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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 322, 19 August 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

FROM. TIIK . LYTTEI.TON. TIMES. " Christchurch, Friday Evening, GU-AIN AND PRODUCE.

We have t f > import a comparatively uneventful" week .in tint grain market. There certainly haa been a little more doing, but the trade generally is not. over buoyant. There is no doubt.Vn.in the lively enquiry for spring wheat to be noted, that a much larger a:va will be put in than was expected by many. The weather being so favorable* for"gfkss peed, sowing lias also. we are gbtd to say, induced a slight improved enq-uy for fee;ls, and from what wo can gather lining down will he carried out to a mncli'greater extent than was ■thought of some little time ago. Wheat.—-Good milling is in excellent demand, and all parcels that are offered are speedily taken up at 4s 3d to 4s 4d. Oats. —Feed quality is quoted at 2s 5d to2s7d ; lniHing, 2s Bd. Parley.—Sales are reported up to Gs for best ; inferior kinds are without much attention. Potatoes. — Considerable parcels have passed from'the growers'hands lately at 60s to 70s. "Flour.—A fair business has been done in this at bust rates, viz. .£lO to £11. Grass Seed.—Owing to the bar biess of the times it was thought that demand for this would he greatly curtailed, and so it has when compared wiih the enquiry for seed experienced at this season in former years. The weather lately having been so extremely favorable for sowing has created a slightly better tone, and although we cannot note a great improvement, still the feeling is not quite so dead. Farmers' well dressed samples arc quoted at 4s Gd to ss. Inferior ranges according to appearance from 3s to 4s. Dairy Produce. —Butter remains at 8d to'Jd : cheese, Gdto 6£d ; hams and bacon, B£d to 9d.