COMMERCIAL.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 142, 13 October 1880, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Cn Risfcirv'ncir. The following is the Christ church Com Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, Sth October, ISSt) : There is absolutely no change to report in the state of the market during the week. Business is very dull. The transactions taking place are purely of a local character, or what might be termed a hand to mouth business. Freight is dillicult to obtain. .Millers are still in the market for wheat but hardly so eager. The weather is all that could be desired, anel the crops in all parts of the country are looking well. At present there is every prospect of an abundant harvest. Wheal. —Good milling samples are worth from 4s to 4s 3d per bushel. Exceptionally tine quality of certain descriptions a shade over these ligiires. Second class milling, :3s Sd to-Ss 'Jd ; chick wheat, 2s to os per bushel. Oats. The business done during the week' has been of a most unimportant character. Good, stout, shori milting are saleable at from Is (jd to Lsfcklper bushel; feed quality. Is 3d to Is Jd ; inferior feed, Is to Js 2d per bushel. Barley. — the market for this cereal is rather s.ugg di. Malsters and brewers are tolerably well suppli -d, and nothing but exceptionally fine qua'i'y will tempt them, anel that too at a moderate price. Fair malting quality may be quoted at from 2s 3d to 2s (Jd per bushel; extra prime. 2s Sd to 3s (>d ; feed samples, Is »>d to Is yd per bushel. Grass Sued. —The demand is hardly so good. A few transactions have taken ph.ee at from 2s 6d to 2s 10d per bushel; these have been farmers' parcels, but of exceptionally good quality. Town-dressed heavy seed is worth 2s ].()el to 3s per bushel; light and ba Uy cle.ine.l 5 Is Od'to 2s 3el; cocksfoot, 2jd to ;jel per lb, in small lines. Potatoes.—A few trifling orders have been executed during the week at about, lf-s the ton. Sales have taken place at less than this figure. It is hardly likely however, that growers will accept less, as the cost of labor, carting. &e., would not warrant it. The same prices may be quoted at last week —3.5 s to 20s per ton, sacks extra. Cheese and Butter. —The former, 4d to 4-|d; the latter, 7kl to Bd. Welunotox. L?nry and Campbell report that potatoes in parcels ar.i quite unsaleable, and so are onions : o.its 2s to 2s 3d, chick wheat 2s maize 3s to 3s Gel, flour £ll.j oatinoal £l2. bra l 7id to Bel. pollard sd.' fresh butter 4Jd to Old, eggs lOidtolld/ -cheese 4d to sd, fowls 4s od. >,