CHRISTCHURCH— Yerterday.
I Pboduob.— There has been a slight improvement in the grain market 5 wheat has been moving ofi and the market is steadier ; oats in demand for export ; rye grass drags heavily, only best machine dressed saleable ; cocksfoot firm. Quotations are:— Wheat : Tuscan and velvet, 3b 6Jd to 3s 7Jd ; Hunter, 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; chick wheat, 2s lid to 3s, Flour, £9 10s to £10 per ton; oatmeal £9 per ton. Oats, feed, Is 9d to Is lOd; milling, Is lOd to Is lid the bushel. Barley : malting, 3s 4d to 3s 6d ; feed, 2$ to 2s 3d the bushel. Cheese, 3d to 3f d perlb.; butter (piime keg), 6£d to Bit; fresh, 9d to Is; eggs, Is per dozen, Hams and bacon, 6d roG^d perlb.' Bye-grass seed, extra machined, 3s 6d per bushel ; farmers' parcels hard to sell at Is 9d to 2s fid. Cockßfoot grass seed at 4§d (o 4|d. Onions, £6 10s to £6 per ton, .Potatoes, 20s at country stations. HOBSB Mabk it— Medium draught, £10 to £12; good draught, £14 to £20; 8-year-old unbroken cart colts, £8 to £12 ; 2-year olds, £3 to £6 ; hacks, from £6 to £8 ; wellbred.ditto, £12 to £15. Useful farm horses, £15 to £25. Nothing doing in the horse market — prices nominal, ~ Live Stock.— Beef is quoted from 15a to 18b per lOOlbs. ; prime mutton, 2£d ; secondary, 2d per lb. Bacon pigs, 34s to 435! porkers, 16s to 26s 6d ; stores, 10s 6d to 12s 6d.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7961, 3 September 1887, Page 4
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250CHRISTCHURCH—Yerterday. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7961, 3 September 1887, Page 4
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