COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2082, 7 August 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS.

. Sydney, August 5

. Wheat is a shade firmer. Chick feed, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; good and sound, 3s lOd. . Oats, off sorts, Is to Is XOd ; best bright; heavy feed is a little scarce at Is ,l,ld i ; Maize,.; local,! 3s; 6d tp 3s ,9d; New Zealand, 3s Bd. Barley, very dull, 2s 3d. Bran, quiet, 7£d. Pollard,, dull, 7d. f Peas, best blue Prussian, are easy at 3s 9d. ; Potatoes, Circular Hegd, :§B,§ji New Zealand, £3. IQs,; is glutted and fullythreeweeks’.supply is on hand. Onions "are, steady. , Victorian,, £11; New Zealand, £l3. Butter, local dairy : made, 8d to 9d; separatormade, 9d to , lid ; fpctory-made, lid to Is. Cheese, to 3d; loaf size, sd, Bacon, machine-cured, 4£d to j hand-curbd, 6d to j New Zealand, 9d to lOd. Hama, local cured, 6d to 9d; New Zealand, 10d to Is.

Adelaide, August 5# ;

Wheat, shipping parcels, 3s 9d tb 8s lOd; farmers’' lots, 3s 5d to 3s 7d. Flour, stone-made, £8 ; roller-made, £9 to £9 ss. Bran, B£d to Pollard, Bd, Melbouene, August 6.

Wheat, prime milling* 3s 10|d. Flour, stone-made, £8 10a; rollermade, £9. Barley, Cape, 2s 3d; Victorian, Y 2s ; 7d ; inferior malting, 3s IBd ; prime, 3s lid. Peas, 3s Bran, 10£d. Pollard, 10|d.

ENGLISH MARKETS.

London, August 2. Bar Silver—4s 3*d per oz. Tallow—Medium beef 24s 6d, ditto mutton 255.

The English wheat market is dull,Continental Unchanged, and American, declining. 1 f New York red winter wheat, 98| cents. For Australian wheat on passage sellers are asking 38s, but buyers are not inclined to give more than 37s 6d. New Zealand wheat, 375. August 4, Wheat, average price at country markets, 35s lOd. i Statistics prove that the wheat cropi is 11,000,000 quarters below that required for consumption. , | ■ Experiments made show that wheat,; grown, in a temperate climate is most free from rust. In discussing the question, i-the Standard advises Aus-. tralian growers to utilise English seed.