CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 228, 24 September 1878, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The following is the report for the tveek ending Friday evening:— Oats. —There is no alteration to note in values ; the demand is hardly so brisk. Milling samples are worth 4s 2d to 4s 3d ; feed, 3s 10d to 4s. Grass Seed.—Cocksfoot, 7d to 7fd Potatoes.—The market value has again receded, and we cannot quote prime samples at over £4, bags included. Cheese and Butter.—No alteration to note. The land sales on Thursday amounted to 30G7 acres 3 roods as follows :—Ashley, 123; Sehvyn, 250; Akaroa, 1243 a 2r; Ashburton, 1303 3r ; Waimate, 147 a 2r; realising £6135 10s. Messrs R. Wilkin and Co. report:— Wool—We dispose of a few bales and wool at prices ranging from fd to Bj£? P er N- , ' Sheepskins.—Our catalogue ouTii'irsday consisted of 4338 skins, which, with-thX exception of 130, were all sold. Wobave^ o report a drop of nearly Is per skin on ci oss "breds, as compared with hist "week's rates. The price for merino skins is s?lip'htly in advance of last week's rates. There was. a fair attendance of buyers, but acting on telegraphic advices from Hpxpfci the prices were uneven. Bu'sbers , dpss-breds, large, full-woolled, 6s 6d, 6s9d,\and 7s Id each ; ditto medium, to full-woolled, 5s 9d, 6s, to 6s 6d each ; [ditto, medium, two-thirds to three-foftrthi spoiled, 4s lOd, 5s 3d, to 5s 9d each ; dii|flv%iedium, half to two-thirds woolled, 3s 'Bd, 4s 6d to 4s 10d each ; ditto, small and inferior, 2s to 3s 8d each. Butchers' merinos, large and well-wool led, 5s 6d, 6s. to 6s 3d each ; ditto, medium, two-thirds to three-fourths woolled, 4s 9d, 5s 3d, to 5s Gd each ; ditto, medium, half • to two-ihirds woolled, 3s 6d, 4s, to 4s 9d each ; ditto, small and inferior, 2s 3d to 3s 6d each. Country cross-breds, 2s 6d to. 6s Id each;, ditto, merinos 2s to 5s 6d each. Lamb-skins, 7d to Is each. Pelts, 9d to Is 3d each. Tallow.--We catalogued 112 bags butchers' rough fat, and some eaeks and tins taliow, all of which were sold at even rates. Best clean, well saved, 2gd to 2Jcl per lb ; second quality; 2id to 2;d per K> ; inferior and heated, Id to 2;rd p-j! 1!). Hides.—Although we continue to clftst , the hides according to the wish or the trade, they are in poor demand, the only lot sold being damaged, at 2|d per 3b. We attribute the dull state of the l.'i.'iiket to the importation of foreign hides at a much less rate than they can be p"0----eured here.