CANTERBURY MARKETS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 22

CANTERBURY MARKETS.

CHEISTCHURCH GRAIN AKD PRODUCE

REPORT,

(Lyttelton Times, 30th tilt.) Wheat is selling pretty freely, the improvement in the demand having come at a juncture when it is desirable to clear stores ia readiness for the wool season, and holders have, therefore, not retreated from the approaches of buyers. The bulk of the business has been in slightly weathered lines, but a few sound milling parcels have also been sold at quotations; millers^d-ocai and elsewhere, are practically the only buyers. Oats have further hardened, but business is restricted by the shortage of svipplies. Potatoes are weaker, and purchases have been made at £7 for sound Derwents at near etatians. The following quotations are for purchases from farmers, net cash, sacks extia: — Wheat. — Prime quality, none offering; milling quality, mixed Hues, sound 2s lid to 3p ; slightly weathered., dry, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; damaged (whole fowl feed), 2s BA, at country stations. Oats. — Prime heavy: Canadians, Is lid; duns and Gartons, Is lOd ; sparrowbills, Is 9d; Danish, Is 7id to Is Bd. Flour. — The New Zealand Flourmillers' Co-operative Association (Limited) quotes the following prices, per ton, local or shipping: — Flour, sacks, £9; 1001b bags, £9 10s; 50lb bags, £9 15s; 251b bags, £10; pollard, £i; bran, £3 15s f.o.b. Oatmeal.— £lo. Chaff. — Oatsheaf, bright, 52s 63 le> 555; second quality, 47s- 6d to 50s, at country stations. -- '— Peas.— Partridge, 3s 3d; Prussian blue, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; extra prime to 3s ; Blue Imperial (boilers), 3s 6d; ivory white, 4s, at country stations. Beans.— 2a lOd to 3j jjer bugh.eh, a^ fiOUJltry stationjb *~«str— ~ ' ' ' "

g ee ,3 s . — pvyegrass, farmers' lines, good, 3s; medium. 2s 6d to 2s 9d; Italian. 2s 6d to 3s per bushel at Addington. Cocksfoot: Fair lo bright 13lb seed, 3|d ; 111b, id; light and discolouied, 3d per lb. Cowgrass : Good, *?d to 7ld; fair quality, 6d to Gid per lb. While clover, ordinary, 5d to 7d per lb. Potatoes.— Derwenis, £7, at near stations. Dairy Produce. — Cheese : Dairy, 4Jd to sd ; factory, large, 51<I to s?d ; medium, 5Jd ; loaf, 6d. .Butter- Fresh, local factory prints, Hid, bulk, lid ; dany butter. 7d to 9d. Hams and bacon, locul factory, 7d to "id. Fresh eggs, Sd per dozen.

ASHBURTON GRAIN MARKET. Wheat. — Belter le'poits fi-oin the English market have had a stimulating effect upon shippers, who have aj;ain been in the market inquiring for suitable grain to load for London, and further sales have been reported at full quoted rates. Millers in some parts are still buyers of prime hard lines, and altogether business for the week has been busk. Quotations aie: Tuscan, 2s lOd; pearl, 2s 9ld; Hunters, 2s 7ad, on trucks. Oat&. — There is a good demand for all descriptions. Milling and heavy feed are especially in demand, but supplies are very short and many orders are remaining unfilled. Values are: Canadians (milling), Is lOd; heavy short feed, Is BJd to Is 9d ; duns and Gartons, If; 7Jd to Is S£~d; Danish, Is 6|d to Is 7Ad. Oatsheaf Chaff. — In consequence of the. rise in values of oats, chaff has again come inlo favour, and is now saleable at 52s 6d to 85s. for prime bright quality.

TIMARU GRAIN MARKET. (Herald, 30fch ult.) The market for wheat has a firmer tendency, and fair sales have been made during the week. Values are 3s ljd for Tuscan and velvet; 3s OJd for red chaff f.o.b. (sacks extra). Oats also have hardened considerably, today's values being Is lOd at country stations for Gartons, Is Od for Danish, Is lOd for duns, Is 3d for Tartars (sacks extra). Potatoes have a weakening tendency, du-s to foreign supplies. They are quoted at £i), f.o.b.

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN SALE. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited; held its usual monthly auction sale of grain, etc., at its Durham street warehouses at 2.30 p.m. on Friday last, before a good attendance of .buyers. _The catalogue comprised about 1600 sacks wheat, cats, barley, potatoes, chaff, etc., and was practically cleared of all the lots excepting chaff. The bidding was good throughout, and both wheat and oats showed an improvement on last sale. The following are the prices obtained: — Whole wheat, 2s C£d to 2s lid; seconds wheat, 2s to 2s 7Jd; Canadian oats, Is lid; Garten oats, Is lOd to Is lid; dun oats, Is 9d to Is lOd; Danish oats. Is 7d to Is lOd ; black oats, Is 9d to Is 9Sd.