CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1158, 29 March 1884, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 28lh inst :

There has been no important change in the grain market during the past week, local requirements being fairly supplied. Transactions are almost confined to purchasers for shipment. The firm tone held by buyers of wheat precludes the possibility of any appreciable rise in the cereal, while the continued low rates ruling in the Home market, together with the exra burden of the increased tariff show a very gloomy prospect to the farmers. It is fully expected, ' from the accounts to hand,' that there will be a very strong muster of farmers and others interested at the meeting in the hall, Tuam street, on Saturday, to urge on the Government the desirability of reconsidering their late action. Quotations for the Wheat—Hunter's, 3s 4d ; pearl and Essex, 3s 5d ; Tuscan, 3s 6d, all f.o.b. Oats—Prime milling, 2s 2d ; short bright feed, 2s to 2s Id ; inferior kiods, Is 8d to Is lOd f.0.b., with a firm market for the better sorts.

Barley—First class malting, 4s ; second class, 3s 6d to 3s 9d Chnstchurch. Grass Seed—Rye grass, farmers' parcels, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; machine dressed, 4s ; cockstoot, 3§d to 3£d f.o.b. Lyttelton. Butter and Cheese—9d to lOd for the former, and to 4|d for the latter. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. Melbourne, March 25. The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited) reports of the grain market as follows : Wheat, 3s lid to 4s, the market strong; malting barley, steady at 4s 3d to 4s 7d. New Zealand oats in fair demand, 2s 5d co 2s 9d for feeding, and 2s lOd to 2s lid for milling qualities. New. i Zealand oats under bond, 2s,4dto 2s|B£d