Commercial

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 45, 10 November 1904, Page 13

Commercial

For week ending .November 9. PRODUCE. London, No-, ember s—l he strained relations with Russia caused a use of 3d in the European wheat markets, 'llii'ie is a poor demand fot taigoes. The new crop us ollermg at 13/9, December and February shipment. Buyers are holding oh, and there is slow sale Australian, spot, 33/6 to 31/-. Hour is dull owing to heavy supplies Prices • Lon*don, 2(J/- , Glasgow, 27/- to 27/6. CereaN — Oals are dearer. Algerian, on passage, 14/6. New Zealand beans, 29/6. Short-berried wheat 32/0 ; long-berni'd, 33/6. Butter— Slow and poor demand for choicest, the chief inquny being tor secondary, at about 94/- (scarce); Danish, 114/-, Victorian choicest, 100/- to 102/- New South Wales, 98/- to 100/- ( both occasionally 104/-) Queensland, 88/- to 92/- ; South Australian, 92/- to 96/- ; stored New Zealand, about 92/-. Rabibits —Dull, owing to plentiful English supplies. Best Vjctonan and New South Wales, about 6Jd. The quality ot recent arrivals is excellent.

Mr. F, Meenan, King street, Dunedin, reports :— Wholesale prices only— Oats : Milling, 1/6| to l/ 8£ ; feed, 1/2 to 1/6. Wheat : Milling, 6/2 to 3/7 ; fowls, 2/8 to 3/1. Potatoes, £2/10/-, seed, £2/10/- to £3/10/-, chati, £2/10/- to £3/5/-; clover hay, £2/10/to £3 Straw : Pressed wheat, 40/-; oateta,'£2'; loose, £2. Flour : Sacks, £10 ; 1001 b, £10/10/-, 5,01 b £10/15; 25ft, £11. Oatmeal, £9/10/-. Pollard. £4. Bran, £3/5. Butter : Dairy, 8d to lOd ; factory, lid. Cheese : Factory, 4-j'd , dairy, -lid. Eggs, 9^d. Onions : Melbourne, £8.

Invercargill prices current — Wholesale — Butter farm, fid , separator, 8d , butter, factory, pats, ll 3 , d. Eg&s, Sd per doyen. 'Clheesc (factory), (i\)& Hams-, 9d Potatoes, £1/15/- per ton (bags weighed m). Barley, 2/- to 2/6. Chaff, £2/5/- per ton. Flour, £lo/10 to £11/10. Oatmeal, £8/10/ to £f). Bran, £3/15/- Pollard, £5. Retail— Farm butter, 8d ; separator, lOd ; butter, factory), pats, 1/-. Cheese, 6d to 8d Eggs, lOd per do/. Bacon, lid. Hams, lOd Potatoes, 3/- per cwt Flour2001b, 23/- ; 501 b, 6/6. Oatmeal : 501 b., 5/3 , 251 b, 2/9. Pollard, 8/6 per bag. Bran, 4/6. Chaff, 1/6.

Messrs. Donald Reid' and Co. relport as follows •... We held our weekly auction sale of gram and ~>ro duce at our store-, on Monday There was a small attendance vi b'ujers, but ncaily all the lots on offer met with fair competition at prices on a par with late ouctations. V ill lies luled as under :—: — Oats.— Fur piune nulling lines there is practically no inquiry, and nothing like a steady export demand for good qualities. A few oideis ior Hie latter aie being received by local shippeis, and a ic chiefly bem'g filled by Ciartons, although snai row bills are oneiinc, "at lower prices. Medium and interior grades aie not offering treely, and, indeed, local slocks ot all soits are now much minced. We quote : Prime milling, 1/0 to 1/7 ; good to best teed, 1/5 to 1/6 ; medium and inferior, 1/2 to 1/4 per bushel (sacks extra). Wheat — No sale-, of any importance are passing, and as legards milling wheat, the past week has been one ot the quietest. A few lots of mcd inn milling quality have been taw-en up by speculators, and any orders for towl teed have been readily supplied from lots in stores. We quote • Prime milling, 3/fi to 3/f) ; medium to good, 3/3 to 3/5 ; whole fowl wheat, 3/- to 3/1 ; broken and damaged, 2/6 to 2/10 per bushel (sacks extra). Barley.— Prime malting quality is in rather better demand, but other sorts have little attention. We quote : Prime malting, 3/- to 3/4 ; medium to good, 2/3 to 2/9 ; feed and milling, 1/6 to 2/- per bushel (sacks extra). Potatoes — Kreshly-picked Derwents are in good demand, and have ready sale on arrival, but these are not ollermg freely Other sorts, if sound, a r e saleable in small quantities, but for unsound lots there is no demand. We quote : Best Derwents, £2 to £2/5/-; medium to good, 25/- to 35/- ; others, 20/- to 25/- per ton (sacks in) Chaff.— Tße market is more fully supplied, chiefly with chart of medium to good quality. Prime oaten sheaf continues to have most attention, and is saleable at £3/5- to £3/10/-; medium to good, £2/10- to £3 per ton (bags extra). Pressed Straw. —We sold several trucks, oaten and wheaten, at 37/6 to 40/- per ton.

Messrs. Stronach, Morris, and 00. reptsrt :— Uheat and Oats.— The market continues as last quoted, there being little doing and prices are unchanged. Chaff.— A shade easier. Prime oaten sheaf, £3/5/to £3/10/-, the latter 'being hard to secure.