CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 437, 28 September 1880, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

The following is from the report for the week onding Friday evening, Sept. 24:—

Business during tbe week has been of a most unimportant character. The principal business doing is grain passing into local consumption. Potatotes. —The market for this tuber has experienced a very decided fall. Considerable quantities are offering with but an indifferent demand. Sales have taken place during the week at 10s to 20s per ton, sacks extra. It is difficult to quote the extra value, as the exigences of the case frequently inllu*ne6 the price. In all capes sacks extra. Cheese and Butter.—There in no change t. report on tho state of* the market for these articles of prodirce. The former is in fair supply at. from 4d to 4Ad. The latter is abundant, ami is hardly saleable. Grasa Seed.—A better inquiry has been .njipnrent during tbe week, but prices are not sensibly affected. Good, heavy, well cleaned samples will f.-tch from 2s 9J to 3-?. Farmers' parcels, badly dressed, vary from l-> 9d to 2s Gd per bushel. _ Cocks-foot.-Good, heavy seed is fetching 2£d

Co 3d per H> in small lines. Large nutsa a shade under the quotations. ll.iv.—sos lo 55s per ton, delivered in Christchurch.