CORN EXCHANGE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1714, 18 November 1887, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE.

The following is the Corn Exchange »«• port for the week ending Friday, the 18th, met. : —

After the oarnlval week business hat again settled down m its old groove, there being plenty of settlers of both wheat And. oats, but buyers decline doing brjstneaf unless for absolute orders to hand. Freights to London continue firm 10 that there are cot such large shipments ai were anticipated. The showery weather hai been all that could be desired for the pastures and the dry land crops but m places on the heavy low lying laudi, the opposite has been the result. Wheat. — Farmers ate now anxlom to quit their remaining •took, but merchants a 1 re very chary about daaUngi except at reduced rates, consequently bnslneßH foe the time being ia of a very limited cha*ap«. ter, Hunter's has been quitted In amt.lt parcels at 3s 2d to 3i 3J, and Tascan and Pearl at 3s 4d. Second quality ia taken chiefly for chicken wheat at Bs, broken Is quiet at 2a 8i to 2s 03. Oats.— Wo have bat few salw to note. Milling are not m large 6took, bat milera are fairly well stocked,, and there Is no outßlde demand. We quote 1b lOd, nominally, short foed, and changing handi m email lots at la 8i to la B|d, and long feed is dull at Is 7d, Bari/Ey. — No malting samples offering. Seed demand passed. Beans.— Very little enquiry j worth 3« Id to 3i 2d. Pba^ — Prussian blues, fit for aoed, 3s 6d ; feed kinds, 3s. Grass Sees.— But little business |s expected until autumn. Owners are now holding their stocks over. An occasional orders comes from the South for cooksfoot whioh is worth 4j- foe heavy bright ooed inferior is unsaleable. POTATOB3.— SmaII brdera continue tt I con?e to hand ? aud are easily supplied fttj 13s to 15s at country sfcatjong, *'" llp Dairy Propuob. — No better market as yet presents itself. Several of tht factories are arranging for shipment! to London, which ought to have the effaefc of easing the markets. At present ' ther? are no quotable values, ' The above prloeß are those paid (4 farnaora and delivered f.o.b. Lyttelton*