CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 226, 17 September 1878, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The following is the report for the week ending Friday evening :— Oats.—The demand has very sensibly diminished, and the market weakening for seed purposes, there is little or no inquiry. Feed are wortli 3s lOclto 4s ; seed, milling, 4s 2d to 4s 4d. Grass ISeed of all descriptions must increase in value, consequent on the large tracks of land being broken up for laying down to permanent pasture. Prime samples cocksfoot, 7d to 7|d. Potaioes. —First-class samples, fit for shipment, are worth £4 (if guaranteed), bags extra ; second quality, £3 15s. Cheese and Butter.—No alteration to note. Any prime coming forward would meet with a ready sale, outside markets being hare. Cheese is still dull of sale, with little tendency to operate. At present values, good brands coming forward would realise s^d. Messrs J. T. Ford and Co. report on the live stock market for the week ending Thursday, Sept. 12, as follows : —Only 4000 sheep and 170 head of cattle were sent forward for last Wednesday at Addington, but even that short supply was more than was required, and biddings throughout the sheep and cattle sales were anything but spirited. Nice heifers are worth 35s per 1001 bs, and mutton from 3d to per lb. with an upward tendency. The late rains will have the efiect o± freshening our pastures, and .store stock of all description will be in demand. Our entries for the day comprised 2200 sheep, and 54 head, of cattle. We topped the market at 20s each of heavy weights and excellent quality. Others brought 17s each. The merino c iv es from Racecourse Hill were tip top quality, and brought 12s each. On Tuesday we held a clearing auction on account of Mr W. B. Tosswill, at Courtenay. The weather was most unpropitious throughout the day. However, the attendance was pretty good and fair prices obtained. Horses brought from £30 to £40 each ; milch cows from £8 upwards; and farm implements sold at fair values.

Messrs R. Wilkin and Co. report:— Wool.—A few lots catalogued and sold at from sjd to Bfd per lb. Sheepskins.— Our catalogue on Thursday consisted of 123 lots, numbering 5264 skins, and with the exception of-134, they were all sold. There was a large attendance of bikers, combined with spirited bidding. The following is the result: —Butchers' crossbred, large, full-woolied, 7s to 7s 9d and 8s each ; do do medium, three-fourths to full-wool led, 6s 2d, 6s 6d to 7s each ; do do do, two-thirds to three-fourths woolied 5s 6d to 6s 2d each ; do do do, half to two-thirds woolied, 4s, 4s 8d to 5s 6d each ; do do, small and -inferior, 2s 3d, 3s 4d to 4s each. Butchers' merinos, large, full-woolled, 5s 5d to 6s each; do do medium, three-fourths to full-woolled, 4s lOd to 5s 5d each ; do do do, two-thirds to three-fourths woolied, 4s to 4s lOd each ; do do do, half to two-thirds woolied, 3s Id to 4s each ; do do, Email and inferior, 2s, 2s 6d to 3s Id each. Country cross-breds 2s Bd, 4s 6d to 5s lOd each ; do merinos, 2s 6d, 4s and 5s Gel each. Pelts, sd, 9d, and ls 3d each. Lambskins, the first of .the season, 6d each. Tallow.—Owing to the wet state of the weather for the past week, the supply was limited. There was a full attendance of the tiade, and prices were even. Best clean, well saved, 2fd to 2|d per Ib ; second quality, 2|d to 2|d per lb ; inferior and badly saved, 2|d to 2|d per lb. Hides.—At the request of a deputation of the hide buyers we classed the hides into five lots, but as the trade was sparsely represented, only two lots were sold. Lot 4—damaged, 2§d per lb, I and lot s—calf, 5d per lb.