COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8496, 17 May 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Drily Times Office, Thursday evening. The amonut of customs revenue received to-day on goods cleared for consumption was £810 5a 9d. The number of bags of grain and produce received by rail to-day at the Duuedin railway stations was as follows :—

Oats. Wheat. Potatoes. Flour, Bran. Total. 3285 301 548 50 — 4184 The following information, compiled from reliable BOurces (says the Press), as to the quantity of wheat in store between Waikari and Oamaru will be of interest :— ' Oamaru (in and about) ... 200,000 sacks. Tiniaru ... ... 185,000 „ j Waimate ... ... 500 „ Ashburton nnd Tinwald ... 90,000 „ Chertsey and Eakaia ... 43,000 „ Railway stations between Wai- ■;•.■ taki, Waikari and branches 28,000 -~ >. : Addington . ... 45,000 ~ Lyttelton ... ... 197,000 „ Total... ... ■ ... 788,500 „ ' Bqual to 3,154,000 bushels. _ Messrs Dalgety and Co. have received the following cablegram from their Sydney branch, dated 16th May:—" Wheat: Considerable quantities are offered, but demand is dull. Market quotations are:—Prime Tußcan, 4s 9d; Hunters, 43 6d. New Zealand feed oats, 3s 3d; market likely to remain dull. Onions and potatoes: Market firm without change in prices. Oaten chaff : Market firm, with a good demand, at £610s. .*

The Leeston correspondent of the Christchurch j. Press writes:—'• A considerable demand has sprung up for chaff, pressed hay, and straw already this season. Mr Job Osborne ha 3 taken a contract for supplying from 500 to 1000 tons of tha above tor the Sydney market, and as a consequence feed is becoming very dear, £1 now being asked for oatsheaf chaff. An Bllesmere farmer received advices a few weeks ago from Sydney for a shipment of oat-" . sheaf chaff, which netted him £i ss, or £6 10a in the Sydney market, but, of course, this hit the market at a favourable time.. Another large farmer who usually burns his straw^has this season solditior ciittinginto chaff for about £100."