Commercial. DUNEDIN MARKETS. (By Telegraph.) Dunedin, July 31.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume II, Issue 28, 1 August 1899, Page 2

Commercial. DUNEDIN MARKETS. (By Telegraph.) Dunedin, July 31.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co. report that prices ruled as under at their auction sab to day :— Oats. —We submitted a moderate catalogue of medium to good feed. There was a full attendance uf buyers, and most of the lots on offer met with good competition and were quitted at full market rates. We quote seed lines Is sd' to Is 9d, prime milling Is 4kl to Is s|d, good to best feed Is 34d to la 4d, medium Is 2d to Is 3d, inferior Is per bushel, sacks extra. Wheat. — No prime milling offered. Our catalogue was composed of good whole fowl wheat and a few lots of broken which met with good competition *t prices on par with last week's rates.. We quote prime mjlliug velvet $» 5d to £s 64d, do. Tuscan 2s 4d to

2s 5}A, medium to good milling 2s Id to 2s 4d, whole fowl wheat Is 10c! to 2s, broken and damaged Is 6d to Is 9d per bushel, sacks in. Potatoes. — The market well supplied. Only prime Derwents enquired for. Other sorts almost unsaleable, even at reduced rates. Prime Derwents sold afc 25s to 27s 6d, others 18s to 22s 6d per ton, bagsm. Chaff. — Our catalogue comprised about 30 tons of prime oaten sheaf, which met with good competition. Wo quitted all offering at an advance of 2s 6d per ton on last week's rates. Medium quality is not so saleable. "We quote oaten sheaf .£2 7s 6d to £i 12s Gd, fair to good £Z to £1 ss, medium XI 15s to £2, straw chaff 30s to 33s par ton, sacks c itra.

A trout that turned the scale at 241b was brought up in one of the buckets of a dredge on the Tuapeka. Next. Annual report of the Department of iiabour shows that pnachineiy has affected the bootmaking and glinting trades' most. For the young, the report significantly stages that there is written above the door of the compositor's room, " Ail hope abandon ye who enter here."