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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2402, 27 November 1880, Page 2

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S. C. Times Office, Saturday Evening. Mr Moss Jonas reports for the week ending Nov. 20, as follows: Grain and Produce —There have been several enquiries during the week for good hard samples of milling wheat but none are olteiing. Damaged wheat and fowls corn is selling at from Is 3d to 2s Od per bushel; Hour, 10s to 010 10, for guaranteed Inands; bran, at 80s; sharps, no sale; prime feed oats, Is 3d; milling oats, Is Od; potatoes, owing to the quantity in the market, and the had order in which the late hot weather has placed them, are selling at from Is to 2s (id per sack. Cattle.—Desidcs private sales, ho submitted 50 head on Thursday at the yards, when every beast was sold, and the following rates obtained:—Yearlings, 50s; steers, £5; springing heifers, £0 to £7 ; cows, £5 10s to £0 15s; bullocks, in fair condition, £7los. These quotations may he taken as fairly leprcscnting the present state of the market. Sheep—He has sold privately for Mr Wareing 800 eross-breds, in the wool, at 15s od. Several lots of shorn cross-brcds lie lias quitted at from Os 3d to 11s; and merino wethers at from is 3d to ss. There isagieat demand for two and four-tooth store sheep, and fair prices arc obtainable. The value of mutton may be taken as l?d to 2d. CiniisTcimieir, Nov, 20. Good samples of milling wheat are taken up by millers at is 3d when offered, and medium quality at from is downwards. Flour continues to Hnd a fair outlet at £lO 10s to £ll, according to biand. The slight depression in oats still exists, and until freight to London is more plentiful it is not likely any improvement will take place. Good milling samples arc nominally quoted at Is Od, and feeding sorts at Is 3d, but we have not heard of any transactions on which to base quotations. Very little barley has linen offering, and that little not of the best. The only transactions that have been reported range from Is Od to 2s Od, but considerably more could easily be obtained for malting lots. Butter continues to he quoted at Od, and cheese at 34 to 4d. Hams and bacon arc moving off more freely at Hid bare and Od in cloth. Dc.vkdin, Nov. 20. Oats, Is 5d to Is 8d per bushel; milling wheat, is to is 8d per bushel; fowls' feed, 2s to 3s ; barley, malting, 2s (id to 3s Od ; feed, Is Od to 2.-, (id per bushel; hay, £3 per ton; chaff, 02 15s per ton; straw, £2 per ton ; bran, £3 10s per ton ; pollard, £4 per ton; Hour, £lO 10s to £ll per ton; oatmeal, £0 10s per ton ; butter, fresh, (id to 8d ; salt, very unsaleable, (id to-.sd ; eggs, Is 2d ; bacon in rolls, 8d; side, Hid ; hams, lO.hl; fresh poik, lOd per lb ; potatoes, £1 10s to £2 per ton. Meliiouuxe, Nov, 20. Fifteen hundred hags of New Zealand oats have been sold at 2s 7d per bushel. The market is improving owing to the new duties. Adelaide, Nov. 20. Wheat 4s Sd per bushel. Town Hour, £lO 15s; country, £0 10s to £0 15s. Frieghts to London by sailing vessels, 45s ; to United Kingdom, 47s (id ; freights to United Kingdom from outports, 50s. Sydney, Nov. 2(1. Hennessy’s brandy, case, 30s (id; bulk, quarters, 10s Od ; mai/.e, per OOlbs, 2s Id ; tobacco, Raven's twist, Is 7d; candles, D.R.J.’s, per lb, 8,ld; candles, D.U.O.’s Hd. London, Nov, 24. New Zealand securities have advanced by .1 to 1 per cent, the following being today's quotations : —5 per cent 10-40 loan, 102; 5 pgr cent 1880 loan, 101.1 ; 44 per cent 1870-1004 loan, 74?. Adelaide and New Zealand breadstuff's arc unchanged at last quotations.