DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, DECEMBER 23, 1885.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 35, 25 December 1885, Page 17

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKET, DECEMBER 23, 1885.

J. H. Kilgouk, grain and produce broker, reports under above date as follows : — Wheat : There is a fair demand for good milling parcels, and although arrivals have not been large, transactions having been confined to local buyers, prices remain as reported last week — viz., 3s 3d to 3s 4d for white velvet and Tuscan, and 3s to 3s 2d for red straw. Fowl feed is in active demand at 2s 8d to 2s lid.— Oats : The market is quiet, and prices remain at quotations of last week — viz., Is 9d to lsj 9£d for shipping parcels of bright short feed,, and Is lOd to Is IG-Vd for milling ; while for local purposes qualities sell at Is 8d to Is B^d. — Barley. There are no transactions, and prices are nominally the same as recently reported. Chaff : Arrivals are quite up to requirements. Best quality, £3 2s 6d to £3 5s ; inferor to medium, £2 15s to £3. — Potatoes : I have disposed of all fresh arrivals and picked lots of Derwents at £2 per ton, and local kidneys at £8. — Butter : Fresh, 7d to 7^d per lb for prime, and 6d for medium quality. The market for pa it is considerably quieter, and 8d to Bid is the highest price for prime, kegs extra. — Uheese : s+d to 6d for best quality. — Eggs : Supplies are pretty full this week." My sales have been at Is 2d, but to-day Is Id is the beßt price offering. Mb. F. Meenan, King street, reports :— Wholesale prices including bags : Oats, Is 6d to Is lOd ; wheat, milling 3s to 3s 4d, fowls' feed 2s to 3s ; barley, malting 2s 9d to 3s (dull sale), milling 2s Od to 2s 6d, feeding 2s ; oaten bay, £3 ; rye-grass, £3 ; chaff, £2 15s to £3 5s ; straw, £1 15s to £2 ; bran, £4 10s ; pollard, £5 ; flour, £7 IDs to £8 ; oatmeal, £10 5s to £10 10s ; fresh butter, medium to prime, 6d to 9d; good salt butter, in demand, B^d : eggs, Is ; cheese, 5d to 6d ; bacon, 6£d in rolls, hams 9d ; potato*.^, Derwents, old, £2, new £8 for local kidneys.

Cork, Nov. 7. — The Danish steamer, Con«tantine, chartered by the cattle-dealers who are boycotting the Cork Steam Packet Company, to convey their cattle to England, while proceeding to Liverpool with a cargo of cattle grounded in Cork Harbor. She was subsequently floated this morning without injury to the vessel or cargo. The cattledealers openly charge the Loyalists with bribing the pilot of the Constantino to wilfully ground the vessel