Market Reports.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5427, 30 November 1895, Page 5

Market Reports.

♦ The return to fine weather, with good drying winds, is a very welcome change to agriculturists, and will permit the . resumption of shearing operations, which have been' greatly retarded owing to the continuance of Bhowery weather. Locally, in the produce market the transactions continue of an unimportant charaoter, as usual at this season of the year. Our wheat market continues unaffected by the cables advising Californian purchases for New South Wales, though local buyers show a disposition not to enter the market until compelled. The samples of new crop Victorian to hand are poor in quality, and compare very unfavourably with laßt year's. Stocks looally are now in very fow hands, and holders are content to await their opportunity of realising favourably. In oats the offerings continue of a very restricted character, but there are speculative buyers for all parcels offering at recent quotations. In otber qereals there is little doing, and the grass seed season is closed. The trade in potatoes is confined to small coastal ordera on the basis of our quotations. Dairy produce continues in tuil supply at quotations. Tho following are prices current:-*- . Wheat.— -(Nominal) 4a to 4s 2d. Oats.— Prime milling, 2s 3d to.-2s4d; short feed, 23 2d j Duns or Danish, 2s to 2s Id. Bakley.— Malting (nominal) 3s, second quality 2a 6d, feed 2s 3d, Cape barley 2s. Beans.— Well saved, 2s 7d. 1 Peas.— Blue Prussians, 3o 6d. Eyecorn.-— Nominally ls 9d to 2s. Flour.— Millers quote roller £10, stone £0 10a, sharps £4, bran £3 155. . Oatmeal .£ll 10b. Oatbheaf Chaff.— 6sa to 67s 6d at country stations; . Potatoes, are quoted at 35s at handy country stations. • Clovbis. — Extra choice machine-dressc'l 6sd to 7d, farmers' lots 4Jd to 53-d according to quality. . Gras3 Seed.— Ryegrass, farmers' lots, 2b 6d to 3s 6d; machine-dresßed to 4s' heavy weight 4s 3d. Cocksfoot 3d to 3id* town machino-dreßoed 4d to 4Jd, extra to 4_d. • Dairy Produce.— Cheese 4d to 4id loaf sd. Butter— Factory Bd, dairy Gd to 7d, salt Sd to 6d. Bacon and bams s_d to 6sd. y ,j