COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5681, 16 June 1908, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

TIMARU PRODUCE MARKETS

Quotations Poultry in good demand and prices continue to keep nj for good sorts ; hens, small 2/3 to 2/9, largo 3/- to 3/6, prime 3/- to 4/3 roosters ; small 2/9 to 3/3, prime 3/3 to 5/6 to 6/6, ducks 3/6 to 4/6 to 6/-, bantams 1/6 to 2/-, gecko. 5/to 6/-, gobblers 14/- to 15/- turkey hens S/6 to 10/- ; at per pair. .Produce : wheat 14/- to 16/-, barley 13/6 to 14/-, oats 10/- to 12/6, swedes 2/6, potatoes 7/- to 8/-, carrots 3/-, parsnips 1/- : at per sack. Fruit ; apples lid to 21 d, pears Id to 2d, tomatoes Td, grapes 2/-, at per lb ; oranges 10/-ban-aiius 10/- to 11/-,‘ at per ease.

TIMARU GRAIN MARKET. Merchants in Timaru report the grain market as being very 'quiet this week and say' that they have been doing very little business in either wheat oats, or potatoes ; in fact they say limit the market is at ( a standstill, and that, in the absence of much business, reliable quotations cannot be given.

TH E CIIRLSTCIIIJRCH MARK ETS

CHRISTCHURCH, .June 12. Wheat.—the h ral market is in a very dull stale, and even it holders are willing to sail buyers are not inclined to operate at prices now asked. With I a considerable surplus now available in Australia and the near approach of the harvest in the northern hemisphere inemmnts dot not anticipate ajn export business from Australia that will be likely to raise price's in the colonial markets, ’live remit rains', in Australia have tended tet lower prices here. In order to obtain a larger outlet for Hour, the price has been reduced to ;69 f.o.b. M ell Am rim. It will probably mean a reduction in the local prices of flour by the New Zealand I* lour Millers’ Assocmlii n.

Oats.—The market is stagnant. 'Hi North Islaml has not taken up t-’v quantity ex|*eeted on account of lh autumn rains having produced sue! an abundance of fowl, ami -the rain in Australia will, no doubt, affect tin demand from (here. Local holders o

stock who purchased early in an’tiei pal ion of a stronger demand do no see (heir way to unload at a loss Tin- bulk of the business, is, (hrrefor • still being done in the south.

110. ML UARKT'TS

LONDON, dune 11. Ulnat is dull at a dinline of 1/- io 1/0 per quarter. An Australian e a igi sold at TVJ.I. The American visible supplv is ■Jti.hO.'LUOn bushels. LONDON, dune Id. Tim National ITderation of meattraders have issued a manifesto to the puhlie (hat owing to the slvorl supply of cattle and the reduced arrivals from Canada awl Mm I’nib-d Stales, it is accessary for tl'je retailers to increase prices. 'There are no indications of ehea|)or meat for some time.

Tin- Canterbury Fanners’ Co-opera-tive Association Ud. have received the. following- cable from I heir bon-lon ollico under date b’dl: dime, I'.in-s : "Wlnal. I’eiee lias declined 1/- per ipiartc-r owbm to eonlinnod fine weather and Lfood accounts of the n-“W crop ; prospects depend entirely on the weather. Frozen ini-al- i’lime I 'a'liteiidiiiry million litjlvl -delivered Smithliekl -I.} per lb, medium -Id per lb, lu-avy d.td per lb. For prime Canterbury lamb, delivered at. Smilhlield. the demand is n'ood, with a very Imn market.’’