DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1183, 26 September 1885, Page 2

DUNEDIN GRAIN MARKET.

Wheat. — In prime samplea very little business has beeu done. Millers are holding off in expectation of easier prices, and in the meantime are working off sto;k. Whether in millers or agents hands, stocks of good to prime quality are light, auJ holders continue firm. Prime milling is held for 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; medium to good, 2i 9d to 3s 2d ,- inferior and chick feed scarce, and in demand at 2s 3d to 2s Sd per bumhel. Oats. — Business is better all round. Freights to the intercolonial markets being easier, stocks of all kinds have been greatly reduoed, There are no consignments of anymagnitude owning forward from ihe country, and holders of really good parcels are very firm. The market is actually bare of prime oats, and agents hold for higher rates. Quotations are : For prime milling, up to 2s 3d; choice pircels held for more; bright feed, la lOd to 2s j medium, Is 8d to Is 9£d ; discolored, Is 6d to Is 71d. Barley. — Mailing is not inquired for, but a better denund is expected. Milling and feed torts sell at 2i to 2s 8d per bushel.

DUNEDIN MARKETS-STOCK, &c. Btjbnbide Yabds— Weditesdat. Fat Cattle.— l 36 head yarded, tho quality fair to good, including a few prime conditioned cows, which brought full rates. The supply being short of trade requirements, competition, though at first cautious, gradually became more keen, and the closing sales marked en advance on late rates.— Mr Henry Driver sold several drafts on account of various vendors at prices ranging from £5 10s to £9, and quotes b«ef at 25s per 1001 b, and for extra quality up to 27s 6d. Fat Sheep. — 2320 forward, including 660 merinos, and representing all qualities. The trade being well supplied, biddings would have been slack but for tho withdrawal of some 400 in one line. The demand on the whole was good, and last week's values were •ustained. Best crosi-bred wethers brought 14s to 15s ; medium, up to 13} 6d ; merino wethers (prime), 8s 6d to lls 6d. A couple of pens from Canterbury were sold by Mr L. Maclean at up to 19s 3d. Messrs * Donald Reid and Co. sold for Mr C. B. Hnddleston (Roxburgh Station), 180 crocs-bred wethers at 13s 6d; and for Mr John Sutherland (Waitahuna), 60 cross-brtd wethers (nice quality) at 14s 3d ; and quote mutton at 2£d to 2£d per lb. Fat Lambs.— Supplies are now coming forward, and those from the North especially are well-oocditioned. Some of these brought up to 13s 6d, but the general range was from 8s 6d to 10s 6d. Pige.— Over 400 yarded, comprising all sorts. Bacon pigs sold at 25s to 445, two or three extra heavy weight* up to 60i; good stores and porkers, 17s 6d to 245; suckers, up to lls 6d each. Wool. — The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports as follows: — Preßi and other telegrams announce (he market as being steady. The bidding hat •lightly improved. Of 379,000 bales cata29,000 were withdrawn. Reports from the manufacturing countries at Home, of date 3rd July, vary considerably as to the amount of busineis passing, while from the European Continent advices are unsatisfactory, and j tell of decreased consumption. The outlook | in America, on the other hand, is somewhat i more hopeful, and a little inquiry hai been manifested from the United States for suitable Australian wools, the supplies oi! whioh at this season are necessarily limited. j

Sheepskins. — Green iTos-brrds brought at Monday's sules 2s 31 to 3s ll'l ; do merino*, .2.1 tp 2i 8d ; dry crofsbreds, 94 to 3s 3d ; do merinos, 6d/ l to2s lid ; pelts, Id to 6d j lfftnbskins," 8d to 15d. Rabbitskinu. — At Monday's sales competition was active for veil -furred «nd carefully classed winter skin?, which brought for, prime, assorted, 13d*o 15d ; [air to good, 9d'to 12^dy' medium winter and bi&ly sorted! s£d t° 8d ; suckers and low summers, Id to 5d per lb. Hides. — Prices unch»n,?edL * Quotations are : For very prime hen vjM sound- and in exceptional condition, 4d to 4£rl ; medium, to 3£(1 ; light and inferior, 2d to 2£d per lb. ' "Tallow. — Inferior lots of rough fat anl dirty have bean sold lit 7<J to 12s ; inforior and mixed rendered, 14* to 16a ; medium to good, up to 19s ; ypry prime, to 21" per cwt.