DOMESTIC PRODUCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1418, 25 January 1879, Page 13

DOMESTIC PRODUCE.

Witness Office, Wednesday, January 22. Barley. — The nominal quotation is 5s 6d to 6s 6d. In Melbourne, at latest accounts, malting, fair quality Victorian, sold at auction at 535 3 9d. Dairy Produce. — Butter is in fair supply Grocers pay 9d to Is per lb. Eggs are worth ] « 4d to Is 5d per dozen. Cheese of the best quality is worth 7^d. Fish —The supply has been very moderate since our last. The season for oysters will not open until April. Fruit. — All Hnds of fruit are now abundant. Fruiters are paying 9d per lb for strawberries, aDd 3d for currants and gooseberries. Large supplies of plums, of excellent quality, have been brought in from Sydney and Akaroa Orleans sell at 8s per half-case, green gages at 9s per half case, and Akaroa at 4d to 4^d per lb. Grapes have been received from Sydney in good order, and are worth 29s to 30a per case of 251bs. Pine apples ai*e 7s 6d to 8s 6d per doz. Australian pears are 7s 6dto 8s 6d per half-case, and Akaroa 3d to od per lb. Apples are falling. Melbourne cooking are 9s to 10s per case, and eating 12s to 13s. Fked.— New hay is now plentiful and worth £4 to £4 10s per ton. Straw and chafl are in good supply. Fkesh Meat. — Freßh meats of all kinds, excepting pork, are abundant. Butchers are payiug aid for pigs. Flour. — The local market remains without change. The quotations in Adelaide are £10 5s to £10 10, and in Melbourne £10 15s. Oats.— The small quantity of last season's remaining in farmers' hands has been coming forward. Milling is worth 3s 8d to 3s lOd. Latest quotations from Melbourne were 4s 3d to 4s 7d for Victorian, and 4s 8d to 4s lOd for New Zealand. Onions.— lmpoi ted are worth 14s to 15s per cwt, and local 10s to 11s. Provisions.— Canterbury bacon and hams are worth Od per lb, the market being barely supplied. Potatoes.— Prices are considerably lower this week. We now quote at £6 to £8 per ton. Poultry.— The market is fairly supplied Young fowls will soon be coming forward. Seeds.— There is little or nothing doing, and there will be no business until March. Wheat.— The market remains dull. In Molbouruo sales were made at auction at 4s 7^d to 46 B^d. Messrs Morgan, Connor, and Glytle,

Adelaide, say in their last monthly circular !— "As the present harvest progresses wo hear that the quantity reaped will probably be quite up to nine bushels an acre, and we are inclined to abide by an estimate of last month, namely, a surplus of 200,000 tons of merchantable wheat and at least 20,000 tons of shrivelled infei ior. The weather has been so far splendid. Farmers have their hands full in the fields, and although harvesting is more forward than in any previous year, deliveries are not excessive nor are tho farmers selling freely. When the crop is secured and cleaned up we may expect more animation in the trade. So far there has been much less actual business than up to a similar date last season with its smaller and later crop. We quote new wheat at 4s S£d for prompt delivery ; 4s 9d was offered for shipment in the Hankow, 20s freight, aud 5s 7d for January." Wool.— Sales are brisk. Good competition for good wool. Inferior neglected. The reports by the San Franci?co mail are very discouraging to shippers, some lots sold in London in the first week in December at 2d per lb. less than the same wool sold last year iv Dutedin. Long wools are most neglected. Cross bred wool, in grease, sells at 7d to 9d ; washed, lid to 13d; merino, 8d to 10£ d; washed, 13d to 15d.