CANTERBURY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3057, 14 May 1867, Page 4

CANTERBURY.

Mr. C. J. Hubbard, of the Corn Exchange, new Town Hall, reports, on Saturday, a large attendance, principally of persons whose chief object seemed to be to ascertain quotations ; and the majority of whom left, apparently with the determination to hold on if possible for more remunerative prices, partioularly as regards wheat and oats, both of which are ruling at figures whioh, if aocepted, would involve a loss to the growers over and above the cost of the production and harvesting. Buyers are offering for fair samples of wheat 2s 6d to 3s ; oats, 2s 3d to 2a 9d ; field peas, saleable at 3s to 43 6d j beans, 4s 6d to 53 6d. Flour is most difficult to place at £8 to £9. Moderate sale for grass hay, trussed, £4 10s to £5 ; potatoes^ £2 10s to £3 j and carrots, £2 to £2 10s. A limited demand for malting barley, for provincial use and occasional shipments, at 3s 6d to 4s 3d. Thirteen exhibitors came forward for the prize offered by the Brewers' Association. The two Judges — Mr. Stokes, malster for Messrs. J. Ef. Ward and Co., and Mr. Manning, malster for Mr. Deacon — gave their award for the £20 prize to Mr. John Smith, Leeston ; and for the £10 prize to Mr., Mawson, Selwyn. The sample shown by 'Mr. B. Monk, banks of the Waimakariri, was highly commended. Altogether the samples were so superior that the opinion, so often expressed, that we can do without English malt, bids fair to be fulfilled. — Xtyttelton Times, May 4.