Commercial.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 9, 24 January 1905, Page 1

Commercial.

ASHBURTON MARKETS. 1 Wheat—Millers seem fully supplied ) for the present, and are not buyers. This has a depressing effect on the market, several holders being anxious 1 now to dispose of iheir grain and deliver > before the rush of harvest work is up on ( them. Very little business, however, is being done. A few parcels of extra prime have been sold at quotations, which are, Tuscan 3s sd, Pearl 3s 4d, < Hunter’s 3s 3d. Oats—The market is about bvre of all stocks, and very little will be done now until the new grain is ready for the market. Quotations are nominally, Canadians Is 7d, short feed and Garton’s is 61 to Is 7d, Duns Is 6£d, Danish Is s£dOaosheaf Chaff—The market has «afu.d off considerably, and sales are now difficult to make, £3 being the ruling quotation. CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET. There is still an absence of business doing in wheat, except the sale of odd lots out of merchants’ stocks. Tuscan is in demand, but Pearl and Hunter’s are not enquired for. There is a good demand for oats for shipment North, but none are' offering, and probably little business will bo done until the new crop is placed on the market. Oatsheaf chaff is not meeting with so much enquiry, though small lots are still wanted. Only a limited business has yet been done in ryegrass, and the seed from some of the early cut crops is not very clean sorrel haviug grown more freely than, usual on a3count of the wet season. The following are current prices paid the farmers free of commission, except where otherwise specified :— Wheat—Tuscan 3s 5d to 3s 6d, Pearl 3s 4d, Hunter’s 3s 3d, at country stations. Oats—Heavy Canadians Is 8d to Is 9d, milling Gartons Is 7d to Is Bd, feed Gartons Is 6d to Is 7d, short feed Is 6d to Is 7d, Duns Is 5d to Is 7d, heavy to Is Bd, Danish Is 4d to Is sd, at country stations. Barley, nominal. Ryegrass, good 2s to 2s 3d, inferior to medium Is 6d to Is 9d. Flour (millers’ quotations)—Roller £9 10s per ton. Pollard, £4 16b. Bran, £3 ss. Oatmeal, £lO. O.tslieaf Chaff—£3 to £3 2j 6d, at country stations. Dairy Produce—Cheese, factory, dairy 1d to 4JI; loaf cheese 5d ; butter, factory, local, lO^d; farmers’ separator, B;<i ; dairy, 6d to 7d for prime ; bacon, ; hams, 1.0.b.; eggs, 8d to 9d per dozen.—Press. HOME MARKETS. London, January 19. At the wool sales the clips sold included the Tolramaru at Is and the Moorara at BJd. The sales have been postponed owing to fog. January 20. The wheat market is quiet but steady. There is little inquiry. Cargoes are quoted at 32s 6d for off coast and 32s 9d was asked afloat and for February-March shipment. Flour is unchanged. The Bradford wool market is limited but firm with a hardening tendency; forties, forty-sixes, 17|d ; common sixties, 24d ; super, 25d.