MARKET REPORTS.
GRAIN AND.TP&ODUCE. . Although the weather, has been very unrfavourable, - a good. deal. .of grain still continues to come forward for shipment, bills' much is rejected. at -..the. ship's side. The wheat market is a shade tinner, and although speculators for shipment have.secured all that isi-wanted for the present, local millers andi buyers for the North'lsland show a keen-interest in all that is pn the market, and, any prime samples offefied meet with a ready sale at a slightly advanced rate. Oajts.are'/eoming forward, very sparingly, and ..the market shows a still further hardening tendency. Nothing* .bas been doing in .Mrieyr.as there is no prime malting offering, although there are quite a number of inquiries- for this gradej-.but feed sorts, which are plentiful), are not in request. The news- from Sydney as to* the potato market, is of. a very unsatisfactory nature. The '.market there has dropped to 42s 6d, and a good,taa*y shippers from; here of Blue Deiwents- haye had their draffs returned, and the potatoes rejected, the- reason given being .the very-bad state in which the cons : gnments have arrived. This has had the effect cf putting; the market back"- here, and yesterday 17s" 6d was the best 'offer at country stations-, and even at thcbo.' price buyers were- not anxious to operate- . Great difficulty is experienced in getting (/diggers, and as the 'growers have to pay,- on an average, 6s* per ton, at present prices there is very little' left'ftfr them after paying other charges and delivering. "Onions still iiiaintain 30%, with' a rather sluggish sale. Butter is gett'ng .rather scarce, and at' is more than lii-fety-that'-before the end of-'the week prices vrill'adVaia.'e a penny per-bV The following;, are quotations.;,-^ . "Wheat. — jf rime ■ milling Pearl and, Tuscan 2is 4Jil; lair average "quality 2s 3d, prime milling Hunter's 2s 3d, fair average quality 2s 2d. ; Barley. — Prime malting (nomiift£f) 3s, second ary parcels 2s 3d" to 2s 6d deliveijsiijsL Cari^,_Bßdieiy^2s to 2s 2d. Uais. — Milling Canadians Is .Gdi short feed Is 3d to ls sd, Duns ls 4d and('.i))*nish Is id, Tr-Hnrian ls 3Jd. PiAnrvr-=MxS*«s quote rolles-j- iSTi stone £6, sharps .£3. aOs,,b-_n _£2 15s. Oatmeal.— 'i&L ■_ Oatsheaf CHwfi".— New 32s Gi_i& country ?Jations. I y PotatoGs~-=Derwents 17s 6<3£ ait country • air. tifjas^ • OnionstprSOfe. _-BSmq^=29 'id to 2a 6d.{. Peas.— J3luft Prussians 3sv>t«>.3s 3d. Seeds.-— Jly,egrass, farmers l - 'lines, ls 3d ;tb ls t>d for fair -arid up to 2s 6d f<3*rprime heavy* far*. mers'v seoe^ Cocksfoot, farnsjHcs' dressed jltnes, -*??d to 3Jd. Cowsrrass srl to (81. "White cjover, itzm&& Unns, Sid. to 74.1. ,$ Dairy Produce. — Cheese ,3td to 4d, I&af 4d 'to sd, fs^tpry (large) 4d to._i&-. Butter-r-Fresh !j factory did, ditto in boxes 9d hoi o_d, 'best dairy Bd, ' salt- ia , boxes 6_j +0 l7difor;- WKime. Bacon and] hams 7_d__6 BJd, .fuctojjfv gd per lb higher*. ) The above prices, excopt where o'tiierwise jStatsdj.are those paid ;-to> Sinners f .c jbb. Lytteljton.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6499, 31 May 1899, Page 4
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