CORN EXCHANGE REPORT. WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 399, 1 June 1880, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

WOOL, SHEEPSKINS, HIDES AND TALLOW REPORT.

The following is the report for the week ending Friday evening. May 28, 1880 :— The condition-of the market for the past week is precisely what it has been for some time past. There is no improvement to note. The market for all classes of grain is extremely heavy. Supply is in excess of the demand in nearly all kinds of produce. Good -muling wheat and short oats will find a market but at very low figures. The most reasonable advices from Home are not more reassuring than formerly. Hence buyers are chary. Potatoes are moving slowly. Sales are taking place at 25s to 26s per ton at stations within a few miles of Christchurch, Backs extra. Grass Seed.—There is no change to note in the value of this article of produce ; tho demand is very limited, while the supply is abundant. The quality, however, as a rule, is very indifferent, and at best times would be difficult to place. Good heavy seed, well cleaned, is worth 2s Gd to 2s 10d per bushel. Cheese and Butter.—4d to 4id for the former, and 8W to 9d for the latter.

Messrs H. Mutsoii and Co. report as follows :—On Thursday a* our Canterbury Wool Stores, we held our usual weekly sale of the above. There was a very limited attendance of the trade, caused, no doubt, by the difficulty experienced in drying wool, the price of sheepskins, in consequence, suffering slightly. Oui catalogue comprised 2114 sheepskins, 145 bags rough fat, and 404 hides and calfskins, every line offered being cleared at the following quotations, via : —Butchers' best cross-bred skins made 4s 4d, 4s Bd, to 4s lid ; second quality, 3s -id, 4s to 4s 3d ; medium. 2s each. Butchers' best merino skins made 3s 3d, to 3s 8d ; second quality, 2s 3d, to 3s Id ; medium , Is 4d, to 2s 2d each. Butchers' beat rough fat, 2|d to 2§d per lb ; second quality, 2d to i?£d ; inferior, l|d to l£d per lb. Hides all round, 3.ki per lb. Calfskins, 3-! d per lb. Tallow, none on effer.