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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2436, 8 January 1881, Page 2

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S. C. Times Office. Saturday Evening. The weather for some time past has been most favorable for the crops, which are fast ripening all over the district. Last year owing to the abundance of moisture there was too much >traw, and the grain itself suffered. This season the dry weather, followed by gentle showers, has filled the heads, and a heavier return of grain may safely be anticipated. The markets are qojet, and prices are stationary. Wheat of first class quality may be quoted at 3s lid to 4s 3d, and oats are worth from lOd to Is for feed samples to Is Bd to Is Gd for milling. New potatoes are scarce, and the dairy produce market shows signs of improvement. Dunedin Jan. 7. Grain. —The local ■market for wheat is dull, millers not caring to operate except at reduced rates. Prices have receded a shade. Oats: 'J here is little or nothing doing except for shipment. 4100 bags have been placed at Is Gd to Is 7d f. o. b. Barley (except really prime samples) is unsaleable. Wheat: prime milling, 4s Gd to 4s 8d ; medium, 4s to 4s 5d ; inferior, 3s 3d to 3s 8d ; fowls feed, 2s Gd to 3s ; oats, milling, Is Gd to Is 7d ; barley, prime malting, 2s Gd to 3s : milling, Is fid to 2s. At Burnside on Wednesday, 199 head of fat cattle were yarded and sold, bullocks, fetching from £0 7s Gd to £l2 5-,and cows £3 Ins to £9 2s Gd. Fat sheep were in comparatively short supply. 1434 bead being penned (of which about GOO were merinos, the remainder being cross-bred, and with good competition from the trade, prices showed an advance of about Is Gd to 2s per head on late rates. Cross-breds fetched from Gs 3d to 11s, and merinos Gs to 8s per head. ■ Fat Lambs.—Glß were forwarded, which were fairly competed for, and sold at from Gs to 9s 9d. Fat Pigs.—l3o sold at from 18s to 4Gs each, CmasxcuuECH, Jan. 7. ' The year has opened very quietly, and so far but few sales have been noted. Good old wheat is still taken np by millers at 4s 3d, and is unlikely to be worth less, from its value for mixing purposes when the new grain comes to hand. Flour is in moderate request at £ll for town brands. Oats remain quiet, though firm, and occasionally a sale of a large lot takes place, but the price seldom transpires. Good milling samples are worth Is Gd to Is 7d, and fee ling descriptions Is 31 to Is 4d. Some parcels of low class old barley have been pushed off at Is 9d to 2s 6.1, accordinc to grade, and a few scales of new grain have been made at 3s Gd, the quality being guaranteed by sellers as prime, Sydney, Jan. 7. Hcnnessy’.s brandy, case, 30s Gd ; bulk, quarters, 11s ; kerosene, diamond, per galloj, Is 7W ; Devoe's kerosene, Is Id : Patna rice, per ton, £23; Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces, per ton, £35 ; New Zealand wheat, per bu-hel, 4s Id ; New Zealand oa f s, per bushel, 2s ; maize, per GOlbs, 2s 8d; tobacco, Haven’s twist, per lb, Is 3Ad ; candles, D.BJ.'s, 8 Ad.