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Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 670, 23 June 1882, Page 2

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Ashburton Guardian Office, *• Friday Afternoon. ‘There is nothing very stirring to note ill the market during the week, and only a small business has been doing. Prices remain firm, however, and we hear of only, one large lino of wheat having changed hands for shipment at sa. This seoiple was very prime. For ordinary samples, about 4s 6d to 4s 9d can be obtained; The Australian markets are still bare, and good prices are being realised, but' according to some shippers from Canterbury they have not made so much profit as telegraphic advices led them to expect. There is still a good demand in Sydney and Melbourne for wheat, as millers’ stocks there appear to be nil. A shipment by next mail steamer of 600 tons of Californian wheat is on the way for the former port, to be followed by two sailing vessels loaded with the same cereal. Oats are moving off in small quantities, but prices do not show any advance. Higher prices may not now be looked forward to, as stocks are still heavy. Prime samples of barley are enquired after for malting purposes, and from 4s 4d to 4s 6d can bo readily obtained ; ordinary and inferior samples aro quoted at from 3s 41 to 3s 6J. Potatoes have been delivered pretty freely in the northern districts, and prices are much firmer for the tubers. The weather has been particularly fine during the week, and farming operations have been eagerly carried on. The soil is turning up in splendid condition after the late rains, and the early crops are coming up well. Messrs J. T. Ford and Co. report as follows: —On Tuesday,' at Ashburton, we sold, on account of Messrs Lancaster, Miller, Wix, Smith, Tasker, D. Wilson, Cole, Crow, and others, upwards of 2,000 sheep and several head of cattle, at prices nearly equal to Christchurch, effecting a clearance of all our entiles for the day. Cora Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 23rd instant : —The state of the market this week is precisely similar to the preceding, business exceedingly quiet, with but little alteration in values. —Wheat: The market is slightly easier. Good sound milling is worth 4s lod to 5s per bushel, f.0.b.; second quality, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; chickwheat, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel; seed wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 6d per bushel.—Oats : There is no alteration to'note in the state of the market. Milling sorts, 3s 3d to 33 4d per bushel; feed, 3s id to 3s 2d per bushel; seed samples, 3s qd to 33 lod per bushel.—Barley : prime malting quality, 4s fid to 4s yd per bushel; second class malting, 3s gd to 453 d per bushel; feed, 3s 3d to 3s fid per bushel.—Potatoes : Little no business has been transacted during the week, and in the absence of actual sales it is difficult to give reliable quotations; approximate, 35s to 37s fid, at country stations. —Grass Seed : No business doing at present. —Cheese and Butter: 6}4 per lb for the former; is id for the latter