INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS

Otago Witness, Issue 1874, 21 October 1887, Page 18

INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS

Sydney, October 8. — Flour: Business quiet Quotations— Adelaide : Town brands, £9 103 to £a 15* per ton ; South Australian country, £9 to £9 >>« New South Wales, £8 15s to £10 ; Victorian, £8 ]§, ?« £9 ; roller and special brands, £9 10s to £10 ]0j Wheat: Only chick feed' inquired for at from 2» fid to 2s 9d per bushel ; good milling lines are nominsllv worth 3s 9d to 3s lOd. Oats: Good heavy feed parcels are in fair demand at from 2s Id to 2s 3d ncr bushel; medium and dark, dull of salo at up to la ],ld ; seed, 2s 3d. Barley : Cape seed unchanged at 3s to 3s 3d. Maize : A quantity of African received during the week and is quoted at 3s 4d to 3s tJd per bushel. New South Wales lines are worth 3s 8d to 3s 9d. Bran and pollard are in better inquiry at 7}d to 8d per bushel. Chaff: In full supply. New South Wales oaten aelis at £3 to £5 per ton ; Victorian and Adelaide, 3s to ss. Potatoes : In short supply, mainly becauseoftheprevalenceofsmallpoxinTasmania. Circular Head are worth £3 to £3 5s per ton ; New Zealand, £2 to £2 6s. Butter : Abundant supplies and demand slack. Factorr made, 6d to 8d per lb ; roll 7d; best Illawarra in keg, 8d to 7d. Cheese: Loaf cheese, 4d to 8d ; ordinary colonial descriptions, 2d to 4d; New Zealand to 6d. Bacon: In moderate demand. Hand-cured Southern, 6d to 6Jd per lb colonial hams, 6d to 8d ; New Zealand bacon, Jd to 8d ; do hams, lOd to lid per lb. Melbourne, October 12.— Shipping wheat in fair demand at 3s 4d to 8s 5d per bushel. New Zealand! feed and milling oats, 2b Bd, 2s 9d, to 2s 10d per bushel ; do under bond, 2s to 2s Id. Barley -. Prime malting, 5s to 5s 6d. Flour : Stone-made, from £7 15s to £8 5s per ton; roller-made up to £ie Maize to 3s s§d per bushel. Butter: Fresh' large supplies coming forward, and prices show a decline. Prime half pounds bring s£d to 6d per lb • other qualities, from 4jd to SM ; new potted, from 5d to 6d ; old potted, unsaleable. Cheese : Market extremely dull. Prime lines bring 5d to 6Jd per lb for prime new; and prime old realises the like prices; medium and lower qualities, from 3d> Bacon : Town cured, 8d te 9|d per lb ; country cured, from 6d ; Hams, country cured, 5d to 7M ■ do, town cured, 8d to 9d. Adelaide, October B.— Flour: Market dull. Quotations— Ordinary brands, £8 to £8 ss; best brands, £8 10s to £8 15s ; roller-made, £9 5b to £9 10s. Wheat: Farmers' lots at Port Adelaide, 3s tsd per bushel ; at outports, 3s 4d. Oats, 2s lOd to 3i, Malting barley, 5s 6d ; Cape barley, 3s 6d per bushel. Bran, 7d, and pollard, 8d per bushel. Butter : Prime fresh, 7sd to 8d per lb: store lines, 7dto7|d; inferior for pastry, od to 6jd. Cheese: For best factory sorts, large sizes, 7sd to 9d ; loaf shape, first quality, 9£d to 10|d ; medium grades, s§d to 7d per lb. Bacon, 7jd to B|d for factory sides ; middles, 9|d ; good farm lots, 6jd to BJd per lb. Brisbane, October B.— Wheat : Chickfeed, 4s 3d to 48 6d per bushel ; oats, 3s 2d to 3s 4d ; barley, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; maize, 4s 7d to 4s 9d ; bran and pollard, £6 to £6 5b per ton. Potatoes : Now Zealand (bare market), £4 to 44 5s per ton. Importedoatenhay £7 10s to £8 ; imported oated chaff, £7 10s to £8 Butter: Fresh, Is 3d to Is 4d. Cheese: New Zea, land, 8d to BJd per lb ; Victorian loaf do, 9Jd to lOd. Hobakt, October B.— Flour, £10 103 to £11 ; sharpi, £6 to £6 10s per ton. Oate to 2s 5d per bushel, and market firmer. Wheat : Tasmanian, 4s 6d to 4s 7d ; intercolonial, 4s 7d per bushel. Barley ; English to 48 3d ; Cape (scarce), 4s to 4s 3d per bushel. Bran, Is to Is Id. Butter: Fresh, lOjd to Is Id per lb ; potted do (good), lOd to lid. Cheese, 4d to 6d; pardoe, 8d per lb. Bacon, 6£d to 7£d ; hams to Bjd per lb.