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Timaru Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4895, 19 July 1890, Page 2

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Timaru Herald Office, Friday Evening. WOOL BETURNS. The following is a return of wool offered and sold by public anctiou m Timaru for the season, 1889-90 (3 sales) :— Bales Bales offored. Bold. N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Co 2217 1875 Canterbury Farmers' Cooperative Association ... 1089 720 Graeio, Maolean and Co ... 743 742 Miles, Archer and Co ... SSI 446 National Mortgage & Agency Co 357 175 Moss Jonas ... ... ... 350 350 MnndellanaCo 300 261 5630 4569 [Note — Bags are inr.luded m above list, 8 bags counting as 1 bale.] CHBISTCHURCH COBN EXCHANGE. The following is the Christohurch Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, July 18th. 189J :— Business m wheat has been somewhat restricted owing m part to the breaking of the cable, and as al latest advices the English market was somewhat unsettled, the interruption has occurred at an unfortunate tima ; prices have hardened, and holders decline rates lately offer-ins 1 , pending fresh quotations from London. Oats show no improvement m valnes, and sales are with difficulty effected noless at prices that are disheartening to growers. Bnyers, however, see no inducement to operate to any extent. Barley — A good enquiry. for prime malting exists, bat medium and feed qnalities, m sympathy with oats, are almost neglected. Beans are taken to fill up spaco m homeward-bound vessels at quotations, the local demand being almost nil. Peas — Bine Prussians are m jpod demand ; there i 3 but little enquiry for other descriptions. Garden varieties are offering more freely with a good demand. Kyograsa — Farmers this season will have the oppor- 1 tunity of supplying their wants either from i imported seed or local stocks, large parcels of English grown having been recently landed. Cocksfoot — A fair business m this line haa come under notice, heavy bright seed being moat m favour. Potatoes — Heavy shipments still continuo to be mado to Sydney; if m sacks and able to be sent down to trm steadier for immediate shipment, a few shillings per ton above quotations can be obtained to fill orders. Dairy Produce —No alteration m prices can be noted. The following are our quotations for the week : — WHEAT. Tuscan 3s 2d, pearl 3s, Hunter's 23 10dt02a lid, whole chick wheat 2s 7d, broken 2s 2d to 2s 6d. OAT 3. Milling Is 7d, short heavy feed Is 6d, long and inferior la 3d to Is 4d. BABLEY. Prime malting 33, medium 2s 3d to 23 Cd, feed Is 6d to Is Bd. BEANS. Beans 2s 6d. PEAS. Hand-threshed Prussians 33, feed 2a 4d to 2s Gd. OBASS SEED. Byegrass, machine dressed 4s 9<l to 53. Cocksfoot — bright heavy seed Id to 446, light and discoloured 2Jd to 31d. POTATOES. Derwects 42s Cd at country stations, sacks extra. The above quotations are those paid to fanners for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks extra.