PRODUCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 14, 7 April 1904, Page 13

PRODUCE.

London, Aipril I.— Wheat.— Small inquiry for cargoes. Butter — A further decline in Copenhagen. It has been a depressed market for the trade all the week, having been of a holiday character. Danish, l(J2s • New Zealand, 91s to 93s ; Victorian, 90s to 1 925. Ohjeese : Dull. New Zealand, 495. Frozen Meat : Lamb — Canterbury, light and heavy, 5d ; Dunedin and Southland, 4 13-1 6 d ; North Island', % 11-16 d j Riiver Plate, 4£d. Beef— New Zealand hinds, 3 id ; fores, unchanged ; River Plate fores, 2£d ; hinds, u,n,oha/nged. Mr. F. Meenan, King street, Dunedin, reports :— Wholesale, prices only— Oats : Milling, Is 5d to Is 6d ; feed, lid to Is sd. Wheat: Milling, 3s to 3s 3d; fowls', 2s 4d to 2s Bd. Potatoes : Kidneys, £2 ; Derwents, £2 10s per ton. Chafi, £2 5s to £3. Straw : Pressed wheat, 32s 6d ; oaten, 35s ; loose, 355. Flour : Sacks, £9 Us ; 100 ft, £ro ; 50ft, £10 5s ; 25ft, £10 10s. Oatmeal, £9 10s. Pollard, £4 10s. Bran, £2 10s. Butter : dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : factory, s£d , dairy, sd. Eggs, Is sd. Onions : Melbourne, £5 Invercargill prices current.— Wholesale — Butter farm, 6d ; separator, 8d ; butter, factory, parts, lOJd. Eggs, Is per dozen. Cheese, (factory), 6£d.' Hams, v 9id. Potatoes, £2 pter tton (ba|g|s weighed in). Barley, 2s to 2s 6d. Chaff, £2 per ton. Flour, £10 to £11. Oatmeal, £9 to £9 10s. Bran, £3. Pollard, £5. Retail.— Farm butter, 8d ; separator, lOd; butter (factory), pats, Is. Eggs, Is 3d per dozen Cheese, Bd. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd. Potatoes, 3s 6d per cwt. Flour, 200 ft, 22s ; 50ft, 6s 6d. Oatmeal, 50ft, 5s 6d ; 25ft, 3s. Pollard, 8s 6d per bag. Bran, 4s. Chaff, Is 6d. Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. (Limited) report :— We held otur weekly auction sale of grain and produce at our stores on Tuesday There was only a moderate attendance of buyers, but under fair competition mast of the lines on offer were cleared at valuations Values ruled as under ■ — Oats — Consignments have been coming much more freely to hand, and as there is only a limited demand for export stocks have accumulated somewhat. Prime milling lines, particularly Sutherlands, have good inquiry, but for all classes of feed oats values are a shade easier Quotations : Prime milling, Is (3d to Is 7d ; good to best feed, Is 5d to Is s^d ; medium, Is 3d to Is 4£d , inferior, lOd to Is 2d per bushel (sacks extra). Wihcat —Local millers' operations are chiefly confined tio prime northern samples, most of the southern, wheat now coming forward being of very indifferent quality. Fowl wheat is offering freely at quotations. Quotations . Prime milling, 3s to 3s 3d ; good, 2s 9d to 2s lid ; medium, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; whole fowl wheat, 2s Id to 2s s^d , broken and damaged, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes — Consignments continue to arn\e steadily and values are practically unchanged Quotations : Best Derwents, £2 5s to £2 10s ; others, £2 to £2 ss, kidneys (Up-to-datcs and other white sorts), £1 10s to £2 2s 6d per ton (sacks in). Chaff —All consignments of prime, bright, oaten sheaf are readily dealt with, but medium and inferior qualities continue to be quite out of favor with buyers, and are difficult to quit at quotations Quotations : Prime oaten sheaf, £2 15s to £3 ; medium to good, £2 to £2 10s, Imht and inferior, £1 10s to £1 17s 6d per ton (bags extra).