COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12604, 6 March 1903, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. The amount of revenue collected at ths Dunedin Custom House to-day on goods cleared for consumption was £1190 13s. t PRODUCE MARKET. Potatoes have been coining forward slowly , this week—probably owing to the activity in harvest operations farmers cannot- find i time to dig them. Tlio scarcity has firmed t prices, and Oamarns are now worth from ■ £3 15s to £4 per ton, but as soon as further supplies are on the market prices arc i expected- to recede. Eggs still .keep tearce, and tha price has , advanced to Is 4d per dozen. BREADSTUFFS. There is a good deal of new wheat now offering, but no sales are yet reported. Tusi can and Hunter's arc quoted at 4s 3Jd (f.0.b,, Lytelton), but counter offers of 4s • 2d liavo so far not led to' business. The Christchurch Press reports"During the past few days a fairly largo quantity of wheat has been on offer, chiefly Tuscan > and Hunter's, and a number of lines have changed hands, local and Timaru millers . being the principal buyers. The price generally paid lias been 4s, country stations, but > I in a few cases over this figure has been given ■ for immediate delivery. Among the lines re11 ported to have been placed arc 6000 bushels 1 ! of Tuscan at 4s, 5000 bushels of Tuscan and i: 3000 bmhols of Pearl at 4s, jncl 2000 bushels i j of llunter'6 at 4s lid, at country _ stations. I Buyers have been chary of purchasing somo : of the stook-throshed lines of wheat, as sweating in the bags is feared; but some cf : the samples of grain- threshed out of stool; have come to hand in nice, hard condition.!' A factor which "is likelv to strengthen the Australian wheat market and exercise a firming tendency in New Zealand is tho io- ! port that Adelaide millers are nov; thinking • , of importing wheat from the Argentine, thus ' ■ admitting that Adelaide supplies are cx- >! hausted. It is also stated that no freights 1 ! arc procurable from the Argentine until • .Tune. In Canterbury the New Zealand Flourr millers' Association have reduced the price ' of flour from £12 to £11 per ton, the price • being 10s lower than in Dunedin. The oat market still shows 6igns of weakness. Lines of new Danish are offeriug at Is 61-tl, on trucks, Canterbury. o-