COMMERCIAL.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2584, 2 July 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

CANTERBURY CORN EXCHANGE,

Christchurch, July 1. The following is the report for the week ending Friday July 1. The market during the week is without alteration, and no circumstance has arisen which calls for any comment. Wheat —Recent telegraph advices from England, reporting a rise in price, have imparted a firmer tone to our local market although without a quotable advance. Good sound milling is worth from 3s 8d to 3s lOd per bushel; exceptionally fine parcels of tuscan would command Id to 2d per bushel more. Good seconds are worth from 2s 6d, to 2s 8d per bushel. Chick wheat from Is 6d to 2s 6d per bushel; seed wheats, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel. Oats. —The market is without alteration, but prices are firm at last week’s quotation Tix, good stout milling, 2s Id to 2s 3df.o.b. feed samples, Is 8d to Is 9d per bushel. Barley.—There is still a moderately fair demand for good malting samples, the majority on offer are, however, hardly up to the consumers’ standard; last week’s prices must be repeated. First-class malting from 2s 9d to 3s 6d ; fair to medium, 2s 3d to 2s 6d per bushel ; feed quality Is lOd to 2s Id.

Potatoes. —A good many sales have taken .place during the week, and prices in sympathy with the demand have increased, 33s to 35s per ton at suburban stations being the prices at which business has been done—this for immediate delivery ; for delivery in Augast, 40s to 42s 6d per ton, in all cases sacks extra.

Grass Seed —There is not much to report with regard to this article of produce, and prices are without alteration ; for well cleaned farmers’ lots 4s 6d to 5s per bushel is the quotation ; not much business doing. Cocksfoot, 3|d to 3W per lb. Cheese and butter—Values are unaltered —the former 3d to 3|d, the latter 8d to B£d per lb. Hay— £2 10s to £2 15s per bon, delivered in Christchurch. MELBOURNE MARKETS. M’Gregor, Gordon and Co., report for the week ending June 15, 1881. Breadstuffs —During the week the wheat market has been quiet. Prime milling in hands in limited quantities at 5s 3d ex store, Operations are languid and prices have a tendency downwards. The amended Government statistics, now before us, show an ample supply for our requirements to the end of the year. Flour is at £ll 7a 6d, usual terms, and is dull at this figure. Oats.—The decrease in acreage, in this colony, under oats has caused an active and brisk demand for all descriptions of iced and prime milling, especially for New Zealand. We have sold ex Te Anan, good feed at 3s 5d ; stout, milling at 3s 8d ; inferior milling at 3s 2d, all lots duty paid and delivered. Victorkn feed—we have sold at 3s 3d to 3s 4d.