CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 170, 25 February 1902, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET.

Our London correspondent, writing on January 10th, says For MewZoida- d wheat Messrs U ;vdcl and Company report that although stocks are in small co spans there ia very little enquiry, and prices are nominally unchanged. Farmers are not marketing their English wheat Pot all freely as present prices do not tempt them; llie average trice of last Avek cl 27s (id per Impel iai quarter marked an advance of 6d p<r quaiitr ; 1-op.i the pievious fortnight, acd wan i Is 2d nor quarter higher than at the same | lime last year. Supplies of Now Zsalutv.i | oats arc very limited, and with a g> c I demand sellers hold for higher rate-. Messrs Wedilel and Company quote ; Good Canterbury Canadians 27a to 28.-, ordinary I’dull' and Sparroubdls 2oi to 25s per 33-llb, Duns 2ls to 22s per 311511;, and Danish 2is per 3201 b. For Eevr Zealand beans the demand is again more active, and 6d to la per qr. mure money is asked, the quotation now heii g 33a 61 to Sss 3d for ordinary quality, per oOllh. Tire Paparoa has arrived from Fimam with a small cargo of wheat and aoed 1 ThtTe is a good local enqury for wheat but h> Idem of last year’* crop are n< t anxious to «ell, and growers are generally asking 53 ut country aiationa for Tnsw

wheat. The highest price so far reported as having been paid is 2* 10d at a country station for a line of new wheat. Oats are still selling freely, both for shipment and for export to South Africa. Amona the sales that bare taken place during the week are 5000 bushels three parts of which were short teed, at “2s Ijd in sucks, and severals line® at 2s and 2s Ojd, iu centals, at country stations. J The breakdown of the Agapanthug will delay the shipment id tj ra fj rst cargQ ()f nsvr oats for South Africa, and no arrangements have yet been made as to whether another vessel will take her place, or whether she w’ll be sent on after repairs are affected a'b Adelaide. A fair amount of business is still being done in prime maltin'* barley, but secondary duality is dull ol sale. There is very little cocksfoot cornin'* forward. ° The following are current prices paid to farmers, f.0.b., Lyttelton, and free o£ except \vh< rs otherwise •vperiirieii:— Wiiost—Old Hunter's pearl, and Tuscan. 2s lid to IL, f.o.b. ; new 2s 9d to 2s lOd at country stations Old oats (nominal) 2s 4d to 2s d-'d f.o b. ; new' oa s—long Js’ Ud to W r-hort feed from 2s to 2s 2d country lyii ley (new) .’stoSs 3d, at country stations. J Beans— 2s 8.1 to 2s 9d. f.o.b. Peas —Partridge, 2.- 9.1 ; iiiua Prussians--3h 3u. at country .stakms. iffuiir (in flora 1 quotations) Holler X. 'i ■ piil! .rd—£4 5s per tun. Bran- -£’s Jos. i O.rrjjr.a! TJS. Potatoes- Beauty of Hebron 355, Onions - £-1, at country si at ions. Oat.rhi-.af oh,nil—-17s'(id to 50s uicaantry Ht-atloPß. J Hay £2 jO.s to £2 los delivered. Grass Reed IB egrass, primo he«vy, iow-1 dressed, os 3d to 4s 6d ; rvo«ras« BBian, u/vrn dro-sd, H 6d . od. cowgrass 6d to U3d, catra choice 7d, wlnie clover fed to S ~ delivpied Baity Pronnoe—Oh«.,se, factory, 3L! .0-,d dairy Tl ; butter, fac-orv 10e,.] 110, Aorth Island Kid, dai-y Od ’to 9d| salt (in boxes' So ; bacon, h-.r;issd if 6M fac.my bcico, -an I hams i d higher, f.o b - I'rose.