CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS

Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 24

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS

CHRISTCHURH, January 31. A fair amount of wheat is offering, and sales are being made to 4a 3d and 4s 3Jd a 6 country stations, the following lines being reported as having changed hands: — 4250 bushels of Tuscan at 4s 3Jd; 560 bushels at 4s 3d; 3600 bush-els of pearl at 4s 3Jd; 200 bushels of Hunteis at the same money. There i 3 not much doing in oats, the demand having eased off. A lin«,of 1000 bushels of Gartons haa been sold at 2s 23 at a country station. Prime, malting barley is saleable' at qiiotations, but second quality is evidently nofi required. Clean seconds have been sold afi 2s 6d to 2s 8d (f.0.b.). __ Cocksfoot buyers are now operating freely, ard the samples coming forward are bright, clean, and heavy. During the last few daya one large line of specially clean seed, weighing 151b per busfltel changed hands at 6jd, and 12Jlb and 13lb seed, twice riddled, ia readily saJeable at 5Jd to s£d. Ryegrass is in special demand for tha North Island, where, owing to the extent of the recent bush fires, lsuge areas will bo available for surface sowing. The preference is for guaranteed old pasture seed, weighing 301b to the bushel, machine-dressed, and such seed has been sold at 5s to 5s 3d (f.0.b.). Italian ryegrass is being shipped north fop orders as fast as the machines can put iti through, and one or two firms are running their machines on three shifts.

Butter has been advanced Id per lb all round in consequence of the dry weather shortening supplies.