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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3159, 18 May 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. 0. Turns Office, - 1 ! Friday Afternoon. The wheat market o still ; continues depressed, and farmers are n6w very anxious to quit any parcels they have stored in the several granaries in town. Nearly all of it is more or less sprouted, and buyers are chary about purchasing, except at very low prices. All sound hard ■wheat, fit for milling or shipping still maintains ton price and finds ready buyers. Oats continue neglected with the exception of heavy bright milling samples, which are very scarce. In barley there is nothing doing. Quotations are—Prime milling ■wheat 4s Id to 4s 3d, inferior, 3s to 3s 6d, seconds, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; oats, milling la Bd, feed, Is 6d; barley, malting,,4s to 4s 6d, feed, nominal. The following are the Christchurch piices for the week: —Wheat, good milling, 4s 3d to 4s 6d, inferior, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; oats, bright milling samples, 2s 2d to 2s 2Jd, feed Is 9.1 to 2s; barley, prime samples, 4s 4d to 4s 7d ; feed 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; grass seed, well-dressed farmers’ samples, 3s 6d to 3s 9d„ machine dressed, 4s to 4s 3d. The prices are. all f.o.b. in Lyttelton. Potatoes are worth from 32s fid to 35b per ton delivered at country stations. ,