AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 359, 13 April 1889, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Sydney, April 11. Potatoes, New Zealand, £4 10s to £f 15s; Tasmanian, £5 10^5 ss; onions, Victorian, to ; JNew Zealand, 10^14; maize, easy, 3s to 3s 3d ; oats, feed, heavy, 3s to 3s id ; bright milling, 3s 3d to 3s 4d 3 Tartanan, seed, 3s 66 ; bran, easy, is id ; pollard, quiet, but firm at is 3d, Wheat, chick, 3s 8d to 4s; New Zealand, milling, 4s o.d to ss. Large shipments of New Zealand are weakening the market to some extent ; cheese is plentiful, local, 66 to 76 ; New Zealand, 7d to 7}46 ; bacon, local, o.d to 9^d ; New Zealand, oj/gd to lod ; hams, dull, iod to is ; butter, local, plentiful; factory, is 4d to is Cd ; separator, is 3d to is 4d ; dairy, is to is 2d ; imported separator, is to is 2d ; dairy, is.

Sydnky, April 11. The agricultural returns for New South Wales for the year ended March 31st, 1889, show a falling off in the production of cereals, as compared with the returns for 1888, as follows : — Wheat, 3,245,425 bushels; maize, 41,121 bushels ; barley, 47,824 bushels ; oats, 283,846 bushels ; hay, 78,494 tons; lucerne and sown grasses, 177 tons; potatoes, 23,981 tons; sugar cane, 163,690 tons.

Melbourne, April 11. ! Wheat easier; 5s 7>£d to 5s 8d for fair milling sorts. Flour is quiet ■ ( Stone flour, ; second brands, ;£i2. Good oats — seed in demand, 4s 2d to 4s 5d ; stout feed, 3s iod to 3s lid ; barley (Cape), 3s 4dto 3s 6d ; English, 6s ; bran, is 2d to is 3d ; sugar (Mauritius), 255; whites,

Adelaide, April 11. Wheat, 5s 3 farmers' lots, 4s iod ; flour (roller), .£l2 ss; stone, .£ll ; bran, is 3d ; pollard, is 4^d ; oats, 4s ; barley (malting), 4s to 4s 3d ; corn (sacks), 4s 6d ; potatoes (circulars), j£f. Mauritius advices state that .the \ weather is extremely favourable for the ("development of young canes, and unless there is a hurricane next month the crop promises exceptionally well. Pi ices show an improvement of 20 to •30 rupees.