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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 300, 3 June 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

FROM THE LYTTELTON TIMES. Christchurch, Friday Evening. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. A moderate amount of trade can be reported in the grain market during the past week. Most of the business passed under review, however, has been confined to second hands. Wheat.—The better feeling that has marked the market during the last ten days still holds, and parcels of good gram are readily taken up. With us the closing rates for the best quality are quoted at 3s 6d, while average lots command 3s 4d to 3s sd. Oats. —The outside demand for oats being filled almoßt wholly from the South, sales have been purely local. Milling oats are quoted at 2s 7d to 2s Bd, and feed at 2s 5d to 2s 6d. Barley.—Not much has been done m barley during the week. Good malting is from 5s to 5s 3d ; prime lots. Other kinds range from 3s 9d to 4s 9d. Flour.—We have nothing new to note in in this. Prices remain about the same. Potatoes.—The attitude of growers for some time past having been so strongly marked in holding for higher rates, coupled with the recent advance in the Sydney market, has for the moment rather upset matters. Until quotations have fairly settled it is extremely difficult to give values, as prices have just now, owing to to the above stated cause, a more than ordinary range. Grass Seed.—We have nothing to remark about either rye or cocksfoot, the- demand being almost nil. Dairy Produce.—Butter, 10d to lid; cheese, 6d to 6£d. The new cure of bacon is now coming into the market at rates much the same as before.