CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.
Report (per N. P. Meyer, secretary) for week ending Friday, August 8, 1890 :— There has been a fair amount of busmen done during the week. An unsettled feeling, however, prevails owing to the labour manifesto, and should this uneasineis continue sales may be difficult to effect. Wheat is in good demand and prices are firm at quotations. Oats : Samples of prime, fit for export to the London market, are saleable, while little or no business is passing in other grades. Barley : No malting samples on offer ; feed descriptions totally neglected. Beans: a. slight enquiry continues for export. Pease : Blue Prussians still hold their own in value, whilst feed descriptions are difficult to quit. Grass seed: Kyegra*s is held principally by merchants ; any parcels offering havo been taken at full rates; the market closes firm. Cocksfoot: The same remarks apply. Colonial grown clovers: Several parcels have been bought in during the week, buyers are at the moment offering a shade under growers' values • the quality as compared with the imported seei is gord ; it Is free from the irregularities which many of the paroels of imported seed only too often contain. Potatoes: The prospects are not at the moment cheering, Sydney advices being unsatisfactory. Dairy produce : Few transao-
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Otago Witness, Issue 1905, 14 August 1890, Page 21
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210CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. Otago Witness, Issue 1905, 14 August 1890, Page 21
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