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OTAGO. "The following are the latest quotations :— Flour, $10 10s to £11 per ton ; wheat, 3s 6d to 4s per Trashel ; oats, 2s 6d to 2s 7d do ; barley, 3s to 3s 15d do ; bran, £3 16b per ton ; pollard, £3 15s do ; lay, £3 15s to £4 do ; chaff, £4 to £4 10s do ; ryegrass seed, 4s to 7s per bushel ; potatoes, £2 10s to £2 15s per ton ; carrots, £3 do ; turnips, £1 15s to £3 ; bams and bacon, 9d per lb ; cheese, fid to 8d do ; butter, lid to Is 3d do ; bags, 13s per do*. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. report for the week ending 25th June, 1870, as follows :— Fat Cattle. — There has been a fair supply this treek. One draft of average quality came to hand, which we sold at prices equal to from 18s to 22? per lOOlbs. These rates may be taken as market quotations. Fat Sheep.— The trade are only moderately supplied, and prices are in consequence firmer. We have sold for delivery 500 mixed merino and half-bred Wethers at 2£d per lb, and 300 merino at 2&d. We quote prime half-bred wethers 2£d to 2fd per lb ; do merinos, 2d to 2£d. Store Cattle. — No transactions. Store Sheep. — There is no alteration to report. Horses. —At our sale we offered a large number, chiefly of light and inferior animals, which were quitted at satisfactory prices. We quote first- j class heavy draughts, £40 to £45 ; medium do, i £25 to £30 ; good hacks, £15 to £20 ; light and inferior do, £5 to £8. Grain. — For oats the demand is good, but operations are restricted through holders' limits being slightly in advance of buyers' offers. Barley •nd wheat continue dull of sale. Quotations remain stationary. The Oamaru Times of the 24th ult. reports :— The markets are still very quiet, and prices are unaltered. We fear that a crisis of no ordinary magnitude awaits us, the farmers generally having suffered severely this season. Matters are notyet stt their worst, and it is heartily to be hoped that next year a favorable harvest and better prices may serve to retrieve the position of the agriculturists.
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Southland Times, Issue 1273, 1 July 1870, Page 2
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363COMMERCIAL. Southland Times, Issue 1273, 1 July 1870, Page 2
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