CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2506, 1 April 1881, Page 2

CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE REPORT.

Cheisxchubch, April 1. The following is the report for the week ending Friday evening, April 1, 1881 :

The tenor of the grain market during the past week varies in a slight degree from its predecessors, inasmuch as it has a slightly firmer tone. The want of freight

is still keenly felt by intending exporters, and is very decidedly retarding sales being effected. Recent English telegrams reporting an upward tendency, coupled with the good quality of the grain, and the sound condition in which it has been garnered, has had its effect. If the before-mentioned want (viz. tonnage) supplied, it is probable that the market would assume a yet firmer tone. The long continued spell of dry weather, although advantageous to the farmer in many respects, notably raising the value of feeding grains and root crops, and enabling threshing operations to be proceeded with," is not an unmixed good. The'country is suffering severely from want of rain, and this may yet assume a serious complexion. Wheat. Large 'lines of really good Tuscan will command 3s 8d to 3s 9Jd per bushel; velvet chaff and other hard wheats, 3s 7d; Hunters white,'3s 6d per bushel, f.0.b.; samples where the quality is slightly inferior to the foregoing, 2d to 2sd per bushel under these quotations; chick wheat varies from Is 9d to 2s 9d per bushel, according to quality. enquiry continues ; actrve, and holders seem disinclined to'part lor‘ the money offering. A few' transactions have taken place during-the week fdr good milling at from Is 8d to Is 9d>per, bushel; feed samples/Is 6d to Is 7d per bushel, delivered in Christchurch. • .

Barley.—A good many-.parcels are coming forward, the majority of which are- of ininferior quality. Brewers and. maltsters will not look at this'class, only the better qualities meeting with any:- attention. Really good malting to medium samples may be quoted from -2s 3d to ,3s’ 6d per bushel; exceptionally good malting in very large lines, 3d to-4d, above the highest quotations; feed barley,. Is 6d- to Is lOd per bushel; barley of a quality better than feed, but not a malting sample,. is 'extremely difficult to place, quotations nominal.

Grass Seed—The demand for this article has in no' way abated. Well cleaned farmers’ parcels meet with ready sale .at from 3s 6d to 4s per bushel, indifferently cleaned according to sample. Potatoes ,are beginning to be inquired for. A few in'signi icant sales have taken place during the past week at from 33s to 35s per- ton at country stations within a radius of seven to. eight miles, from Christchur6b,- sacks extra. Accounts from nearly all the potato. ' grbwers reports crops short. Beans and Peas —The former are worth 3s per bushel, the latter 3s to 3s Cd, according to the sorts, Cheese and Butter—There is no change to report in the state of the market for this article of produce, 3d to 3£d for the former, 6£d to 7d for the latter. Hay, £2 10s per ton.