COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2369, 14 June 1892, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

TOIARU MARKETS. The Canterbury Farmers' Association Limited, report as under : Wheat—The market except for prime samples is practically lifeless, and many holders are now shipping to London in preference to storing. Prime samples of tuscan and velvet are worth 3s 9d ; red chaff, 3s 82-d ; sprouted but dry tuscan and velvet, 2s 9d to os ; red chaff, 2s 7d to 2s lOd ; whole fowl wheat, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; seconds, 2s to 2s 3d.

Oats The market for all sorts is firmer, and good bright Canadians are worth from Is 8d to Is 9d ; sparrow bills, Is o:jd to Is 8d ; seed tartars, Is 7d to Is 9d, duns, Is 6|d to Is 7^(1; danish, Is 5d to Is 7d ; short feed, Is 5d to Is 7d. Barley—Few samples offering. There is a good demand for malting lines at from 2s llil to 3s 3d; inferior and feed, Is 9d to 2h,

Potatoes A few lots are changing hands, but the bulk are being shipped on consignment on growers' account. Present values are —25 s or 20s at country stations.

BSGLISII AND FOREIGN MARKETS. London. June 9. The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the Unite 1 Kingdom ig 2,815,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,364,000 quarters. New Zealand Shipping Company shares are quoted at £3 ; Union Shipping Company of New Zealand, £9 15s, ex dividend.

Three South Australian oft' coast wheatcargoes have been sold at from 34s 'Jd to 34810Jd. The Bank of England returns published to-day show the total reserve in notes and bullion to be £10,462,000, and that the proportion of reserve to liabilities is 46.66, New Zealand four per cent inscribed stock is at 105, and 3| per oont at (15?. Long-berried wheat is quoted at 37s j market flat.

Canterbury lamb, sid. The prices .ruling for hemp are irregular. Fair quality is quoted, afc £2,0. South Australian wheat, 3fs ; flat, Victorian, 30s 9d ; tint. For Australian wheat on passage sellers are asking 34s (id but buyers refuse to give more than 345. For Australian wheat off-coast buyers want 34s 3d, but sellers will not part for less than 34s 9d. June 11. The New >'oa]and Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, have declared a "dividend of 10 per cent, per annjjjn, and the National Mortgage and Agency of Jsfew Zealand 5 per cent. A Lancashire, Derbyshire, and East Coast Railway Company, with ,i capital of £5,000,000, has been established, The Australian Alum Company of NewSouth Wales are starting works at Run= corn, and it is expected that they will make two hundred tons a month,