COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
WEEKLY- GRAIN REPORT. EvEjrrsfi Mail Office, Saturday Afternoon. A little more energy has b*en infu.-ed into the (train market during the past week, owing to several lines of wheat having been taken up for export, and if we culd ot.ly aee that consummation so devoutly to be wished for. viz., a vessel loading direct from our port for the Home con .try, we believe that the problem of quitting our surplus produce at a payable price, would be as nearly as possible solved. Wheat.—Although the tone of the market is if anything, firmer, quotations remain unaltered. Prime velvet may be quoted tip to 3s lOd ; ordinary milling. 3s Sd to 3* 0.1. Oats.—There has not been much business done in this cereal lately, but prices remain very firm: bright milling oats are very scarce and readily commands 4a 4d to 4=) o"d ; good feed, 3s 9d to3a ltd. Barley.—None in the market. Flour.—Lit i 10a to Lll per ton. Oatmeat.—LSO. Pollard.—Ls ss. Bran.—Ls 15s. potatoes.—Market easier; quotations, Lo 10s, for prime samples. DUNEDIN. TbY TF.LECfRAPK.I August 31. Produce quotations :—Oats, 3s tOd to 4s : wheat. 4s ; barley, 5a to 5s fid ; pollard, L 6; bran, Lu 10s ; flour. Lit) 10a ; potatoes, LB. AUCKLAND. rBYTELEOKAFK.] August 30. Mr. Buckland reports :—Fat c»«tt\ 3T>s to 40a per lOOlba ; dry cows, L 3 It's to L 5 10s ; fat sheep. 4d to 5d per lb. Mr' Binney reports that there is no animation in the market. Flour is stagnant, and it is impossible to move it, excepting in small j, parcels. Quotation*. Lt ItoLI t lOs. W heat <B 9d, millers widl supplied : bran and sharps out of market : oats show a downward tendency in face of large shipments afloat, 4s tfd. Present quotations : Oatmeal, L 22 * pearl barley, 1/24 ; Canterbury pota- * toea, IS to LS 10s ; local potatoes, 1.5 10s to ' • 16: butter, in demand, ts to Is lit per lb.; cheese, Tid to 7Jd ; bacon (cloth), ts 2d ; do Ibare}, 7d to 3d. At the sale by auction thi» day, maize, ex Gael, 1000 bags, realised 4* 3d per bushel.
CHRISTCHURCH. [BV TKLEORAPK. ] August 30. Wheat market depressed, no business doing. Quotations, nominal ■:— Flour, LI I to Ll2; bran and sharps, LT> Ss and Lfi fis respectively ; hams and bacon, 7*d : butter. lid ; cheese, per ton. TIMARL*. (From the Timarn Herald of to-day.) The market is very quiet, and few transactions have occurred during the week. The quotations are as follow : Wheat. 3s lOd : oats, 4s ; barley, 5s 3d : bran, L 5 10s ; pollard, L 7 lon ; potatoes. L 4 10s. AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. [by CARLK.] Svpney. August 30. Case brandy. 3'2s b'd: quarters, unchangi-d : kerosene. Is 8d to Is Od : rice. Java, t.22 Uh to L 22 10s ; New Zealand wheat. Is 7d to 4»9d; New Zealand oats, nil : tobacco and sugar, unchanged ; Belmont sperm. t>d. AnKt.AtDE. Augnst 30. Flour, LU IOtO LI2 t3s ; wheat, 5s 4dto 5s 7d. '
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Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 746, 31 August 1878, Page 2
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