CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 435, 21 September 1880, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The fpllowing is from tho report for the week ending Friday Sept. 17:— Nothing has occurred during the week which calls for any comment. Vnluee are ;mclmnged in all classes of produce. The weather continues favorable, and crops in most parts of the country are looking , well. The light lands aro feeling tho want of nin. although as yet not seriously. Last week's report with respect to tho rain-fall registered at tho meteorological station, C'm-istchurcb, should have boon 574 inches holow tho general average rainfall from Jan 1. to the end of Augnat, in place of ■' th' 3 rain-fail regis-tered at the meteorological station from -Jan. 1 to tho end of •ast'inonth was 5.74 inches," as reported. Potatoes.—A few sales havo taken pi act' during the week at prices between 1.7u and 20s per ton, and there are rumours of some large lines having been quitted at less money. Tho dry weather in Sydney will doubtless havo an effect on prices, and enable holders to quit their stocks. U-i.hs Seed.—Good clean samples aro selling at from 2s 9d to 3a. Farmers' par. el) imliJlereritly cleaned. Is 9d to 2* 3d per bushel. Cocksfoot, 2fd to 3-{-d per lb. Ui.'KHO and Butter.—The former is in :mv japply at from 4d to <U-il. The latter .hvr'i v : no business doing ; prices noa-inal. i't;,^.—sos to 55s per ton delivered in ■Jfyrh^ehurch.