CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.
The Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday evening, the 4th inst :
The course of business during the past week has presented no noteworthy change in its general features from those immediately preceding it. A moderately good, steady, evenly-distributed business has undoubtedly been doing in all kinds of grain, but there has been, and still is, a remarkable absence of all tendency to animation and activity. First-class parcels of wheat find a ready sale at former rates, buyers, however, are very stringent in their contracts with farmers, owing to the excessive quantity of soft and damp grain coming to hand. Oats still hold firm, in price, with a good inquiry. Some excellent lines of barley have come forward, and are readily placed at fair average prices. There is a slight lull in grass seed at present, buyers being disinclined to treat except at a shade lower than ruling rates. For butter prices are about maintained, although the recent brisk enquiry has slackened. In cheese there is no perceptible improvement in price, while the demand is quite insignificant. Quotations for the week are: —
Wheat— Tuscan, 3s Gel; Hunter’s and pearl, 3s 4d to 3s 5d f.o.b. Oats —First class milling, 2s 2d ; short bright feed 2s to 2s Id ; other sorts, Is 8d to Is lOd, with very little enquiry. Barley—Prime first class malting, 4s ; second class, 3s Gd to 3s 9d Christchurch. Grass Seed—Farmers’ parcels of rye, 3s S i to 3s Gd; machine dressed 4s; cocksfoot, 3fd to .3gd f.o.b. Lyttelton. Butter and Cheese—9d to lOd for the former, and Sid to for the latter.
ENGLISH MARKETS.
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received the following telegram, dated Loudon, April Ist ; Wool—Market unchanged. Wheat Market dull, and has a downward tendency. New Zealand is worth 40s per lOGlbs. Tallow—Market quiet. Mutton is worth 41s per cwt, beef is worth 37s Gd per cwt. Leather—Market firm. Best sides, lid per lb.
Frozen Meat—Market firm, Mutton, weighing per carcase 7Olb to 751 b, is worth per lb.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1161, 5 April 1884, Page 3
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343CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1161, 5 April 1884, Page 3
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