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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 350, 25 November 1879, Page 2

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/ FROM THE LYOTEKTON TIMES. Christchurch, Friday Evening. : GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Since-the holidays business in the grain •market has been remarkably quiet. The only feature calling for special comment ie the reimposition of the dutyjupon grain, the collection of which takes effect from the 18th inst. , Wheat. —A few sales are reported, but what little hae been doing has passed ■through merchants' hands. Quotations remain about the same level, viz., 4s 10d to ss. Some lots df chickwheat have been sold during the week at 3s 6d to 4s. Oats shew no alteration, and sales have been confined to small trade parcels. Prices are 2s to 2s Id for feed, and 2s 2d to 2s 4d for milling. Barley is unaltered. Potatoes. —A few trifling sales for table use of old are recorded, at £5 to £5 10s. New grown, from the north, are being •offered freely at auction. Grass Seed has been sold in small linee during the week at 4s to 4s 3d. As the new seed harvest is so close to hand buyers are not eager purchasers. Dairy Produce.—Butter, 7d to 8d ; cheese, s§d to 6d ; hams and bacon, 9£d to 10d.