THE CHRISTCHURCH MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2686, 6 September 1905, Page 24

THE CHRISTCHURCH MARKET.

CHRISTCHURCH, September 1. A few lots of wheat are offering locally, but there is practically no demajid. Samples at *11 sprouted are not looked at. The only saleable wheat is prime, weight, of which little is lo be bad. 'Oats are firmer^ but little business is doing. Oat sheaf is in fair supply- Prices show little (•( • "change. - T?ew potatoes. ar.e_ pffering, growers holding trat for about £12 per ton. The • following are current prices: —Wheat j (nominal): Mixed lines, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; bright ! samples, 2s 9d to 2s lOJd. Oats (nominal): | " iMilling quality, Is -8d to Is 9d; Gartons, Is i 6d to Is 7d; short feed, Is 6d to Is 6£d; Duns, ! Is 7d; Danish, Is 4d to Is s|d—at country stations. Peas: Partridge, 3s to 3s 2d; Blue Prussians, 2s 6d to 2s 9d; prime samples, to 3s. Beans, 2s 8d to 2^ 9d; ryegrass — heavy, 2s 9d to 3s; good, 2s to 2s 6d; Italian, 2a 9d to 3s; cow grass, good, 6d to 7d; white clover, 5d to 7d; cocksfoot—lllb to 121b seed, Ed; 131b, 3£d; 141b, 3|d; flour, £8 10s per ton; "bran, £4 ss; pollard, £5 10s; oatmeal, £10; (nominal)—Derwents, £9; oats sheaf, «haff, prime, 50s to 52s 6d; onions, £11.