GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5567, 16 May 1896, Page 5

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Although no very large lines of grain have been taken for export duririg the week, a steady business has been passing, ( and the markets for both, wheat and oats , show a healthy tone. All wheat offering , has been readily absorbed for coastwise . orders and for local consumption, and, if . anything, prices for this cereal have still ( further hardened during the week. Any parcels of oats offering are readily taken, '. and this commodity is daily becoming ' scarcer here.- , As prices in the south ; are now within a penny per bushel of those ruling locally, there is no , 'chance of the market falling here, and those who possess prime samples may rest perfectly satisfied that they hold 1 good property. In reply to inquiries from I here, southerners quote Is lid per bushel ; for short feed, but it must be stated that these quotations are " sacks extra," whilst , those here are for "sacks in/ which, brings their prices to within a shade of those ruKng here. Business in barley is almost at a standstill, and only one or two small lines have changed hands. Good samples of Blue Prussian peas are still in request, and meet a ready sale at quotations. A correspondent having requested the publication' of 'prices paid for clovers, these 1 will be found below j but it must be remembered that the present time is between two seasons, and therefore comparatively little is being done. Potatoes are slightly easier in sympathy with the Sydney market. The bottom appears to have, fallen out of the onion market for the present, the large quantities • shipped to Sydney having temporarily glutted the market there, and buyers are now chary, of operating at even £6. It is generally thought, however, that a revival will take place very shortly, and those who possess really good lines will probably have no reason to regret holding for better prices. Oatsheaf chaff is still wanted for Australia, and there are a number of inquiries for baled hay and straw for the Sydney market. The following are current prices :— Wheat. — Pearl (prime milling), 3s 2d to 3s sd; millers' mixed lines, 3s, to 3s 4d; Tuscan, 3s 3d to 3s 4d: Hunter's, 3s 3d to 3s 4gd; good seconds, 2s 8d to. 2s lOd. . Oats. — Prime milling 2s 2d ; good seed Tartars 2s 3d; 3hort feed to 2s Id; Duns and Danish and good short feed 2s Id. Barlet.— -Malting, prime, 3s 6d to 3s 9d (nominal) ; medium do, 3s to 3s 3d ; second quality 2s 6d to 2s 9d, feed 2s 3d. Beans. — (Nominally) Well-saved 2s 3d ; ticks, 2s 4d to 2s 6d. Peas. — Blue Prussians, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; others, 3s. Flour. — Millers quote roller iJIO, stone £9 10s, sharps JJ4, bran .£3 10s. Oatmeal >£10. Oatsheaf Chaff. — 50s to 52s 6d at handy country stations. Onions. — £6 at country stations. Potatoes. — Derwents 32s 6d at country stations. Grass Seed. — Ryegrass, farmers' lots, 2s to 2s 9d; machine-dressed to 3s 9d, heavy-weight 4s. Cocksfoot 2sd to 3d, town machine-dressed. 4d to 4sd, extra to 4gd! Cowgrass 4d to i>7}d. White clover 4d to 7£d. Alsyke 4d to s£d.. Dairy' Produce. — Cheese 3sd to 4d, loaf 4d to 4£d. Butter — Factory lOd, dairy 8d to 9d, salt 6d to 7d. Bacon and hams •s*d. . Colonial Hops. — Brewers' sorts 8d to 9£d at Nelson. The above prices are paid to farmers f.o.b. Lyttelton, except where otherwise stated.

Canterbury- Hose Society. —At the meeting of this society, held op Thursday, the question of adding certain varieties to the catalogue of exhibition . roses was brought before the committee, and it was decided to add the following to the list : — Hybrid perpefcuals — Captain Hayward, . Marchioness of Lome, Marchioness of i Londonderry, ! Mrs Shai*man Crawford, Madame Clemence Joigneaux and Penelope Mayo ; hybrid teas — Bafonne G. de Noir- . Mont, Gloire Lyonnaise, Lady Henry , Grrosvenor and La France of '89. It was decided to strike out the following: — ■ Hybrid perpetual — Devienne Lamy ; tea — '. La Boule Dor. • One London gas company reports that ', the pennies dropped into its slot meters in six months numbered 7,370,535, weighing k over sixty-three tons. 1 A law student appealed against the deci,sion of the Benchers on their refusal to call him to the Bar. The Judges upheld L the decision of the Benchers. i The arrangement of the trees in Blenheim Park, the seat of the Duke of Marlborough, ' is said to represent the position of the troops in the great ba,ttle which gave the ; estate its nair>e. A French doctor has started tie heory j that cholera, typhus, and pa'.udu n fa /or 3 are greatly due to the want o" 0 one, but [. that grippe and most of the inia. iw? Tory \> diseases are aggravated by it. ; There is but one factory in .Taj m ™^.iere r leather shoes are made. The <8 ■' - cept about tho court, U*ear Siiji . . .ir / 3 or woec 3 .' . ■ . [ ■T:!tu« ■ kj-vrns for,'-, mv-.&o in iv : ■ : . j ."Why clo atruiy niatclica li^lil- -....„■ --J , box? Because the phosphorus is on the box i and not on the match, said Sir Henry Boscoe, in a' lecture recently.