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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2210, 17 April 1880, Page 2

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S. C. Times Office, Saturday Evening. According to latest advices although large ■shipments are aniving from America and elsewhere brcadstuli's are keeping up their price in the London market. 'Hie result is that there is a good deal of speculative enquiry in our local market, and prices shew a decided disposition to improve. Notwithstanding the fact that a couple of vessels have visited this port chartered direct for Great Britain, a largo quantity of Igrain is finding its way by rail and sailing vessels to Lyttelton, ’.Dunedin, Wellington _ and Auckland, where it will bo transhipped and despatched abroad. The news from Victoria respecting the scarcity of oats m that colony and llio resolution of the Government to withdraw the import duty from that article has made the market somewhat Jinn, and farmers arc generally holding back in the expectation of securing a much better figure than is now obtainable. Quotations arc as follows:—Wheat, inferior, 3s fd to :?s ;)d, prime, 3s lOd to 4s Id ; oats, ls-2d to Is Id ; malting barley, 3s to 8s Gd; potatoes, 412 10s to Til. Dunedin, April IG. Wheat, Is 3d to is Od; fowls’wheat, 3s to 3s Id ; barley, 4s to 4s Gd ; feed, 2s Gd to 3s; potatoes, £2 las to £3 ; old hay, £4 ; new oaten hay, £3 ss; chaff, £3 ; straw, £2; bran, £3 10s; flour, £lO 10s to £lO 15s' per ton, large sacks ; oatmeal, £10; pearl barley. £22 ; onions, Os ; new cheese, sd; bacon rolled, lOd; hams, Is ; bacon, lid. ■ Mr J. B. Bradshaw reports;—Bank of New Zealand shares, £l9 10s ; National Bank, 00s; Colonial Bank, 41s; National Insurance, 20s Gd; Union Insurance 15s 9d ; New Zealand Insurance 50s ; Standard Insurance 8s to 9s Gd ; Otago and Southland Investment, 40s ; Scottish and New Zealand Investment, 20s ; National Mortgage,. 245; Colonial Investment, 20s; Mosigel Factory, GOs; Union S.S., 1755. Sydney, April IG. New Zealand oats, 2s 3d per 401bs; maize, 2s 3d to 2s 9d per GOlbs. Adelaide, April 16. Fricghts from Adelaide to London arc 50s to 52s Gd.