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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2336, 11 September 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office, Saturday Evening. Large quantities of grain are being despatched by rail to Lyttelton for shipment to London The local trade continues excessively dull. Millers have good stocks on hand and there is little or no speculative demand on the part of merchants. Prices are without alteration except as regards barley which shows a material decline. We quote—Lest milling wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; medium, 3s 3d to 3s yd ; fowls’ do, 2s to 2s Gd; barley, malting, 2s to 2s 8d; feed, Is Gd to Is Ud; oats, milling, Is 4d to Is 8d ; seed oats Is to Is Gd; flour, £8 10s to £9 10s ; dciwent .and seed potatoes, 35s to 40s. Dux:-: dtn, Sept. 11. The market for grain remains quiet, but prices arc fully maintained. Quotations arc generally about the same as last week, say, wheat, prime milling, 4s Gd to 4s 9d ; medium, 3s Gd to 4s 3d; oats, prime milling, Is 8d; good feed, Is Gd to Is 7d; barley, prime malting, 3s Gd ; ordinary to good, 2s Gd to 3s nominal; potatoes, £2 us; grass hay. £2 10s; oaten ha}', £3 ; straw, £2; bran, £3 los; pollard, £4 10s ; flour, £lO 10s to £11; oatmeal, £9 10s ; pearl barley, £18; onions, 7s Gd to 8s; cheese, sd; bacon, rolled, 9d; haras, 9r]d; sides bacon, S.ld (grain fed); chaff, £2 15s. Fat Cattle. —Bullocks, £5 7s Gd to £l2 12s Gd; cows, £3 to £lO us. Fat sheep, 9s Gd to IGs Gd, or 2£d per lb. CimsrcHuncii, Sept. 10. Wheat—Good milling is saleable at 4s Id to 4s 2d, and extra prime, 4s 3d; lower grades have been sold at 3s Gd to 4s 10d. The enquiry for seed Tuscan has greatly abated. Oats —Fair sales of both milling and feed samples are reported, the former at Is Gd to Is Bd, and the latter at Is 4d to Is Gd. Inferior qualities have been sold at prices varying between Is Id to Is 3d. In barley, potatoes, and flour, there is nothing to report. Considerable parcels of dressed samples of rye grass have changed hands at prices varying between 2s and 2s 7d, machine dressed, of extra quality, has been sold at a shade over the latter rate. Cocksfoot has not been soiling so readily lately, and prices for this seed arc without alteration. The stock market was much brisker this week. Mutton reached 3d per lb, although over GOOO sheep were yarded, all fat, and not a store among them. Beef, at 22s per lOOlbs, is also in good demand. Auckland, Sept. 10. The state of business is unchanged,steady, and quiet. General transactions are limited, and purchases are of a band to mouth character ; but business is sound, and on the whole satisfactory. The stock and share market is duller than for months past. The same observation applies with equal force to mining property, but the leading mines have not depreciated much. Stocks and general produce arc plentiful. Potatoes are overstocked, and some have been sold at cost for export. Oats are well supplied, and the market is firm, Sydney, Sept. 10. Hennessy’s brandy, case, Bus 3d; bulk, quarters, 10s 5d to 11s. New Zealand wheat, per bushel, 8s 9d ; oats, Is 9cl per 40ibs; maize, per GOlbs, 2s Gd. Adelaide, Sept. 10. Adelaide wheat, per bushel, 4s Id, market dull; flour, £9lss per ton. Freights, 25s 6d. London," Sept. 10. New Zealand wheat, ex ship remains at 425. Adelaide breadstuffs have declined Is, and are now. at 46s Gd for wheat, and 33s for flour, ex warehouse. Australian tallow—Best beef, 34s Gd; best mutton, 3Gs Gd.