CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 332, 23 September 1879, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The following is the report of the .Corn Exchange' for the week ending Friday evening, Sept, 19 :— .'';: -".-' Demand and supply in all classes of grain is purely of a local hand to mouth character. Potatoes are moving off more briskly, "orders for intercolonial ports, which have been in hand for some time back, being executed. Wheat.—First-class milling samples arc worth 4s Gd to 4s Bd, medium 4s.to 4s 4d, chick feed 3s 6d to 3s Bd'. ■' " — " Oats.—-First-class feed commands 2s 5d to 2s 7d, parcels fit for seed, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; ; best milling 2s 8d to 25.10 d. Barley. — Prime malting samples will command 6s to 6s 6d per bushel; medium, to good, 4s 6d to 5s Gd ; feed-2s 3d to 3s per bushel. Potatoes.—Values are a shade better, orders which have been in hand, and now being executed, tending to baring the market. Blue Derwents are worth £3 10s to £3 12s per ton ; kidney potatoes for seed £9 to £10. <■ ' ... ■ Grass Seed still continues a drng in the market, and although the. weather has been all that could bo desired for sowing, 'no great move has. taken place. Stocks are large and demands small ; only first-class samples meet with any attention, and these the-'buyers look for at very low iigures. First-class town-dressed samples are worth 5s 3d to 5s 6d per bushel ; farmers cleaned vary from 4s to 5s according to sample. Cheese and Butter.—Good keg butter continues in request, with none in the market ; value, 9d to lOd per lb ; fresh butter is coming in more freely. Cheese has not altered in value, and is saleable at 6d to 6 : .d according to quality.