DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1030, 5 April 1884, Page 2

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Mr L. MacIiEAH reports :— Wheat : I quote prime milling, 3s 10a to 4s ; ordinary, 3s 6d to 3s 9dv fowls' wheat, 2s to 2s 9d. Oats are inquired for, both milling and feed, but the market is bare. Messrs Weight, Stephbnson, and Co. report : — Wheat : Business in this cereal is almost at a standstill, owing to the great disparity between buyers' and tellers' ideas of value. Oats : The demand for good short oats for shipment is brisk. There is also a fair inquiry for prime milling samples for local use. Mr Dokaid Sxhonach reports :— Wheat : The market is still inanimate. Prime milling wheat is now bought at equal to from 3a 6d to 3s 9d (bags included), delivered in Dunedin. Oats continue in fair demand, and saleable at about last week's quotations— viz. , 2s Id to 2s 2d for stoat bright milling ; Is lid to 2s Id for bright short feed ; la 8d to la lOd for medium— bags included. Mesara Stephenson and Co. report:— Wheat: Prime milling is fetching up to4s2d ; medium, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; inferior and fowls' feed, demand alack at, say, 2s 6d per bushel. Oats: We have sold a few lines during the week at 2s per bushel, bags included, which we consider the top price. Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report:— Wheat : There is not much doing in wheat, millers only buying sufficient for immediate wants, preferring to wait till prices are better established before laying in stocks. Oats: Tery few have arrived, aud in consequence prices are firm at those quoted last week. Barley: Maltsters are not yet purchasing heavily, but milling is wanted, and at present very little offering.

DUNEDJN MARKETS-STOCK, &o. Mr Donald SIBONAOH (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports for the week ending April 2 as follows ; — Fat Cattle.— 2Bo head wore forward at Burnside Yards to-day foe the week's supply, consisting for the most part of light weights and medium quality j only a few pens prime. The demand for the latter was fairly active, prices realised about equal to last week's, but for the former sales were difficult to effect at prices below last week's. Best bullocks brought £7 10s to £8 ; others, £3 12s 6d to £6 17s 6d ; best cowa, £8 5s ; others, £2 153 to £5 ss. We sold drafts, on account of Mews Andrew M'Laren. -(Milton) and S. R. Quartley (Waihola) afc quotations; and quote prime beef barely 80s per JQOlbFat Calves.'— Only four yarded, which sold at 15s 6d each.

Fat Sheep.— The number forward to-day was small— viz., 1260, including 80 merinoa. The trade bought sparingly, and although

this was only a small supply, prices realised were no more than Is per head better than last week; a pen or two crosabreds (vory heavy weights) brought up to 19s 3d ; others, 12s 3d to 15s 3d ; and merinos, 9a to 10s 9d ; We sold 84 crossbred wethers on account of Messrs Ross Bros. (Meadow-bank, Palmerston), at 13s ; and quote mutton 2£d to ,2 id perlb. . , < V Fat Lambs. — 161 were penned/ and soli readily at from 8s to 10s 6d. Fat Pigs. — 148 were penned, compfisitjg all «ort», and sold well at — for suckers, 16s to 16s 6d ; bacon pig?, up to 675. Store Cattle.^-The late harvest and continued low prices for fat stock combine to depr.eßß.the market, .and^pricoaaremofr aoifirm ns lately. Our sales during the week consist of 120 head at the following quotations : three and'four year old bullocks, £3 10s to £5. Store Sheep.— The season, ia drawing., to a-. close, and the few offering being either unsuitable or too high in price, sales are not ao easily effected. During the week we disposed of about 5000 two, four, and six tooth merino ewes at a satisfactory price. Wool. — On Thursday last we held our sixth sale for this season, when we offered a medium catalogue comprising lota held over, aud several clips from late districts, which commanded good competition from our local buyers, and brought prices fully equal to those obtained at our last. Sheepskins.— At our weekly sale on Monday last we offered a mixed catalogue of country dry skins and butchers'' green pelts to the usual attendance of the trade. Competition was brisk up to the level of last week's pricea, without, however, any apparent advance. Dry crossbreds brought 2s to 3s lOd; do merinos, 2b 2d to 3s 9d ; do pelts, Id to Is Id ; green do, Is 4d to Is 7d ; lambskins, Is 6d to Is 7d. Rabbitskina.— There is a good market for all offered. We sold on Monday suckers at lsd, and summer skins at llfd to la 2d "per lb. Hides.— We disposed of all to band, this week at late rates, and have no alterations' to note in either demand or values. Tallow.— The market continues to be barely supplied. All consignments coming meet with ready sale at— for inferior and mixad, 20a to 25.1 ; medium to good, 27s 61 to 32s ; prime, 33a 6d ; and rough fat at 20s to 25s per cwt., according to condition.