COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2489, 12 March 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

S. C. Times Office. Saturday Evening. . Large quantities of grain are coming forward, and wholesale buyers are doing a brisk trade. The tone of the market is unaltered, and extensive, parcels are changing hands at last week’s' quotations, Wheat of the finest quality has realised up to3s4d. The Margaret Galbraith, which is -the first of our annual fleet of grain vessels, took up her berth on Friday, and will probably receive excellent despatch. The Farmers’ Co-operative Association will have a vessel at the disposal of the shareholders in a few days, and they have arranged for a succession of ships to follow. This will tend to relieve the stores which are generally too small at this season of the year, and it will tend to prevent the risk usually incurred by grain in heaps being exposed to the weather. We quote good samples of wheat at 3s to 3s 4d ; medium quality 2s 6d to 3s. Oats are in good request at Is to Is 3d, and barley is nominal at 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Adelaide, March 11. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 4d, firm. Town flour, £9 7s 6d to £lolos ; country brands, £9 5s to £9 7s 6d, Freights to London, steamers. 46s ; ditto, sailing vessels, 40s to 42s 6d. Sydney, March 11. New Zealand oats, 2s 4d.