CORN EXCHANGE.

Press, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4755, 29 October 1880, Page 2

CORN EXCHANGE.

The following i? &« report for the week ending Friday eTening. the Mih iasfc.: — 1 here is little cr no business to report upon da ing the past week. Any transactions taking place are of sufih a character as to have do effess oa prices. Meantime the weather continues most f .vorable. The crops in all parts of the country are looking extremely well, and everything hids fair for a good harvest. Wheat—Firet-claes milling ia still a paleab.e article althoagh pr.ces are in bo way affected ; for this 4s to 4s 3d ; second quality. 3s to 3s 6d; cbick wbe t, Iβ 9d to 2s 9d per bushel. Oate—Good eiout milling: A fair demand exists for this quality at from Iβ 6d to Iβ 8d ; feed samples, la 3d to la 4d; inferior feed, Iβ to Is2d per bread. . . Barley—There is hardly any business doing, nothing but the choicest samples meeting with any attention. Prices remain at last -week s quotations. p rime malting, 2j 8d to 3s 3d per buahel: second quality, 2s 3d to 2s 6d; feed grain, la 61 to Is 9d p*r bushel. Grass Seed-The demand is falling off. A few or era regain unexecuted. Heavy, well cleaned farmers' parcels are saleable at from -a β-i to 2s 9J ; town dreesed, 3a to 3s 3d; bad y cleaned light seed, Is 9d to 2s 3d per bushel. Potatoes—There are no orders in the market, and the demand is, as nearly as pe3sible, ail. Any orders coming to hand could be executed at from 12a 6d to 15a at country stations within a radius of aeven miles from Christchurch, sacks "cheese and Butter—4d to 4Jd for the former, sid to 6d for the latter.