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Temuka Leader, Issue 1967, 9 November 1889, Page 4

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OH-EISTOHUROH GOKN EXCHANGE. The following is the Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, Nov. Bth, 1889 : As is usual during carnival week, little attention has been given to actual business, only pressing shipments meeting with recognition. Wheat is without alteration, although stocks are being eased off by shipments to London. Oats continue languid, except for local consumption passing along. Barley meets with little enquiry, the season being too far advanced for malting to any great extent. Grass seeds are without animation, and quotations unaltered. The same may be said of dairy produce, although we note a slightly better tone in butter for Home shipment, Our quotations for the week are as follow : Wheat—Tuscan, 3s 4d; pearl or velvet, 3a to 3s Id; hunters, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; whole fowl wheat, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; broken, 2s 3d. Oats—Prime milling, 2s 6d; short heavy feed, 2s 3d to 2s 4d; long and inferior, 2s to 2s 2d. Barley—Malting, 3s 6d; medium, 2s 9d; feed, 2s to 2s 2d. Beans, 3s 3d. Peas—Prussian blues (true to name), 3s 9d to 4s. Kyegrass—Town, machine-dressed, 4s 3d to 4s 6d; farmers' lines, 3s to 3s 6d. Cocksfoot—Heavy bright seed, to 3f d. Potatoes Derwents (nominally), 50s to 555, at country stations. Dairy Produce—Cheese, 3|d to 4d ; butter, 5d to 6d. The above prices are those paid to farmers for delivery f.o.b. Lyttelton, sacks extra, potatoes excepted. DUNEDIN PRODUCE MARKETS. The following is the report for the week ending Wednesday:— Wheat there is absolutely no animation in the market for this cereal, and sales are quite unimportant. Very prime milling has a little inquiry, and fowls' wheat is always in fair demand, but medium milling meets with no at tention whatever. Quotations, nominal: Prime tuscan,'3s 4d to 3s sd; red straw and velvet, 3s Id to 3s 3d; medium to inferior, 2s to 3d. Oats—This market has again experienced a check, and the anticipations that late rates would be realised till the new harvest have so far not yet baen sustained. Stocks are now in fairly small compass, and for the most part holders are firm. Milling, 2s to 2s 2d, stocks of this quality being light; stout heavy feed, Is lOd to Is lid; extra prime, 2s; medium feed, Is 8d to Is 9§d; Danish, in small demand at Is 8d to Is lid; black, not inquired for. Quotations ex store, sacks extra. Barley—Transactions passing are quite unimportant. Only very prime lots are saleable at late rates. Grass Seed—We quote: Poverty Bay ryegrass, 5s to 5s 6d per bushel; machine-dressed (local), 4s to 4s 6d ; undressed do, 2s to 2s 9d; Akaroa cocksfoot, 3d to 4|d per lb (ex store, bags extra.) Potatoes—The market is weaker, and prices are 20s to 25s per ton less than last week's, £4 to £4 15s are ruling quotations. Pigs—Well fed up to 1401 b, 4d; hams, 9d; rolls and flitches, ©d to 6£d. Chaff— Prom £2 10s to £3 ss. Turnips, little demand. Carrots, little demand. •Straw—Oaten and wheaten, 40s and 355. Butter—No demand ; stocks are gradually getting lower as eyery steamer takes her quantum to London. 200 packages brought 4d per lbpackages 3s each. Honey, 4£d. Cheese—Factory, 4|d to sd; Akaroa, B£d to 4d. Sheepskins—On Tuesday butchers' green crossbreds, 7s 2d to 5s 6d; do do merinos, 6s 4d to 5s lid; country dry crossbreds, 4s to 5s Id for good' [full woolled skm» and soun,d pelts:; r medium and inferior from Is 6d to 3s 9d; dry merino skins, in good condition, sold at 3s 3d to 5s 9d, a choice lot realising 6s sd; green pelts sold at 5d to 7d; lambskins, lOd to Is 4d, Hides—There is no change to record, and prices remain unaltered. Medium and light weights, badly saved, are now more than ever difficult of sale, except at very peor prices. Tallow is in better demand, and all lots coming forward are rapidly placed at late quotations. DUNEDIN STOCK MARKET. ! At the Burnside Yards on Wednesday the following business was trans- | acted: — j Fat Cattle—2s6 head yarded, mostly of good quality, consequently prices were slightly easier; but for prime beef there was a good demand, bullocks realising from £lO 10s to £7 10s, and cows from £9 10s to £7, while some extra quality bullocks from the Timaru show sold up to £l4 per head. John Grindley sold for Mr J. M. Greenaway (Bulmer, Rangitata), 10 bullocks at £lO 5s to £8 2s 6d, 2 cows £7 12s 6d. Fat Sheep—4l46 were penned, 450 of which, were merinos. Although there was an over supply, prices did not suffer greatly. All through tlbere would be a difference of about 2s per head lower, but the extreme prices which were obtained last week were not expected to hold. Wethers (in wool) sold up to 19s 9d; ditto (shorn) j 14s 6d; ewes (in the wool), 19s 3d.''

