MARKET REPORTS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3158, 20 September 1892, Page 2

MARKET REPORTS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) report under date: ~ Adklaidk. Augunt 25.—Wheat: The market is firm with only a moderate quantity offering. Fair average quality is worth 4s to 4s 2Jd at Port Adelaide, gro.-s weight, bags included. Under date 23rd iost. our London office cabled us as follows : —" Tho nenrket continues rironpinz. Victorian wheat, f.0.q., is \v.»rth c.i.f. to arrive, o2s 6d, a'id pvc-ls, c.i.f. torn rive, 32s (id, and paic-.-K c.i.f. to arrive, Ills per 4SO lb. Victorian wheat is w. rtl) 33s per quarter ex warehouse. Quotations nominal. Oats: (duty 2s per cental.)— Now Zealand feed oats are worth 2s (Jd to 2s Sd per biuliel in bond Pert Adelaide.

Dun'EDlS'. September B.—Wheat: There is no change of any consequence in the. position of the market so far as regards the supply and demand for prime nulling wheat. A moderate amount of business is passing in this class, but very little being done in any other sort except on rare occasions, and then at prices showing a reduction on quotations lately reported. Best milling velvet and Tuscan, os 3d to 3s Gd extra prime a shade more ; medium t-> good, 2<)d to 3s 2d.— Oats : The demand br these during the past week has not been quite gj satisfactory, nevei theless consideiable quantity quietly changed hands since we last reported, and j-rices then quoted are still firmly maintained. We repeat last week's quotations: Say, for mime feed and milling, 2s to 2s Id ; small lot* occasionally for seed, 2s 2d to 2s 3J.— Potatoes : Tho supply will continues in excess of preventing any show for an improvement in price. Quotations fnrbe.-t Del-went*, 30s to 32s (id ; medium to good, 20s to 27s Gd per ton (ex store, sacks woighed id).— Uhatf : Consignments of this though n->t quite so heavy,are still sufficient for requirement, prices this week showing no improvement on those obtaining !ast;wepk, which are —for best screuued heavy and bright, fiOs to 52s Gd ; inforior to medium and good, 30s to 47s Gd per ton.—Dairy Produce : Market continues quiet, sales confined to requirements for local consumption only. Best salt butter, nominally !)d to lOd per lb ; factory made cheese, medium size, 4Jd to 5d ; loaf, to ojd per lb, but no demand ; dairy-made, 3d to lid per lb. CmusTCIiURCH. September!).—\Vh;at : There is no change in the position of the market, either here or in the Old .Country. Tho anticipations of the England yield are hardly so good as they were stated a fendays since, tho latest estimate being twentytwo bushels per acre. The weather is apparently favourable to the ingathering of their harvest, though, indeed, wrro unfavourable cliin:-: ic changes to ensue the weight of American stocks would preventany rapid upward movement. Prime wheat, which is scarce, is worth 3s 4d t'i os 8d ; second quality 2s Gi to 2-1 10J, da'iiaged from Is lOd upwards, f.0.b., sacks extra. Oats : Xot many otfering, and the market maintains a firm tooe at quotations. Prime milling 2s to 2s Id, good stout Is lid, ordinary long is lid to Is 10d, ex store, sacks extra. —Potatoes : Unsaleable ; nominally •is per ton.