SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 51, 21 December 1899, Page 13

SOUTHLAND PRODUCE MARKET.

Invercargill prices current:— Wholesale: Butter, fresh, 5d ; eggs, lOd perdoz ; cheese, farm, 3Jd ; bacon, farm, 7d ; do (rolled), farm, 6d ; hams, 8d ; potatoes, LI 10s per ton ; barley, 2s to 2s 6d ; fowl wheat, 2s ; chaff, L 2 10s per ton ; flour, L 8 ; oatmeal, L 9 to LlO ; pollard, L 3 ; bran, L 2 10s, including bags. Retail — Fresh butter, 7d; eggs, Is per doz ; cheese, 6d ; bacon, rolled, Bd, sliced, 9d; hams, lOd ; potatoes, 2s per cwt ; flour, 2001 b, 15s ; 501 b, 4s 3d ; oatmeal, 501 b, ss ; 251 b, 2s 9d ; pollard, 5s 9d per bag ; bran, 3s 6d per bag ; chaff, L 3 per ton ; fowls' feed, 2s 3d per bushel.

Mr. F. Meenan, King street, reports : — Wholesale price only — Oats : Good demand. Feeding, Is 8d to Is 9d ; milling, Is lOd. Wheat : milling, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; fowls* wheat, 2s 2d to 2s sd. Hay : ryegrass and clover, best, L 3 os. Straw : pressed, 22s ; loose, 28s. Bran,; L 3. Pollard : L 3 ss. Flour : L 6 10s to L 7. Butter : best brands factory, lOd to lid; dairy, 6d to Bd. Oatmeal: LlO. Potatoes : well picked, good sample, 20s ; old stock from Is per bag. Chaff : much easier demand ; L2ssto L 2 15s. New potatoes, ss, Auckland ; local, Bs. °

Messrs. Sbronach Bros, and Morris report as follows :—: —

Wheat — No business doing and market very dull. Prime milling 2s 6d to 2* 7d ; medium, 2s 5d ; fowl wheat, 2s to 2j 3d per bushel (sacks in).

Oats— Market very firm and prices advanced Id per bushel Milling, 2s; Good to best feed, Is lOd to Is lid ; medium, Is 8d to Is 9d per bushel (sacks extra). Chaff — Prime chaff is in good demand, but medium quality is dull of sale. Prime oaten sheaf, L 2 10s to L 2 13s ; medium to eooi. L 2 to L 2 7s 6d per ton (bags extra). Potatoes— Derwents unsaleable.

Messrs. Donald Reid and Co. report as follows :—: —

Oats— We catalogued a quantity of medium to good feed. The attendance of buyers was limited, and only a few lots reached our valuations. There is keen demand from shippers for all classes of oats in sound condition. We quote : Prime milling, 2s ; good to best feed, Is lOd to Is lid ; medium and discoloured. Is 8d to Is 9d per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat — The market for milling quality continues dull. Fowl wheat is in fair demand at 2a 2d to 2s 3d for good whole wheat ; Is 9d to 2s per bushel (sacks in) for broken and damaged. Potatoes— We offered a few lots of Derwents, which met with no demand and are unsaleable.

Chaff — Our catalogue contained only medium quality, for which the demand was weak. Prime quality is offering sparingly, and is readily quitted on arrival. We quote : Good to prime eaten sheaf, L 2 10a to L 2 1-s* ; medium to good, L2toL2 7s 6d per ton (bags extra).

A Taranaki butter factory has sold all its output this 8?a«m at 1 1 per lb, f .o.b. on trucks.

The Agent-General cables : — 'Butter, 105s ; market good. No alteration cheese market since last week.'

London, December 15. — The cold weather is hardening the European wheat markets, while stringently but only slightly depressing American.

The cold weather is stimulating the butter market. There js good demand for choicest colonial at 104s to 106s. Danish is unchanged.

There is good enquiry for New Zealand cheese. Canadian is strong at si)s to 60s.

Napier, December 14 — Messrs. Nelson and Co. have received the following cable from the CO. and D. Co., London :: — * Frozen meat market quotations : Best Canterbury, 3£d ; Dunedin and Southland, 3d ; Napier and North Island, 2Jd. Lamb : , First quality, 4^d ; seoond, 3f d.'

London, December 17. — Frozen mutton : Crossbred wethers and

maiden ewes— Canterbury, unchanged ; Dunedin and Southland, unchanged ; North Island, 2£d. Lamb : Prime Canterbury, 4£d ; Tfair average (including Dunedin, Southland, Wellington, and secondary Canterbury), 4d ; River Plate, unchanged. Rabbits— Colonial (firm), 9J. Hare 9 (very scaree \ 2s 9d, Continental supplies having failed, At the kauri gum sales 4053 cases were offered, and 1400 were sold. Three-quarter scraped advanced 23 6d, other descriptions remaining unchanged. The stock is 1632 cases.