Commercial.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 521, 12 July 1881, Page 2

Commercial.

(From the Lytteltou Times.)

GRAIN AND PRODUCE,

Business in the grain market during , the week just closed has been fairly active, while the firm tone noted in last week has been fully maintained. Wheat.—Values remain on the basis of last week. Best milling bus been sold at 3s 8d to 3s ltrl, accorHintr to description. Inferior and split Ims been taken at 2s £M to 3h. Oits prrßinit no alteration. milling are snlenble at 2s t<> 2slrl. and feed quality at Is 9.1 to Is lid. The tone or! the market continue!'firm. Barley.—Beyond an enquiry for feed kinds not much harf transpired in this grain. Prices for ivll '-lasses are lrialter^d. Potntof'B.—There has been rnnsiderably more life infused into business in connection with putatoes and sales to a large extent.have transpired. Quotation stand a I 32« 6tl to 35s tor immediate wants. For August delivery, contracts have been mado at £2. Flour.—Millers now quntn ;£lO 10s to £11, according to brand, with a f.-iir enquiry. Grass Seed.—There in nothing stirrins? in either rye grass or cocksfoot, and until the sowing season is closer at hand, not much activity may be expected. Dairy Produce.—Bnttor, 7d to 8d ; cheese, 3d to It is to be regretted that the trial shipment of the latter arti le by the Orari has turned out so unsatisfactorily. In many quarters, howevor, this result was anticipated, owing to the quality in some casei sent, and other circumstances surrounding the venture.