GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 240, 5 November 1878, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

We have no alteration to report in the condition of the market since our last issue. The enquiry has beera exceedingly limited,, and actual sales have been on the most restricted scale. The near approach, too, of the holidays, on the occasion of the races and the .show, also tends to make things quiet, as people are indisposed to initiate pew business, when the whole of next week will be devoted to holiday making. Wheat. —Values remain about the same as last week, viz.. 3s 10d to 4s Id. Oats. —Feeding are selling at 3s lid to 4s.ld ; milling, 4s 2d to 4s 2M.

Potatoes. —Holders continue to press sales, ami do not refuse reasonable offers Prices, under the circumstances, are difficult to quete, but the value may be given as ranging between 40s to 50s. Flour.- -The market just now is stagnant. The demand for home trade is quiet, while the export enquiry is of the lightest. Miiiers quote £9 os to £10, according to brand and size of parcel. For bran and sharps'-tliere is an excellent sale. Oatmeal is almost u-nnoticed.

Grass Seed has been totally neglected. Tailing the rain, many orders intended for re-sowing have been cancelled. Not much sow will be done in seed until the new crop comes :Eto the market. Dairy Produce.—Butter has been in mi:eh better supply, and prices have receded to 9d. Cheese is in fair enquiry at sid to 6d. 'Hams and bacon, in cloth, 7d to"8d. Messrs *W. J. G. Bluett and Co. report on the usual monthly sale at Leeston as follows:—201 head uf cattle, 634 sheep, 41 pigs -were the totals yarded. Our entries comprised 190 head of cattle, 611 sheep, and 41 pigs. There was a large attendance-of buyers, and fat cattle showed a marked improvement on last month's quotations.'.'••■Wo sold fat steers, £12 5s to £12 10s ; fat cows, from £11 7s Gd, £12, to £15 7s 6d ; springers, from £8 to £10 10s : storoy, £5 2s 6d, £6, to £7 10s ; yearlings, £<ito £415s ; calves, £2 12s 6d. In diecp •.Vβ- cold ewes with lambs,'Bs to 9s Gd ; cross-bred hoggetts, 12s to 14s. Pigs, s~ v 12s, 10:3. : 0 d, to 235. At the Canterbury Sa!e- varus on Wednesday last we sold fat eittie at from £10, £11, £12 7s Gd, £12 lOs. to £18 I-)* ; cross-bred hoggetts 14s to 16s.

Messrs S.i VVilkin and Co. report Oct. 31 :—Wool is now corning in freely, and already aboui 100 bales are to hand for opc*rii:\£T s:ile. On Thursday a few bags mixed woolv/ere sold from 6d to B|d per lb. Sheepskins.—At our sale on Thursday 2763 skins and pelts were catalogued, and all sold. There wis a full attendance of buyers, and biddings were spirited. Prices ranged—for butchers' cross-bred, from 2s to Ss 4c! each ; butchers' merino, 2s to Os 6d each. Tallow.—Butchers 7 rough fat, 1-Jd to 2Jd per 11); hides, 2§d to Bid per lb ; calfskins, 4d per lb.