GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 515, 21 June 1881, Page 2

GRAIN AND PRODUCE.

Tbe gir.in market dining the week just cloned has pre-ented much the same features as (lie preceding. Values in most lines show no appreciable alteration, and although ii certain amount of buisness can lie noted, yet the lone of the market is quiet. Wheat.—Prices of nil claees remain about the same, with a rather firmer tendency. Hunter's white, 3s Gd to 33 Gid ; and the other kinds range from 3s 7d to 3s 9d. Picked lots command a trifle better rates than ihe above. Oats.—The local feeling is a shade easier and prices aro scarcely so firm ; Is 8d to Is lOd for feed, and Is lid to 2s are quoted for best milling. Recent advices lroin Melbourne report tiie salo of some heavy parcels of Mow Zealand oats in bond the bet ior prices ruling having permitted the -de at a small margin of profit. Unless a more substantial advance takes place pii.e.s will not be influenced much hero. Barley is unchanged, with little or nothing doing. Prices stand at previous weeks rate.. Feed samples are saleable at Is i)d to 2s 2dPotatoes—Sales of potatoes were made at the beginning of the week at 27s Gd to 30s, but later on values have hardened, and quotations now stand at 30s to 32s Gd. Ibis is due to recent advices from the Australian markets. Grass Seed remains unaltered ; ordinary lots, 4s to 4s 3d ; best dressed, 4s Gd to 5s There are few buyers at the moment. Dairy produce is unaltered.