THE MARKETS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1915, 10 August 1888, Page 3

THE MARKETS

(PER PKES3 ASSOCIATION)

Sydney. Augnst 9. Potatoes are dull. Warrnambools are quoted at 60s, Ballarats 65s and 70s, New Zealand sample 70s to 755, Tasmanians 755, onions £7 ss. Milling wheat is \v fair demand ; New 5 Zealand 3s 4d, local 3s 6d to 3s Bd, chickwheat 2s 9d. Milling oats 2s 6d, best oats 2s 2d to 2s 4d. Barley — Cape samples quoted nominally at 2s 9d to 3s ; English feed, 3s ; malting, 4s 6d. Bran, dull ; local sorts, 9|d to lOd ; New Zealand, 9£d to 9£d . Pollard is m good demand ; local sorts, lOd ; New Zealand, 9£d. Butter — Locally made, Is 6d to Is 9d ; imported, Is 3d to Is sd. Cheese, 6d to 7d.

Mklbodrnb. Augaet 9. Wheat, 3s 5d to 3s 7d ; flour, stonemade, £7 12s 6d ; roller-made, £8 ; oats, 8s 2^d ; bran, 9d ; hops, advancing. Adelaide. Auenst 9. Wheat is unchanged. Flour, Btonemade, £7 5s ; roller-made, £8 5s ; bran, B£d ; pollard, B£d ; New Zealand oats, duty paid, 3s 4d to 3s 6d.

London, Aogast 7. Fourteen thousand quarters of wheat have been sold, to arrive, at 35s 6d.

London, Augos". 8. .Nine thousand four hundred quarters of Australian wheat, September shipment, have been sold at 37s 8d ; 5100 quarter? ij\ August shipments have been sold at 375. The market is now quieter New Zealand cheese, 525.