GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 196, 4 June 1878, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Potatoes remain about the same as last week's quotations of 45s to 47s 6d. Flour. —£11 to £12 is asked according to brand. Oatmeal is in better demand at £20.

Grass Seed.—There is absolutely nothing doing in seeds. Sellers must accept buyers' rates, or hold until the spring demand.

Dairy Produce. —The market for really good butter exhibits a better feeling, and uiales of tills description have been made freely at*9d f.0.'0. Cheese is unaltered. liarns ami bacon, factory cured, are quoted at 7i to Sd; farmers' lots, 5d to 6d. CORN EXCHANGE REPORT. The following is the report for the week ending Friday evening, May 31. :— Oats.—The supply is equal to the local demand. Rates are scarcely so firm. For retail purposes small parcels are saleable at 3s 7d to 3s 9d per bushel. At the present quotation export orders cannot be executed. Cocksfoot is in better request, and is saleable at Gd to 6|d per lb. Potatoes. —Sellers are not so anxious to do business. The recent advices from the import markets are not so good. This may be accounted for by the unexpected arrivals in Canterbury, and the low rates ruling up to late dates in the Victorian export markets. By the statistics just published in Victoria the estimated yield of potatoes is in round numbers 20,000 tons short of the last year's production. Taking this into consideration, it is not likely rates can give way here. On the othei hand if higher rates rule consumption will be materially checked. The market is very firm at 4os to 47s 6d per ton with a bare supply. Slightly advanced rates are freely offered for later delivery.

Cheese and butter. —There is a better demand for both cheese and butter. Prime potted butter is saleable at 8d to 9d per lb. Cheese from ssd to 6d per lb.