CORN EXCHANGE.
The following is the Corn Exchange report for the week ending Friday, the 20th instant:— There have been no transactions of any importance in the grain market dusicg the past week. Some few inquiries f jr good sound wheat have met with but little response, owing to the low figure that buyers can fairly offer. Oats remain in just the same position in regard to values and inquiry as last week. A good many lines of second class barley have been offering; buyers however are very indifferent, and do not feel disposed to purchase any other —tan prime malting quality, of which very
littleu coming forward. Beans and peas show no animation, andthe demand for the latter is flagging. Potatoes, exjjeming fo*. with scareelranyatr, tention. The severe< frosts .have made sad havoc with a, large,' proportion** the crop standing bagged: and uncoveredi it is anticipated in consequence that aerial in value may take place shortly. The price of cheese is still maintained, while batter, is but "little sought after, and commands lower rates. The following are the week's quotations :— Wheat.—Sound and dry Tuscan, 3s 3d; pearl, 3s 2d Hunter's, 3s Id; damp, — to 2s 6d; seconds, 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Oats.—Bright milling, 2s 4d ; bright short feed, 2s 3d ; inferior, Is 8d to Is lOd. Barley. — Prime malting, 4s; second quality, 3a 3d to 3s 6d; feed, 2s to 2s 3d. Peas and Be _s.—2s 9d to 3s 3d for the former; the latter, 2b 6d to 3s. Potatoes.-27s 6d to 30s at stations within twelve miles. Butter and Cheese.—lid to. B"td for the former, and 4jd to fid for the latter. The above are the prices paid to farmers when delivered f.o.b. Lyttelton, excepting lin the case 3ot barley and potatoes.
CORN EXCHANGE.
Press, Volume XL, Issue 5857, 21 June 1884, Page 2
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