CORN EXCHANGE.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 589, 7 March 1882, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE.

Kf'pnrt for the weekending Friday evening the 3rd inntnnt :— Tlio wooly opened with a disposition on the p'irtof tonyera to operate at slightly lowerTrafp.s, nud 11 considerable amount of 'business was transacted. Later in the week, however, there was a perceptible decline, with, at tin- , same time, a disinclination on the part of the sellers to accept the reduced figures. It has been ascertained from the thicshing machine necounts thnt the yield is considerably under the estiiri.ito. This may have the effect of maintaining prices, fr nt the tone o'.' the English market, judging from telegraphic quotations has a very depressing tendency. These remarks refer especially to wheat.

Wheat—Hunter's pearl and velvet chaff nre worth from 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel, f.o.b. ; Tuscan, 4s I'd to 4s 4d per bushel T.0.b.; exceptionally fine parcels of Tuscan nre worth from £d to Id ppr bushel more ; sceniid class samples 111113* be quoted at 6d to 9t] per ' iishel under the foregoing quotations; cluck wheat. 2s 9d to 3s 3d per ■bnshel, delivered in Christchnrch. Oats—A good enquiry has been manifest during the week, with few, if nny parcels offering. Prices nominal,

Knrley—There are i'vw, if any,'|rfially pood parcels coming forward, and fontliesi; extreme prices are asked and obtained. The majority of the-samples offprint* , nre iMisiiitflble for malting purposes. Really p/irm; u:,*ilfir g qna'iiy will find buyers at 4s fid per bn-hfl.

Grass Seed—Well-elenned farmers' samples are saleable at ironi 4s Gd to 4s t)d pur bushel; exceptionally clean has reached 5s ; cocksfoot, 3-Jrl to 4-^d.

Cheese-mid Butter—The former is in good demand fit from 4(1 to 4.j-<i ; t lie latter is per tb, with an upward tendency.