CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1907, 22 June 1889, Page 3

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

The Corn Exchange reports for the week ending Friday evening, the 21st inst.:—The markets are all exceedingly quiet. Farmers are not offering largely, and buyers are not disposed to speculate except to execute orders to hand. The Sydney markets have a downward tendency, tusan, ex Lindus, having been sold at 4s 3d, and since then the prices are reported to be still easier. The Bothwell Castle, now loading, will take a large cargo, and will arrive about the same time as the Hermione, beside which another Californian vessel is due this month, so that for some time we see no likelihood of any improvement in prices. The London values are at a standstill, and it is still questionable whether they have touched th© bottom. Local sales are few, prices being if anything slightly lower. Oats have again lost the briskness apparent a week or so back, as it is now too late to get them into Victoria before the late proposed duty is likely to be put on. Barley has a fair enquiry for special prime lines at quotations, but anything short of the mark is totally neglected. Potatoes have a brisk business: this

is chiefly owing to so large a qaantity going into pit. Grass seeds have only an occasional enquiry for prime lines. Dairy produce is lifeless. The following are our quotations'for the week:— Wheat—Tuscan, 3s 8d ; pearl, 8s 4d to 3s 5d ; hunters, 3s 3d to 3s 4d; whole chiek wheat, 2s lOd to 3s 3d; broken, 2s 6d is 2s 9d. Oats—Milling, 2a lOd ; short stout feed, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; inferior kinds, 2s 5d to 2a 6d. Barley—Prime malting, 3s 9d ; medium, 3s 3d to 3s 4d; feed, 2s 6d to 2s 7d. Beans, 3s Id to 3s 2d. Peas—Blues,3s 6d to 3s 8d; feed, 3s. Grass Seed Byegrass: maehinedressed, 8s 9d to 3s lOd; farmers' lines, 2s 9d to 3s 3d. Cocksfoot: prime heavy clean seed, 3d; foggy and light, 2d to 2£d. Potatoes—s2s 6d to 55s at country stations. Dairy Produce—Prime butter (bare market), 7d to 8d; second quality, dull at 4d to sd. Cheese, S£d to 4d, according to size and quality. The above prices are those paid to farmers for delivery f.0.b., sacks extra.