INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1856, 17 June 1887, Page 18

INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS.

Sydney, June 4.—Wheat: Market firm. Best milling Hnea still scarce, and quoted to 4s 3d per bushel; chick feed from 2s 4d. Oats: Business weak, and restricted to good heavy feed lines at 2s Id to 2s 2d per bushel; mediums.d dark from, Is 9d; seed. 2a 6d. Barley: A limited inquiry for Cape seed at 3s 3d. Maize :3s 2a. Bran: Very firm at lOd. Pollard: lOd per bushel. Chaffs Prime New South Wales, £3 15s to £5 5s per ton; Adelaide and Victorian parcels quiet ab £1 to £5 ss. Exception 1 samplei, £5 10s. Potatoes: Circular Head, £3 to £3 10s per ton ; New Zealand, £2 10s to £2 15s. Butter: Factory-made, Is tols2d perlb; Illawara, Is; in keg, 9(1 to Is per lb. Cheese: Ordinary colonial descriptions quiet at 3d to 5d ; loaf cheese," 6d ; New Zenland, to 6d. Bacon: The demand has fallen off. Hand-cured Southern, 8d to B§d per lb; machine-cured, sjd to 6^d; heavy and rough, from 4d; colonial hams, 6d to 7d; New Zealand hams anu bacon, to 10|d. Melbournkj June 4. —lntercolonial business for flour still brisk. Quotations are : For stone made, £3 10s to £815s ; roller, from £9 to £1010«. Wheat: Millers are in short »upply, and owing to the active demand for flour, have been compelled to operate more freely. Privately during the week 20,000 bags have been sold at 4s o§d to 4s Id, ex store, and 9000 bags were taken up at 4s Ofd to 4s Id for shipment to Europe. At auction only a small quantity was sold at 4s o£d. Oats: Steady. On Monday 400 bags of Victorian sold up to 2s Bd, and 300 bags New Zealand at 2s lOd, duty paid Barley: Good to prime malting is readily saleable at 5s to 5s 9d, but there is very little offering, 1000 bags of New Zealand have been placed at 5s 7d to 5s Sd. It is remarked: " The South Island shipments of barley from New Zealand are not equal in quality to those from Nelson." Maize: Not so firm, 4s 2d having been accepted for a Gippsland parcel. Bran: lid to ll|d. Pollard: lOd to lid. Butter: Prime fresh from Is to Is 2d per lb; medium qualities, lOdto I ll§d; potted butter—prime new, lid to Is; Bpring potted. Bid to 9d. Cheese: Difficult of sale. Prime large, 6Jd to 7|d per lb; prime small, 6d to 6£d; inferior to second quality, 3d to sd. Bacon: Prime lines, &d to 9?d; assorted lots, from 4d to 7|d. Adelaide, June 4.—Wheat: Business steady, with a firm market. Up-country business brisker, purchasing at steadily advancing prices, equal to 4s 3d to 48 3fd at Port Adelaide. The sale of 1000 bags is reported at 4s 2d, seller's store, Port Adelaide. Market closes very firm, little wheat offering. Flour: Ordinary brands, £8 10s to £3 15s per ton ; patent roller, £9 15s to £10. Oats: 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel. Barley: English malting, 4s 3d to 4s 6d, demand small; Cape, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel. Bran: 9dto9§d. Pollard: lid. Butter: Fresh, Is 2§dto Is 4§d; store lots, Is to Is Id; potted butter, nothing doingbecause of large supply of fresh. Cheese, 7d to Bd' for best large ; loaf, 9d; New Zealand cheese (duty, 3d), large size, up to 8d ; loaf sizes, 9|d per lb. Bacon, 7^d to 8d for guaranteed sides. Launceston, .June 4. —Wheat: No alteration in values, and the oargo expected from South Australia will have the effect of preventing a rise locally. Present quotations for prime are 4s 8d to 4s 9d per bushel; inferior, 3s 6d to 4s. Oats: Milling, 2s to 2s 2d; Tartarian, 2s 2d to 2s 4d; feed, Is lOd to 2s. Barley: Prime malting, 4s; second quality, 3s lOd; inferior, 3s to 3s 9d. Bran: £4 5s to £410s. Butter: Fresh, Is to Is Id; potted, lOd to Is- Cheese, 6d to Bd. Bacon, 6d to Bd. Hams, 7d to 9d per lb.