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Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 11648, 4 January 1902, Page 2

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£' THE HOME MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Co., report under - date London, January Ist: —"There is an 5"...."- demand for prime talicTT 4 -for prompt shipment per steamer. |j-*- THE LOCAL MARIbnS. §?■-'- ; The holidays cannot be said to have ■£'■ interfered very much with the produce f ( markets T as in this first week of the new • year the dullness which marked the close of the year ■still prevails. It is a period *" too when in every season things are general!*- quiet, but we may expect a change "in a few weeks, for with a spell >• of fine warm weather "the new crops will ?be gathered in. The sales locally during the past fortnight have been very few, and the all round quotation for wheat is still 2s 3Mf.ob. Most of the holders of wheat ask 5 iac-3s, but some have lowered their limit 2s lid, at which price business is Hffikely to result. There is no "fowF r» wheat" in the market, but there is a good demand at 2s 8d to 2s 9d, and this £• demand is being to some extent satisfied [k by the sale of "good wheat," the broken fe. wheat being the cheapest. -Oats show no change, namely 2s 2d to 2s 3d. on trucks, S~- Timaru. Barley is nominally quoted - at'2s 3d to "2s 4d for prime maltp ing, and if 9d to 2s for feed, but there are u'~ no sellers at these prices.