ditto (shorn), lis 6d, John G-rindley sold for Mr William Grant (Elloughton Grange), 119 prime crossbred wethers at 14s 9d to 15s. Fat Lambs—4B3 were penned, nearly all good quality. All were disposed of at prices ranging up to 14s. Pigs—3B2 came forward. Bacon pigs, extra heavy weights, brought from 60s to 755; do do ordinary do, from 36s to 545; porkers, 24s to 355; stores, 12s to 28s; suckers 6s 6d to 14s. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Sydney, Nov. 6. There is no animation in the wheat market. New Zealand chick feed, 3s 4d; milling, 3s 8d to 4s Id; Californian, 4s 8d; Adelaide, 5s 3d, Flour, steady, New Zealand •stonemade, £9 5s j roller-made,' £lO 15s. Oats, feeding, 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; milling; 2s Bd. Maize, 3s to 3s 2d. Barley, Cape, 2s 5d to 2s 6d. Bran, firm, 9d! Pollard is also firm at Bd. : Oatmeal, £l2 10s. Potatoes, N.Z., £3 to £4; Circular Heads, £4lss to £5; Onions, £l6, declining. Butter, dairy, 6d to 8d; factory, lOd. Cheese, 4d to 6d to 7d;New Zealand, 9d to 9£d. Hams, Is. Melboubne, Nov. 6., There is no business doing owing tojthe races. Flour, stone-made, £11; roller-made, £ll 10s, and upwards. Oats, 3s lOd. Peas, 4s lOd. Maize, 4s 6d. Nov. 7. The New: Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company sold 5000 bales at their wool sales to-day. There was animated competition, merino fetching prices equal to pre r vious rates, and crossbreds to Id higher. The following (> are the top figures:—Greasy merinos 13|-d, lambs 14d, pieces 10|d, erossbreds scoured merinos 20|d, scoured lamb 17id, fleece 18d. Adelaide, Nov. 6. New wheat, 4s 3d; old, 4s lid. Flour, stone-made, £lol2s 6d ; rollermade, £ll 15s. Oats, 3s 8d to 4s. Bran, 7|d. Pollard, 9d. Potatoes, weak,' Circular Heads, £6 10s. Cheistghubgh, Nov. 7. Owing to the steady advance in the value of wool unusual interest is taken in the results of the sales which commenced today. 456 bales were offered tb-day. The bidding was animated. Prices were as follows : Half-bred, 12|d; crossbred, 10|d ; long wool, B£d; merino, lOd; quarterbred scoured, IB|d. ENGLIBH MARKETS. London, Nov. 6. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,844,000 quarters, and for the Continent 396,000 quarters. The American visible wheat supply is 25,750,000 bushels. Bf»w«i i iiia»r,^iii.^i|iimiinm