W. J. Hurst and Co. Report.—Business during the woek has been of a limited character. A fow parcels of wheat have changed hands at from 3s 7d to 4s per bushel, sacks extra according to sample. Oats: A great quantity of interior samples have been offered. Business has been done at from Iβ 6d to Is sacks in cluded. Potatoes Market glutted, £2 to £2 15s being about the price paid to farmers, who naturally feel .dissatisfied. We fear prices will rule low throughout the season. Maize : Parcels have passed hands afc from 2a 9d to 3s 10d in lines on wharf. Chaff: Too much damaged being offered, which keeps prices down ; from £2 to £2 15s is what business has been done at. Grass seeds and clovers, till the spring inquiry starts, are almost nominal; we have heard of several lines -boing offered at co3t and loss to clear. Quotations for Southern produce, free on board, sacks included :—Milling wheat, from 4s 5d to 4s 9d ; seed, from 4s 9d to ss; fowl wheat, 3e 5d fco 3s 8d Oats: Short feed (eparrowbills), Iβ 7Ad to Is 8kl; short feed (Canadian), Is 9Ad to Is "lid; Dun'a peed, Is lOid to Is lid; black seed, Is 10W to Is lid. Tartareus seed, Is Hd to Is Hid. Barley : malting, Zβ to 3s 3d ; feed. 2s 2d to 2s 4d Potatoes : Derwent table, i.Z /s Od (Oamaru); Derwent table, £2 to £2 2s 6d Christchurch); kidneys, £2 5s to £2 10s. Wheat is very firm. Oats also have a har dening tendency. In regard to potatoes the Now Zealand markots are thoroughly demoralised.
The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1891.
