AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2056, 20 July 1893, Page 24

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL.

• Sydney, July 19. Wheat : Chick. 3s 3d ; milling (nominal), 3s 6d. Flour: New Zealand, up to. £8;- Oats are firm: Fair feeding, 2s "8d ; heavy feeding, 2s lOd ; Tartarian seed, 3s. Maize is dull : Prime, 3s 6d to3s7d. Barley : Cape, 3s.' Bran, BJd. Pollard, BJd. Pease : Prussian blue, 4s' 2d. Potatoes : Local, £5 6s ; Circular Headß, £6 (firm).' Onions : Victorian, £5 ss. Butter: Dairy -made,, first quality, lid to Is ; factory, best quality, Is 3d. Ghees; : Prime, 4Jd. Bacon, 6d to Bd. Mblboubnb, July 19. Wheat is in moderate demand at 3s. < Flour (steady) : Stone-made, £6 53 to £6 12s 6d ; roller, £7 ss: Oats : Algerian, Is lOd to 2s Id : Tartarian, 2s 2id ; prime stout, 2s 4d. Maize, 33 3d. Barley : Thin English, 3s. Adelaide, July 19. Wheat (quiet), 3s. Flour : Roller-made, £7 15s to £8. Oats, 3s 3d to 3s 4d. . Barley : Cape, 2s 6d to 3s Id. Bran, BJd. Pollard, BJd. ■ '■ •? COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. London, July 14. The weekly returns of the Bank of England show the total reserve to be £19,114.000. , The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 47 '62. Frozen mutton,: First quality, 3!d" per lb; second quality, 3fd; lamb, first quality, 4|d. Beef (forequartern), sd. ■ South Australian wheat (ex warehouse) is flat at 325 ; Victorian wheat (ex warehouse) is flat at 31s 6d ; New Zealand long-berried (ex warehouse) flat at 295. ' Sugar : German beet, 18s ; Java, 20s. Market steady. No. 1 best Scotch pig iron (f.o.b. in the Clyde), flat at 41s 9d. At the sales of kauri gum the demand was restricted. Prices show a decline of 2s fad. Fine hard scraped, £8 10s; three-quarter scraped, £4 ss. Hemp quotations are unchanged.

OHRISTOHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. The following is the Corn Exchange report for the week ending 14th July (per Geo. S. Hickman, secretary):— With the beautiful open seasonable weather of the past week farm work has been pushed on with on all sides. Autumn sown wheat is looking all that can be desired, and good progress is being made with the winter sown fields. Dun oats have been more generally sown this season. ' The breadth of wheat planted is much contracted this year, but it is anticipated that Tuscan- will receive more attention in the spring. The market for this cereal is still unsatisfactory, and cables from-. Home give shippers but poor encouragement. Oats are offering very sparingly; and quotations are, firm. There are" a few inquiries for goad seed barley, which are difficult to obtain. Potatoes are still advancing, and the quantity offering is limited. Cowgrass is having a brisk trade at quotations.' The following are the week's- prices, viz. :— Milling wheat : ' Tuscan and pearl, 2s lid': Hunter's, 2s 9d ; seconds, 2s ; to 2s 4d.' Oats: Milling, 2s 2dto 2s 3d; feed,- 2s- to 2s Id ; inferior, Is lOd'to Is lid. Barley : Malting, nominal, 1 4s ; 'feed, 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Beans, 3s to 3s Id. Blue pease, 3s to 3s Hd;"/ Ryegrass (machinedressed), 3s 9dto 4s: farmers', Ss to 3s od. Cowgrass (best), Bd. Cocksfoot (bestX^Jd. Potatoes : Derwents, 'Bos; kidneys, 85s (f.o:b., sacks included). Butter: Freßh, lOd to lid; 'keg, Bd., Cheese, 3Jd to 4Jd. •,' „•;. *' .