesday, 31st August, at Dantrooo— Property. Household Furniture, 4c