AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6870, 21 April 1897, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

(By Eleotkio Telegraph—Copyright.) (per united press association.) Received April 21, at 11.15 a.m. Sydney, April 21. Wheat—Chick, 3s to 3s 3d ; milling, 4s 4d. Flour—Californlan, LlO 15s to Lll: Manitoba, Ll2 10s to Ll2 15s ; local, to Ll2 10s. Oats—New Zealand prime feeding, 2s 5d to 2s 6d ; medium, 2s 4d ; seeding, 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Maize—Prime new, 2s 5d to 2s 6d. Barley—Cape, 3s. Peas —Prussian blue, 4s 6d. I Bran, 9id. Pollard, lid. Potatoes—Circular Heads, L2 10s to L2 15s. Onions—Victorian, L 4 to L 4 10s ; New Zealand, L 5 ss. Butter—Market still unsettled. Brisk demand for factory, BJd to 9id ; creamery, 9J to lOd. Cheese—Prime, 3£d to 4d. Bacon, 3£d to 6d.~ Hams—New Zealand, 9d. Melbourne, April 21. Business only partially resumed after holidays. Little doing. Adelaide, April 21. Nothing doing. Wheat nominally quoted at 5s sd. Flour, Ll3 10s. Oats—Dun, 2s 9d ; Algerian, 3s 6d ; stout white, 3s 6d. Barley—Cape, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; malting, 4s 6d to 5s 3d. Bran, Is 4d. Pollard, Is 6d.

Sydney, April 21. The Government statistician has completed the wheat returns for the past season. They show the actual area cut for grain to be 867,500 acres, an increase of 271,000 on the previous year, the yield being 8,848,000 bushels, an increase of 3,652,000. The average yield per acre is 10 2 bushels, an increase cf 1"5. These figures show large increases on the previous official progress reported.