THE MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 904, 27 March 1869, Page 12

THE MARKETS.

Witness Office, Thursday Evening. The produce market has been livelier this week, the new grain coming forward prettyfreely, and some demand lor local requirements, as well as for shipment, being experienced. Prices for good parcels of wheat and oats have not varied much during the last few days, but close with somewhat less firmness. An attempt, which deserves success, and doubtless will, in the early part of the season, meet with encouragement, is being made to establish periodical sales of i agricultural produce, and Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co., offered at their rooms yesterday some fair-sized parcels of grain, quitting a considerable quantity of new and old oats, at prices ranging from 2s 6d to 2s 9. 1 d. The wheats were kept back for a rather better price than that offered, viz., 4s 3. J 4 d. Privat ily, and since the auction sale, we note oats as sold, both old and new, at 2s 8d and 2s 9d. Wheats commanding 4s 4d, as an average value, to 4a 6d, for good samples. At the Mills, the quotations for flour are at Ll2 to Ll2 10s ; oatmeal, Lls 10s to Ll6 ; pearl barley, L 26 ; new barley, fit for grinding or malting, is worth 4s 6d.