CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 314, 22 July 1879, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Wheat.—Good milling samples commanded from 3s 10d to 4s per bushel, medium quality 3s 8d to 3s 10U, chick wheat 3s to 3s 3d.

Oats. —A good local trade is going on, good feed samples moving off freely at 2s 6d 2s 7d per bushel; milling qualities, 23 Bdto2s9d. Barley.—Good malting and average camples are being readily taken up at remunerative rates, while first-claBS malting readily commands 5s 9d to 6s, and even a slight advance on these rates; medium quality, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; feed sorts, 3s to 4s. Potatoes. —The demand has been fairly suspplied. Last week's quotations are firm at £3 at country stations; bags, 6s 6d. Grass Seed still remains a drug in the mark«t. The great drawback in the purchase of this article of produce is the in■ability of consumers to find the funds. A better demand may shortly be anticipated. Cheese and Butter.—6d and 6£d for the -former; the latter is still in large supply, and difficult to gait at even uniemunerative figures, 8d to 9d being the present value. I JMessrs Bobert Wilkin and Co. report:— Sheepskins : At our usual weekly sale today 3481 skins were catalogued and all sold. There was a full attendance of the trade, with brisk competition. Butchers' ■cross-bred, very large, 4s 6d each; butchers' cross-bred, large, full woolled to 4eeach ; butchers' cross-bred medium, to 3e Id each ; butchers' cross-bred, small and inferior, to 2s each; butchers' merino, medium, to 2a 9d each ; butchers' merino, small and inferior, to 1» lOd each ; country merino to 4s Id each ; country cross-bred, to 3s lOd each ; pelts from 2d to Is 4d each. Tallow : There was the usual attendance of buyers, and the prices were even as follows :—Best, clean, well saved l|d per lb ; second quality l|d per lb ; inferior and heated £• of a penny per lb. Hides unsold.