INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1905, 25 May 1888, Page 19

INTERCOLONIAL MARKET REPORTS.

SYDNEY, May 12. - Business in the produce markets has continued steady during the week. The largsat proportion ot supplies were by sea, principally from New Zealand. The demand for feeding plains has been moderately active, but for oats has fallen off. All cieieriptibns or dairy produce a:e firmer, owing principally lo the dry state of the weather in the Illawarra district and the falling off in supplies rrom thence. Flour : Valu'-s unaltered. Quotations are : £8 15s to £9 10s per ton for roller brands ; stone-rmde. in trade lines, £8 5s to £9 ss. Wheat: Very little doing in mill ng parcels, which are nominally 3s 6d per bushel. Chickfeed is in strong demand at 2s 6d to 2s lOd. Oats : The arrivals during the week trom New Zealand amounted to 13,068 baga. Prime bright heavy feed, owing to large supply, 2s Id to 2s 3d ; milli' g, to 2s 4d ; medium and discoloured, Is lOd to 2s; seed. 2s 3d. Barley: Cape seed nominally at 3s per oushel. Maize: Market f Airly supplied. Good dry souud lots are worth 2s 5d to 2s 6dp j r bushel. Bran is in strong demand at lOd to lOJd. Pollard. lOd per bushel. Chaff : Best New South Wales oaten. £lssod to £5 fts per ton ; Victorian, £i to £1 10s ; Adelaide, £4 10s to £5 ss. Potatoes : In fair supply from Tasmania and New Zealand. Tasmania ire'sh, £3 10s ; old supply, £3 5s per ton : New Zealand, £2 ISs to £3 ; Warrnambool, £2 7s 6il. Dairy Proflucp.— Butter : An advance in prices, sir plies being inadequate to requirements. Be*t Illawarra (in Kegs) brings Is 3d to Is 6d per lb ; roil, Is 4d; factory niiule, Is 6d to Is 8d; interolonial, lOd to is Id per lb. Cheese: Consignments have fallen off from so Jthcrn ports, and valuPS are firmer. Ordinary colonial cheebe. 4d to Sjd ; special brands andloat cheese, 6d perlb. Bacon: Hand-cured suithern. 8d t> 91; s-nall lines, to 9|d per lb; machine-cured, 6d to 7<l. Colonial hams, 6dtols; !Nt:-.v Zealaiid bacon, 9<l 1.0 9jd ; do hams, Is to Is Id p-r lb. MI^BOURNE, May 12 —The market for bread6i tiffs is still unsettled. A little more has been done in the export trade, the Winifred having cleared out for London with 8204 bags of wheat and 150 C bags of Hour. The mail steamer Oeeana also took 2880 bags of wheat and shut out another parcel. There is an inquiry for the French mail steamer also, and a small cargo has been purchased for a sailing vessel. Freights uneven; 17s 6d p<ud by steamer. The intercolonial business has been fair, showing a total export of flour to the adjoining colonies of 11,036 bngs, the bulk of which was taken by New South Wales. The gross exports during the week are returned at 21,620 bags of flour a id wheat, as against 18,513 ba«s of wheat and flour in th<* corresponding week ot 1837, Flour moves off quietly ; roller, at from £S per ton 'upwards ; stone-made, £7 5a to £6 10s Wheat : The prices askod by holders in store hinder transactions ; 2000 bags have b°en quitted at 3s 4d to 38 4sd per bushel, and 5000 bags have been sold privately for shipment at 3s 4^d. At auction inferior, dirty samples sold at 2s 9|d ; inferior, 3s ; medium milling, 3s 2d ; and fair do, 3s 3d per bushel. Oats; The- large supplies and further arrivals expected from New Zealand are against sellers. At the various auctions, prices realised hove been : Tartarian, 2s 7d; Danikh, 2s 9d to 2s 9Jd, and stout and seed lots from 2i 11 Jd to 3s per bushel. Barley: Malting is steady at from 5s l£d to 5s 3d for medium qualities. Maize is quoted at 3s 3£d 3s 4d. B<-an : In good demand and further large aales made at lid per bushel. Dairy produce in go >d supply. Butter :• Fresh, Is 2|d to Is tSd per lb ; medium to good, lOd to Is Id. Pottud butter, primo new, lOd to Is Id ; spring potted, from 7d to 9d ; interior, 3d to 6d. Cheese : Prime itt good demand at 4£d to 5Jd ; medium lots, 3d to 3|d per lb. Bacon, town cured, 9d. Hams, 9§d to. lid per lb. BRISBANE, May 5.— A quiet week has characterised tlw produce markers. Flour is unaltered, £10 per ton for roller being best price obt tinnbie. Chick wheat is worth 4s 3d to 4s lid per bushel. Oats. 3s Id to 3s 3d. Barley, 4s to Is 3d. Maize is a little firmer at 2s 5d to 2s Bd. Eve, 4s 6d to 4i 9d. Pollard, £5 10s to £5 12s 6d per ton. Oatenlmy(importf«l)._7to £S. Oaten chaff (imported), £7 to £&. Potatoes: Circular Head, £4 10s to £i 15s ; Warnambool. £i to £4 5s per ton. Cutter: Local, ■id to Is per lb. Cheese : Now Zealand, 7d to 7id per lb.