AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2022, 20 March 1890, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

Sydney, March, 18. Wheat, chick feed, 2a 9d to 2s lOd ; milling, 3s. Maize, prime sound, is easier at 4s 9d. Oats, heavy feed, are steady at 2s 2d to 2s 4d. Cape barley, 2s i 6J, Bran, 7d. Pollard, 7fd. Peas, blue Prussian, 4s Bd, Potatoes, Warrnambool, 70s; NewjZealand, 80s; Circular Heads, 105 s, Onions, £4 10s. Butter, dairy-made, lOd to Is; factorymade, Is 2d to Is Bd. Cheese, locally, made, 3d to sd; loaf size, 5d to s^d; New Zealand made 6d. Bacon. 6d to Bd.; New Zealand cured, Hams, locally-cured, 6d to 9d; New Zealand cured, lOd to lid. Melbourne, March 18, Wheat, milling, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Flour, stone-made, £7 15a; rollermode, £8 ss. Feed grains are quiet, fteed oats, 3a. Malting barley, 3s lOd. Bran, ll^d. Adelaide, March 18. Wheat, farmers lots at the outports, 3sj 2d to 3s 4d. Flour, stone-made, £8 ss; roller-made, £9 5s to £9 10s. Bran, 8d to Pollar4, Bd. The 'sugar market is firm,

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, March 16. iTallow—Mutton, 24s ; beef, 22s 6d. The wheat market is r dull. Continental is steady; American advancing. New Zealand wheat on the passage, 34s 3d. March 17. A trial shipment of potatoes by the Orient realised 40s per ton; onions, 84s to 88s. The Sydney cheese by the Yaletfca was spoilt by the heat and' realised only 18s per cwt. ■ Melbourne vegetable marrows and 1 onions arrived in excellent condition. The condition of the carrots was fair, but the potatoes packed in hay and paper were rotten. Those packed in earth arrived sound. ! ' ; An Australian wheat cargo, of March-April.shipment, has been sold at 34s 7d. ; The total yield of the English wheat crop in 1889 was 69,000,000 quarters.