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Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4096, 28 December 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

BYDNEY MitiKET. Messrs Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report under date December 17 : Wheat.—A very fair demm-i now exists for prime milling samples at values ruling frtm 3< 5d t> 3i 9.1; mediam quality, from 3* to 3s 4d ; ch ckf-rd ii >ell-ng readily at firm 2s 81 to 2s 3d. Our sales have been SB2 tack*.

Oats.—Bright samples are in ficod rcqu'it at from 2a 21 to 2# 31; dark anrf mednro reman without ma e i*l alteration, va net to-day being from Is lid to 2s Id. VYo have placed, since laat repjr<, 730 ssois. Bran and follard are in fair demand at (rom6Jl to7d. MELBOURNE. The Melbourne Argils of the 21st inst. report* as follows vales have been made to-day of who it. including a parcel of 500 tag 3 new at eqial to 3s 4d ex railway, and » parcel of 300 b»gs old at 3s 7d. Other business has been done is old at a halfpenny less. The price cf new wheat is sti 1 unsteady, quotations ranging from 3* 4d to 3s Sd. I > floor there has been • good trade business at from LS10« to I9for atone dressed, and at from L 9 10s to LlO for Itooe roldd. Business is beiog transacted la new barley in the country on speculative account at 4s. We toted a few days ago that the Zealandia brcoght • large supply of Californian barley to dockland. Further inquiries are, we believe, afoot on colonial acoount. The last quotation fjr No. 1 brewing was IdoL 10 cents to Idol. 12J cents psr cental—say, 2s 3Ji to 2s 4JI per bushel. Freight; duty and charges would make up a value of, say, 4s 3d to 4s 4J, landed at Melbourne. A larga quantity is available at Baa Francisco for shipment, Oats have had a good basices. At suction about 500 bags goed to bright Victoriacs realised about 2s lid to 2s ll§d, and afterwards good stout New Zealand were sold at 2i IOJd to 2s 1 Id. Other sales have compris d 300 bsgs prime New Zealand stupto2< 11J1, B>ma damaged New Zealand at 2s 9d to 2s 9£d, and 500 ' bags Danish oats at 2s 91. ABSTRACT OF SALES By Messrs W. Christie and Co., on Thursday, 29th December, at Paterson's yards— Sheep, etc.