CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 290, 29 April 1879, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Tho following is the report of the Corn Exchange for the week ending Friday evening, April 25 :— Business during the week ha 6 been of a most unimportant character. There is little or no alteration to note in values. Buyers of all classes of produce seem most unwilling to operate. Wheat. — Pest milling samples still range at from 3s 4d to 3s 5d per bushel; inferior to medium, 2s lOd to 3b 2d. Oats. —The market continues steady at last week'B quotations. Best milling qualities are worth. 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; teed samples, 2b 6d to 2s 8d per bushel. —First-class malting quality will

second-class malting ranging from 3a 6d to ss. Potatoes.—Prices appear Btill to remain a rather vexed question. Buyers and sellers being as yet ..at variance with regard to values. Prices range from £2 17s 6d to £3 5s per ton, sacks extra, at the Styx and Papanui Railway Stations, and the same at other stations at a similar distance from Port. Grass Seed is completely neglected, and sales aro difficult to effect even at ruinous prices to the producer. First-class quality can be purchased at 5s to 5s 6d, while inferior to medium are almost unsaleable. Cheese and Butter, to 6£d for the former ; 10£ dto lid for the latter. • Messrs Wilkin and Co. report:—Sheep-skins^-At our sale on Thursday 2913 skins were catalogued,* and all sold. There was a fair attendance of buyers, and the prices were firm, as follow :—Cross-bred, large, 2s 3d to 2s lOd each ; medium, is lOd to 2s 3d each ; fcmall and inferior, is |to Is lOd ; merino, large, 3s to 4s each;. medium, 2s 2d to 3s each ; small and inferior, Is 3d to 2s 2d each ; lambskins,.ls 6d to 2s 8d each ; pelts, Id to Is each. Tallow.—A fair quantity was catalogued with .a fair attendance of buyers, and prices firm and even. Best clean, well lsd to 2|d per lb ; second quality, lfd to lfd per lb ; inferior and heated, l_-d to lfd per lb. Hides.—-Salted, Sjvi per lb.; damaged, 2£d per lb; calfskins, 4d per lb; cut and damaged, half price.