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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2535, 6 May 1881, Page 2

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MELBOURNE -MARKETS. M'Grcgor, Gordon and Co report .lor tlie week ending April 20,1881 ; BrearlstuSs.—Wheat remains firm at 4s 6d and 4s s£, for prime parcels, ex store. We have sold good ex Spencer street at 4s 4£d ; medium at 4s, 4s 2|d to 4s 3d. The Easter holidays have materially interfered with t r ade, and we report little business as having transpired. Flour is.firm. We have sold the best guaranteed country brands at £9 5s to £9 7s 6d net. Feeding Grains.—A steady demand continues for good fee 1 oats at 2s 7d to 2s 8d ; medium at 2s 4d to 2s sd. Tartarian, we sold a yery fine line during the week at 3s Id for seed. Cape and Oregon have sold at 2s 5d and 2s 7d respectively. Maize at 4s 4Jd ; bran at lOfd ; pollard lid. Grass seeds^—Cocksfoot we have sold ex' Ringarooma a fair clean sample at 3fd, and for small parcels we have obtained 4d. By 3-grass is in great demand at 5s to 5s 6d ; white clover, 9d to lOd, We have cleared our entire stock of rye-grass, and there is li tie left in the market, Dairy Produce—Cheese —The demand is improving. We have sold prime at 4Jd ; good, 4d ; medium at 3d, Inferior is unsaleable. Butter, Potted.—A small supply! of new forward, we sold at prices from 6| to Bjd, and at these rates could have sold hundreds of casks ; the demand is very large. Old Potted.—Since last report we cleared 120 casks at to 7d for medium prime. Demand brisk. Butter, Fresh. —We sold our . regular weekly supplies at Is 2d to Is s£d, other dairies according to "uality, realised 9d to Is, supplies to hand are most inadequate, and we look for higher prices. ■' ! Eggs.—We cleared all parcels at Is 5d to Is 6d, prices advancing. Hams, Bacons,.Honey, and Beeswax, are scarce at prices quoted, below.

CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE REPORT. Chbistchuhch, May 6. The following is the report for the week ending Friday, May 6|:— The gram market during the past week has exhibited no new features. Business on the whole has been quiet, and values are unaltered, but the tone of ; the market is firm. The weather has been propitious. The want of rain to which allusion was made last week has been plentifully supplied, and has been of great benefit. Wheat.—Shippers are still in the- market for good lines of sound milling quality of any description, although Tuscan is still the favorite and tops the market; this latter is readily saleable at from 3s 9d to 3s lOd per bushel. "Velvet chaff and pearl, 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; Hunter’s white, 3s 6d to 3s 7d. All these quotations are free on board at Lyttelton. The quotations for Christchurch are from £d to Id under these prices, but as the great bulk of the transactions in wheat during the present season have been for shipment the f.o.b. prices take the pre-eminence. Seconds range between Is 6d and 2s 6d per bushel. Oats. —The increased demand which has been visible for the last few weeks is still well maintained, and the market is firm at last week’s quotations. Bright milling samples are readily saleable at from Is 9d to Is lOd per bushel, holders evincing a disinclination to sell at these figures,’with consumers unwilling to advance the rates; Feed quality (good) Is 7d to Is 9d per bushel. ■ Barley—There is no alteration to note In the value of this cereal, and prices may be said to be quite unaltered. Brewers and malstefs continue to show great indifference, and nothing but very prime quality meets with any attention: from them. Prime malting is saleable at from 2s 9d to 3s 6d per bhshel; second class 2s to 2s 4d per bushel. Grass Seed—The market remains firm at last week’s quotations, viz., 4s 6d to 5a lor well-cleaned farmers’ parcels; bar differently cleaned, according to samjdej.. Potatoes—The decline in values which was observable last week has, jjpt yet been recovered, and prices remain as before, viz,, 32s 6d to 35s at country stations within seven to eight miles of Christchurch. Sacks extra. Cheese and Butter —3d to 3Jd for the former, 7d to 7£d the latter. -- Hay—£2 15s per ton, delivered in ChristIhurch,.