DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1361, 4 July 1885, Page 3

DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS.

Wheat.—Notwithstanding Home advices as to advance m values of cargoes to arrive, this market is, if anything, weaker. Still holders of prime qualities are firm, and appear determined to hold, while millers have sufficient supplies of various standards to carry them on in the meanwhile, and therefore are not compelled to move the market. Quotations are : Prime milling, 3s to 3a 2d ; good 2s 9d to 3s; damaged and inferior, Is 6d to 2s 3d. Oats—There has bean a steady demand for prime and sound oats during the week, and very substantial clearances have been made for shipment. Prime milling sorts are worth la 8d to Is BJd , short bright feed, Is 7d to Is 7|d ; long and inferior, Is 6d to Is 7d.

Barley.—Very little demand. Prime malting sella at 3s. Milling parcels are not sought for, and feed is in limited request at up to 2s. Chaff,—The market is over supplied, and recent quotations can hardly be got. Potatoes—£3 2s 6d for prime Derwents. There is no demand for kidneys, which are offering plentifully. Turnips—2os per ton for best Swedes. Carrots—Supplies are now in excess of demand. Prices, £ll7s 6d to £2 per ton. Butter—The market is fully supplied with second-class quality, but anything exceptionally prime would sell at BJd to 9d per lb, kegs extra. Fresh is wanted at up to Is per lb for prime quality. biggs are now arriving freely. Price, about Is 4d per dozen.

Sheepskins.—Monday’s sales were well attended, but values were scarcely up to late rates. We learn, however, that privately contracts have been taken for the current month at—for crossbreds up to 4s 4d, and for merinos up to 3s Bd.

Hides are without alteration, prices current for month being well sustained—viz., prime heavy, 4jd; good, 3|d to 4d ; light, 3d to 3£d. Tallow—inferior and mixed is worth 16s to 18s ; medium, 19s to 2ls ; good to prime, 22s to 245. Rough fat, 12s to 14s per cwt.

DUNEDIN STOCK MARKETS. At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was trans-. acted ;

Fat Cattle—l 99 head forward, nearly all only medium quality. Really prime beasts—of which there were very few - brought nearly last week’s rates, but others suffered a decline of fully 2s 6d per 1001 b. Best bullocks brought £8 to to £lO 2s 6d ; fair to good, £6 to £8 7a 8d ; inferior, £4 to £5 7s 6d ; cows, £5 10s to £7 15s. Beef, 15a to 20s per lOOlbs, according to quality. Fat Calves sold at 16a and 255.

Fat Sheep—33oo head forward, a supply far in excess of requirements, with the result of another fall in prices fully equal to 3s per head on rates of last week, and, if anything, under the low values quoted three or four weeks ago. One pen extra heavy crossbred wethers brought 17s 6d ; others, 9s 3d to 10s 6d ; good to prime, 13s 6d to 14s 6d. Mutton, 2d per lb. Fat lambs, 8s 9d to 9a 3d. Pigs—Bacon pigs at from 38s to 52s ; porkers, at from 24s to 30s; stores, at from 12s to 21a.

BNGLIIS MABJETS. Lonpoh, July 2. Colonial breadstuff's—-Adelaide wheat, ex store, 35s 6d ; ditto, off* coast, 35s ; Adelaide flour, ex store, 25s ; New Zealand wheat, ex store, 27s to 34s ; off coast, 31s 6d, Tallow Australian, fair average quality, beef, 28s 6d ; mutton, 31s. The stock of tallow in London is 15,000 casks, being 900 casks less than that of last month.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following from their London office, dated 30th June ; —“ The wool market is unchanged, but there is still much irregularity in the biddings. Tbs total quantity catalogued up to tc-day is 239,000 bales, and the total quantity withdrawn is 36,000 bales. The sales programme has been curtailed by four days. The next sales will commence on the Ist September, and the fifth series on November 17th.”