WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

Otago Witness, Issue 2014, 29 September 1892, Page 22

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

' Moritzson and Hopkin, Manse street, Dunedin, report(wholesale)forthe weekending September 28 as follows :— Wheat of good quality has inquiry, and find 3 ready buyers. Prime Tuscan up to 33 8d ; velvet aud red straw, in prime

condition, 3s id to 3s 7d ; other qualities, from 3s to 3s 6d. Fowls' wheat : Good whole, 23 6d fco 2s 8d ; medium and broken, 2s to 2s 3d. Barley : Very little business passing in this line. Good malting, nominally, 33 9d ; milling, 3s to -3s 3d ; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oa^s : Prime milling and good, short, bright feed, 2s; medium qualities, from Is 6d to Is lOd ; long Tartarian and other sorts, suitable for seed, up to 2s 3d. Linseed, Ll3 per ton. Potatoes :If good quality, 32s 6d to 355 ; inferior 20s to 25s per ton. Onions: Best "Melbourne 5s 6d per cwt. Pigs : Prime quality, suitable sizes. 3Jd to 4d ; have inquiry for good pigs. Chaff : Well cut and clean heavy quality up to 50s, other sorts from 30s to 40s. Salt Butter in smal supply, 9d. Lard, 4Jd. Beeswax, Is per lb. Honey, market full, 3Jd to 4d for best. Cheese : Factory, sd; Akaroa, 3sd to 4 id large size. Hams and bacon: haws, 7dto 8d; Roll bacon, 6d ; side bacon, sjd. Grass seeds : Ryegrass— Farmers', 2s to 3s 3d ; machined, 3s 3d to 4s ; Italian. 3s 9d to 4s 6d ; cocksfoot, 2Jd to 4d. We have landing Standard phosphates, kainit, and nitrate of- soda. Pamphlets on application. Clovers, Ac, on application. Cocksfoot: As we are about to 'ship stocks in hand to London during the comiug month, we should advise buyers to make early application. We are prepared to supply in lines from 2Jd to 3id, either f.o.b. Lyttelton or Dunedin. We have some 2000 sacks to choose from yet, and our values are not surpassed ; neither is the quality of the lines we offer, which has been proved by the number of farmers who have secured seed from us during the. last few weeks. We can supply light cocksfoot for surface-sowing at 2Jd per lb. We have shipped already in the Arawa and Coptic some 1700 sacks. We can supply good second-hand grain sacks at 63 per doz ; fruit cases. 2s 6d per doz ; good second-hand butter casks and cases, 3s ; patent egg cases (Bricknell's), 2s 6d each ; also, Bricknell s Vegetable Parchment lined Butter Cases, Is 6d each— the only ones wanted by butter shippers. We have now an unlimited demand of salt butter.