DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1467, 13 February 1886, Page 3

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday .*— Wheat—Trade requirements in the meantime are not pressing, and as the quantity offering is slightly on the increase, millers are operating with reserve, and very few transactions have transpired during the week, especially in milling, but inferior and fowls' feed have had good attention, prices remaining firm for small quantities, although large parcels will be difficult to place at late quotations. Quotations for prime milling at 3s 8d to 3s 9d ; medium, 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; inferior and fowls' wheat, 2s 9d to 3s sd. Oats—Buyers are fully supplied, and as export orders could not be executed at prices ruling, business is quieter and the market easier. For stout bright milling 2s 5d to 2s 6d is asked ; short bright feed is being sold at from 2s 2d to 2s 3d ; medium, Is lid to 2s ; discolored and inferior, Is 7d to la lOd (ex store). Barley—No transactions to report. In the abscence of malting samples, quotations will be, for feed and milling, 2s to 2a 6d.

Ryegrass is saleable in small quantities at from 3s 6d to 5s for farmers' lots' If rain should come between this and the beginning of March, we expect to see higher prices ruling. Poverty Bay ryegrass has advanced from 6d to 9d per bushel duriDg the past week. Chaff—Best quality, £3 10s ; inferior to medium, £3 to £3 ss. Potatoes—The market is fairly supplied. Kidneys, £4 ; Derwents, £4 s*. Butter-Fresh is active at 9d ; salt, Bfd to 9d, according to quality. Cheese—s£d for best quality. Eggs—ls per dozen.

Sheepskins—There was a full attendance of the trade at the weekly sales on Monday. Competition was brisk, and prices for butchers' green pelts showed an advance of 4d to 6d on laßt week's quotations. Dry crossbreds brought 91to 3s Id ; do merino, 8d to 3s ; dry pelts, 3d to 4d ; green, Is Id to Is 2d ; lambskins, Is 4d to Is sd.

Hides—There is do change to report in the state of the market, A moderately fair demand for all coming to hand,_ and prices continue firm at late quotations, for particularly heavy, clean hides, free from cuts or any other blemish. Tallow—The tone of the market continues depressed, aud the oflly sales made are for local trade requirements at—for inferior, 12s to 14s ; medium, 15s to 17s ; good to prime, 18s to 19s ; rough fat, 7s to lis, according to condition and quality.