COMMERCIAL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11455, 21 June 1899, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

Daily Times Office, Tuesday evening.

The fofnount of revd'hu^. .'collecl'ed .at'the custom house to-day oh goods cleared for consumption- was £813 15s '9fl.

,^^__ _^v GRAIN AND PRODUCE 'REPORT

Messrs Dalgety and. .Co. (LiHlited) report having held their usual weekly avuetion sale, when the attendance of .buyers; was ,rgo"od. ■ '

Oats. —The market remains about the same as last week, and we have no change in prices to report. Prime milling, Is 4d to Is 5Sd; good to best feed, Is 3Jd to Is id; fair to.medium, Is 21d to 1b 3d (slicks estra^net).' ;■',.;.. I .•-;

Wheat.—All prime samples meet with fairly good inquiry, u'ut second' class: is neglected and hard to place at more than fowl "feed prices. We. quote, prim'o Velvet", .2s <ld to 2s 6d; do Tuscan, 2s 3d to 2s sd; red sorts, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; fowl feed, .-''good .whole, Is 9d to Is lid; broken, Is 6d tri Is Sd (sacks iii, terms).

Potatoes.—The iuarket .is;; still, .Overstocked, and prices show no-improvement; in fact,5 it is impossible to sell'; anything but . prime qiiality. Prime Derwents, 97s 6d to 30s.

Chaff.—The demand ;fol\.:prime. samples continucs\ fairly strong, but other sorts are very difficult to place. 'We .quote: Prime, £2 5s to£2 7s 6d; good, £ 2 2s 6d; 'fair to^medium, £1 17s 6S to £2. ■■■...'.. ~.'.

CATTLE SALE.

: Mr John &rindley' (per the" Otago Farmers' Company, Limited) reports r haying sold privately for Mr William itirkland (of Poplar Grove, Middlemarcn) to Messrs' Elliott Bros. (City Butchery, Rattray street) 276 prime, fat bullocks. -.;'. . .' ' ■■'..■-.' •-■