CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2631, 17 September 1902, Page 17

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fci ft market not in line with these ideas. Everything is also quiet locally in potMoes, and the ■nine may be said of beans and peas. There is • demand for good lines of cocksfoot, and in '•eed generally there is some movement, but no "ihange to quote. The slump in butter recorded £ast week has not recovered, and the indications »re in favour of lower prices still. I Ashburton markets, for the week ended Friday last: — There i» little alteration to report in /wheat. Tha demand for prime gram continues, mnd iB, if anything, firmer than last week. JRea-llv prime hard samples of Tuscan and pearl liave sold as high as 4s on trucks, and holders ftn some cases are asking higher rates still, be•iieving that millers must have some to mix With the spring-threshed grain. Hunter's is not to much in demand, but prima lot; sell readily lit 3s 9Jd to 3s lOd. Quotations are.— Pearl, Is to 4* Id; Tuscan, 3s lid to 4s; Hunter's, 3s »}d to 3s lOd. Oats are not being sought after lince the Australian demand ceased, but a good tale is still to be found for bright samples. Hilling Canadians especially ate in demand, »nd hard to obtain, and good, short feed is ikewise scarce. Quotations are.— Milling Canadians, 2» 6d, sparrnwbill, 2s 2d to 2r 4d , Duns and Danish, 2s 2d, on trucks. Oaten ibeaf chaff continues to sell steadily from £3 5s to £3 10s, according to quality and eouutry itation. I .' Timaru grain markets (Her&'d, iJth inst.) — /There is -very little alteration in the m«ket with last week, prices remaining m.bont the same. Fot prints lines of wheat 4s Bd is being offered, vhile.secQnd-class wheat is Quoted at about 4s. Fowl wheat is selling from Es Gd to 3s, according to sample. Oats are still jlibout the same, ar.d although the markets, both north and south, are firm, nothing ia doing except for small orders, values being from 2s 2d Jlo 2s 6d, according to sample. Feed barley is Belling at 2s 9d, f.0.b.. at which prices buyers are willing to part. Potatoes are obtainable at country stations for £3 10? per ton, which is «qual to £3 15s to £1 f.o.b. The demand for Bydney is fairly active. At the woo l and =kin sales, held in Timaru on Wednesday last, there were lar!?e catalogues submitted, and undar good competition late (prices were easily maintained. Ihe following jquotations give an indication of the market — J&rossbred skins Is Gel, 2s, 23 4d, 2s Bd, 2s lid, Its Id, 3s sd, 3s 9d, 4s 2d, 4s 6d, 4s Bd, to ss ; jialfbred do, 2s, 2s 2d, 2s sd, 2s lid, 3s 3d, 3s sd, 8s lid, 4s, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 4s Bd, ss, 5s Gd, to 8s ; fierino-do, 3s 6d, 3s 9d, 4s, 4s 3d, 4s 6d, 4s lid, s, 5s 2d, 5s 6d. 63, to 6s sd , hoggeta do, Is 6d, Is lOd, 2s 3d, 2s 9d. 3t3 t Id, 3s 6d, to 3s 9d. Skius »t per pound:— Hoggets, 2d, 2J-d, 3id, to 3Jd , jbalfbred, 4id to sicl ; crossbred, 3d to 3Jd ; pierino, 5d to 6id. Wool. — M»nno fleece, 7d to Tid ; halfbred fleece, 5d , trimmings, 2Jd to 3d , Head woo!, 2Jd to 4Jd; crutchings, 2Jd to 3d, black wool, 3d to 3jd. Fat made from 16s 6d to fcls per hundredweight. The exports of grain and produce from Lytlelton for week included the ■following lines — *Tour thousand four hundred and eight sacks Wheat, 989 sacks and 3621 bags flour, 4296 sacks End 3449 bags oats, 72 sacks meal, 103 sacks barley, 93 sacks malt, 875 sacks bran, 118 sacks lharps, 441 tacks pollard, 10,322 sacks chaff, 43 lacks peas, 32 sacks beans, 5430 sacks and 19,525 eases potatoes, 231 sacks, 21 bags and 177 gunmes onions, 1707 sacks seed, 109 sacks oathusks, ' 162 bales hay, and" 317 bales straw. The wctoorts for Australia comprised 1100 aacks oats, T sacks ba-rlev, 20 sacks malt, 678 aacks bran. 881 sacks pollard, 1960 sacks potatoes, and 10J Backs seed. For South Africa were shipped 19,526 cases potatoes and 100 sacks oathuss. Twelve tacks oats, 5 sacks peas, 218 sacks potatoes, and 48 gunnies onions were for Fiji. The balance of the liueg were for Zealand