COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2459, 4 February 1881, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE REPORT. The following is the report for the week ending Friday evening, the 4th inst. : The state of the market is not materially altered during the last week. Farmers are still busy in the harvest field, taking advantage of the truly magnificent weather which prevails for their operations. In some districts a considerable portion of the grain is already carried. A few lines of the new crop have already found their way into the market, but transactions are as 3-et on a very limited scale. There are still a good few parcels of last season’s crop seeking buyers, and for these also the demand is not brisk on account of the scarcity of tonnage to export it. The quotations below refer to last season’s grain, as the business done in the new is not yet sufficiently demonstrated to fix prices, and, on the whole, buyers are reticent.

Wheat.—Good sound milling will find buyers at from 3s 9d to 4s per bushel ; second class milling quality is dull of sale at from 2a'9d to 3s 3d ; chick wheat, Is Gd to 2s 3d per bushel. Oats.—Good short milling are hardly so much sought after, -but sale can be had for them at from Is Gdto Is 7d per bushel, feed samples of good quality are more saleable at from Is 3d to Is 5d per bushel ; inferior feed, Is Id to Is 2d per bushel. Barley.—There is still a small demand for barley of good malting quality, but brewers and mals’ers are as a rule well supplied and are indifferent. Really good malting samples are saleable at from 3s to 3s Gd per bushel ; inferior samples are extremely dull of sale but will meet with buyers at from Is 3d to Is Gd per bushel. Grass Seed.—There are very few parcels of last year’s seed now on offer, but prices, in sympathy with the increased demand for the new crop, have improved. Well cleaned town dressed seed is saleable at from 2s 9d to 3s per bushel. Indifferently cleaned from 2s to 2s 3d per bushel. Dairy Produce. —Cheese is in plentiful supply at from 31d to 4d per lb. Butter is saleable at 6d,with a tolerably brisk demand.