CORN EXCHANGE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1540, 23 April 1887, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE

Tho following is the Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, April 22: — A fair amount of businesg has been transacted daring the week, and the market generally may be aaid to have oloeod firm. Shipping is being oarried on briskly both to London aad intercolonial maikeiß. The non arrival of the Sir , Robert Sale hns greatly inconvenienced the potato lifting. Wheat.— All parcels m good condition on offer ar<j qalokly tasen up at last week's quotations Tasoan, 3s 5Jd to 33 6 1; Pearl and Hunter's are also wanted at 3s 4|d to 3? s&d. Second quality and " ohickwheafc is m good demand at laat week's rates. , Oats.— Business is this cereal has baan rather dall for the past week, on account \ of the orders going to the Bluff, where, '. at the present, buyers are more leniently dealt with. Prices, however, are un- ' altered, at Is 9d for short faed, and Is 7d * to la 8i for the long and inferior grades, r Barley,— The firm tone previously f noted continues, and anytbiog n't for malting is quickly taken up. Choice lota ' are ia dtmund at 3) 6d to 3i 8d and 1 good, sontid malting lines onmmand 3s 5 2d to 3s 4d, and medium at 2a 101 to 3j. i Feed is worth 2a 41. i Bea*s have "been largely putohased at } 2i 10d to 3a, and peas have had better ; attention for ohoioe Prussian blues t.ue to name, at 3« 3d to 3i 4d. Feed eorss are ' dull at 24 9i to 2i lOd. (-RAB3 Seed has been doll, the season being considered over. Farmers' parcels are nominal at 2s 3d to 3?, and machine dressed is quiet at 3s 6d to 3a Od. Oooka* foot has been m betler request at 3jd I to3£i. Potatoes, — A good many sales have ' been made at 27s 6i to 28s at country 1 stations, and the market may be con- - sidered firm 5 Dairy Produce. — l&o ohanges can be - noted m values of this prodooe, and latt . week's quotations are unaltered. f The above quotations are those paid „ to farmers, and delivered f.o.b. Lyttelton, ' sacks extra. : i L •