THE AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8555, 25 July 1889, Page 2

THE AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Sydney, July 24. The gr-in markets generally are inanimate. The demand for wheat is slack. Chick feed, 3s to 3s 5d ; Now Zealand milling, 3s 8d to 4s 2d; Californian, 4s sd; Adelaide, 5s 2d. Flour: New Zealand stonemade, £915s to £10 10a ; roller-made, £10 10s to £11 15s Oats; Feeding, 2s lOd to 3s Id ; milling, 3s 2d; Feed, 3s to 3s 2d. Maize is scarce through the floods. Prime sorts, 3s Cd. Barley: Cane, 2s 8d to 3s. Bran is plentiful at lOd. Pollard, IOJd. Chaff: New Zealand straw, £4; oaten chaff, £5 to £5 15s. Potatoes (New Zealand), £5 ss; circular heads. £5 10s. Onions: Victorian, £21 to £22j New Zealand, £23. Butter: Imported dairy made, 8d to 9d; separator made, lOd to Is; local dairy made, Is to Is Id; separator made, la 2d; factory made, Is 3d. Cheese: Hew Zealand, 6d to 7Jd; local, 7d to Bd. There is a large supply of cheese in the market. Bacon: local hand cured, 7d to 8d; machine cured, 5Jd to 6sd; New Zealand, 6d to 7Jd- Hams, Ib. Melbourne, July 24.-The grain market is dull, Good milling wheat. 53 6d. Flour, stone-made, £11 10s; roller-made, £13 ss. OatB: 'Calcutta, 3s 9d j Victorian feed, 3slld; New Zealand prime Btout. 4s Id. Maize, 4s 3d. Barley, 5s 7d. Bran, 10} d. Pollatd, Is 2d. Sugar is dull. Rations are quoted at £26 15s.

Adelaide, July 24.—Wheat is firmer. Farmers' lots, at outports, 4s 8d; at Port Adelaide, 4s lOd; shipping parcelß, 4s lid to 4s ll§d. Flour: Stonemade, £10 15s to £11; roller-made, £1115s to £12, Bran, lOd. Pollard, Is 2d.

THE SAN FRANCISCO MARKETS. The National Mortgage Company have received the following advice from their Ban Francisco agents :—The large stocks of I raits carried over from the 18-8 packing ; the extreme high price of augar which ba3 prevailed for a long time, and will undoubtedly hold during the remainder of the packing s-ason; the apathy of our large buyers in the Eastern States to contract for future delivery, have had a tendency greatly to lessen the pack this seaton. We are positive that not over 50 per cent, of the fruit pack in 1888 has been packed this season thus far. This will, of course, later on tend to exceedingly low stocks, and an active demand and higher prices. Apricots to-day are exceedingly firm at Idol 60c to Idol 600. The peach crop does not promise well as to quantity. This remark regarding peaches will also apply to the large peach sections in the Eastern States. Salmon remains about in the same position. The catch, however, on the Columbia river is the smallest of any year since the business assumed such large proportions. The packing on the Sacramento river has ceased, and the product has been disposed of at very fair prices. It is yet too early to give any definite information as regards the packing In Alaska. During the past two weeks, however, a much better feeling has prevailed, and the large holders have been able to realise in the Eastern States and England at remunerative prices. We quote the market for future delivery as follows : Alaska, Idol 30c to Idol 32}0 ; Columbia river, Idol 67}e to Idol 70c; Sacramento river, Idol 45c to Idol 50o: outside fall fish, Idol 25c to Idol 35c, as to quality.