DUNEDIN PRODUCE REPORT. January 13, 1865.

Otago Witness, Issue 685, 14 January 1865, Page 12

DUNEDIN PRODUCE REPORT. January 13, 1865.

There have been no large operations in agricultural produce, and prices generally are without much alteration. New potatoes have been coming to hand freely, but the Provincial are not yet fit for up-country trade. Shipments from Sydney and Melbourne have realised 10s to 12s, while Provincial grown have been slow of sale at 7s. However, the growing crop is a very large one 5 it

looks uncommonly well, and the probability is that the usual supplies will not be required this season from the other colonies. New onions are coming in from abroad, and meet with a good market. The fanners are busily employed in saving hay. The crop is remarkably good on the plains, but rather light on the rising ground. Oats and wheat are in a most promising state, and so far the turnip crop appears to have escaped all attacks' from insects. Garden produce is unusually abundant this season, and prices ire lower than they have been for some time. Apples of the new crop are coming in from Australia. Bran.—Small lots bring 2s 6d. Little or none in market. Carrots.—£s per ton. Chaff.—Supply equal to demand. We quote £5 to £6. Gram.—£ls 10s per ton. Hay.-The market is well supplied with hay of the best quality, chiefly from Green Island and the Taieri, which sells at £7 to £8 per ton. Maize. — The market is better supplied. Small lots are worth 6s. Oats.—Provincial, 4s, delivered in town, Potatoes.—New are coming in freely from Victoria and New South Wales, and are "worth 10s to 129. Provincial are not yet ripe enough to send up country in any quantity, but they soon will be, and as the crop is a large and good one, we will shortly be enabled to dispense for a time with importations. Onions.—Several very fair samples have come into the market during the week, and have gone into consumption!at from 22s to 28s per ewt. Messrs Driver, Maclban and Co. held a •wool sale, at their Wool Warphou*e, on Wednesday last, and leport that the sale was numerou^ly attended, with results highly Sttisfactury. 550 bale< ■were catalogued, 202 of which were sold b\ auction, and 136 placed mimeiiiately after the sale by private contract at prices as under:—2 biles, cross over (t G, at 4^d ; fame brand, 3 bales, 6H ; same brand, 2 bales, 8d ; D in diamond, I'bnln, sli ; 8 ami F, 7 bales. 32-1; ML, 3 bales, lOJ'i; I. 10 bales, 9§ 1; T, 1 bale, 5J ; C A, T under. 60 bales. 9£u ; £ S, 12 bal-s, lOd ; W X, 13 bales, 10^1 ; S in diamond, 54 bales, 9}jd: same brand, 66 hales, 9^d ; same branr), 7 bal^s, s£i ; G pnd M, Taieri Lalse, 2 bales, Ml I; G anil Tin diamomf, L and S under 70 hahs, 9Js<i; C and X, T. S und-r in diamond. 13 bn!e«. lo£d; GT in diamond, L S uDder, 5 b*l*s, 9gd ; v H, 1 bale, 21 fJ; J tfair, 4 bales, 18£ d; W H, R under, 1 bale, 14d; W B, L under, 1 bale, lOJd. j