DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1155, 20 June 1885, Page 2

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Wheat.— Business daring the week has been exceedingly quiet, and to effect sales slightly lower prices hare been accepted. Millers are fairly weir stocked, and, there hating been no inquiries for shipment, operations hare been restricted to a few trans* actions. Prime milling sorts, velvet and Tuscan only, are inquired for, and sell at 3s Id to 3s 3d ; Hunter's white, 3s 3d ; red straw, 2s lOd to 3s ; market glutted with inferior and fowl feed, prices for which are nominally Is lOd to 3s 5d per bushel. Oats.— Large quantities coming forward, a, considerable proportion, however, in bad con* dition. Being Unfit for storing, immediate sales of inferior qualities'' must' be' 'made at low rates to avoid attain loft. For prime milling and bright feed there is an improved demand, bat without an/ effect as jejb on value?. Were suitable shipping facilities available, a large business could be done in these. Quotations ; Bright milling and short bright feed, Is 8d to Is Bsd ; a smalf, parcel eitra prune, Is 9d,; good short feed, Is W to Ik 7*d ; Danish/and discolored, Is 5d to., laed. ' ' ' U <-' 1 Barley.— Very little business doing. The market is heavily stocked with inferior sorts. There are qualities of plump bright barley in store, unfit for mailing, because injured in threshing. MaUtero, having full supplies on '

hand, only buy sparingly, and prime samples ar<« quoted at 3s to 3* 3 I, and 3i 6d for extra. Prices of milling sorts and feed nomin^J. $ dunedin. Markets-stock,' &o. j " ' BUBKSIDfI YA^JJS— WEDNESDAY. Fiit Cat(.le.j^233,vhead-'jardod, dearly All 3°^ s^ s^^^^^^ Ppllpwxp^i#fl.vipu9J large sappias^.he\iumber'Msanucn;in eto^fs of requirements, and Bales ; Fwgro difficult to effect at a decline on lash week's rates. Best I bullocks brought £8 to £&&7s 6i ; pthors, £4 5s to £7 10s ; cows, £4, to £$ Fat Sheep.— 272l penned, inclfudfog 668 merino. wiit.hpra.^Tlie HW fljipnlx^sa» &<llM x : . cessivo; and in the absenco of buyers for freezing pjuf poses', the imarke.fr proved about, the worst of the season. ' A few of the very \Mfjm ,toghj L«P^to nearlvjast^;? rates; but ffkpg the m,ark^alTrounoi there was a fall of 2s to 2s 6d per head, and seveial hundreds were turned out unsold. „ „ ' Horses. — Messrs Wright, Stephonion' and Co. quote firit-olass draughts' at i from £28 to £35 ; medium,' £16 to £25 ; first-class hacks and light-names* horses,< £20 ito £30 1; medium, £10 to £16 ; light and ! inferior, £3 to £6. j Pi?*.— 49B Of all i descriptions> p*nnfd. Suckers and stores brought from 6i 6d to 18s ; porkers, 28s to 37s 6d ; bacon pigs, 38s to 565. Store Cattle.— There are inquiries for wellbred, large-framed cattle, but owing to the low price of beef buyers do not feel justified in approaching vendor's termi. Wool. — Latest London advice* show thr I Tallies of lower qualities cros«-b#^cl» to bf about the same as at previous sales^but finer descriptions '' have advanced. Merino ;ii easier, and faulty hat declined id to Id be'ow April rates. Sheepskins.— The sales on Monday secured a full attendance of buyers, and, under active competition, all lots offered were disposed qf at full rates. Dry skins : Inforior crossbreds brought from lOd to 2s ; best do, 2s 6d to 4s 2d; merinos, It 2d to 4s 81; butchers' green cross-breds, 2i 7d to 3s lid ; do merino, 3* to 3s 9d ; dry pelts, £d to sd ; lambskins, 8d to 2s 4d. Babbitskins. — Parcels are coming forward more freely, and command more attention, but at a marked decline on last season's rates. Prime winter skins bring 9d to Is ; medium, 6£d to 7sd ; inferior and suoker*, 2d to 4}d.

Hides continue in active demand, local buyers taking all offered at fully lato rat.es. Quotations: Heavy ox hides, 4d to 4sd; medium, 3d to 3£ ; cut and slippy, 2d to 2id per lb.