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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2378, 30 October 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

B. C. Turns Office. Saturday Evening. The local markets are well stocked with every description of farm and dairy produce. Only small parcels of grain arc offering, and there is but little speculative demand. Wheat of first-class quality is in request for milling purposes, but inferior samples arc a drug and scarcely saleable. Earley and oats arc without alteration. Dairy produce of every description is cheap and plentiful. We quote—Wheat, good milling, 4s to 4s ‘2d ; inferior, 2s to 3s 3d. Barley, 2s (Id to 3s ; inferior, Is 3d to Is fid. Oats—milling, Is fid to Is fid ; feed, Is Id to Is 3d. Butter, fid to fid per lb for fresh; salt, 4d to sd. Eggs, lOd per doz. Cheese, 5d to 7d. Potatoes, 30s to 40s per ton. Dunedin, Oct. 2fi, Fat cattle were in small supply at the sales this week. Biddings showed an improvement on last week’s rates. Stores, £2 to £4 per head ; prime beef, 25s per 1001 b. There was a much diminished supply of fat sheep, and prices advanced fully Is per head. Mutton, shorn, 1H to l;f per lb ; fat lambs, 8s 3d to 8s fid. Good samples of wheat are still in demand, but owing to the bareness of the market sales are limited. Prime milling, 4s fid to 4s 7d ; medium, 4s to 4s 3d; inferior, 3s 3d to 3s fid. Oats, milling, Is 7d to Is Sd ; good feed, Is 4d to Is Od. Good malting- barley is very scarce, prices ranging as follows : —Prime malting, 3s fid; inferior to medium, 2s to 3s 3d. CmusTcnur.cn, Oct. 29. Grain—The week has been very bare of any special character. Business continues quiet, and has been confined chiefly to the filling of orders. The weather has been very favorable for the growing crops, and the reports from the various districts arc all confirmatory on this point. Wheat, 4s to 4s 3d; second class samples, 3s fid to 3s lOd. Oats, Is fid to Is 8d for milling. In remaining quotations there is nothing of interest to note. Mutton is quoted this week at 3d in the wool and 2d for superior shorn. Svdnky, Oct. 29. Hennessy’s brandy, case, 35s fid to 35s fid New Zealand oats, per 401bs, Is fid to 2s ; maize, per fiOlbs, 2s Id to 2s 2d ; candles, D.R.J.’s, per lb. to Bd. Ai)i;r,AiDi:, Oct. 29. The price of wheat per bushel is 4s fid ; the tone of the wheat market is generally quiet ; town Hour, £lO 10s to £lO 15s per ton ; country flour £9 to £fi 12s fid. Freights to London, steamers, 45s ; sailing vessels, 30s ; freights to United Kingdom, 40s ; from out ports, 42s fid. The tone of freight is firm. London, Oct 28. Five per cent New Zealand loan, 101; five per cent New Zealand 1889 loan, 102; four and a half per cent New Zealand loan, 1889-1904,94*. Australian hides--Little enquiry for most descriptions; best Australian beef tallow, per cwt, 31s Sd; best mutton tallow 38s 4d, Auckland, Oct. 29. Business is quiet, and there is little alteration in price. Within the last few days there have been symptoms of improvement in the money market. Bank and Insurance shares and stocks are Jinn, but transactions arc few. Oats continue to range from Is lOd to 2s 3d, according to quality. As for potatoes, they are at a price having been sold as low as £1 Is per ton. A really well-picked lot of Canterbury's might be worth £2 18s or £3.