CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.
The following is the Corn Exchange report (per G. S. Hickman, secretary) for the week ending April 29 :— The week has been uneventful as regards the grain market. Wheat is still coming forward freely and last week's prices are firmly maintained and commands buyers' attention for filling up Home vessels on berth ; but farmers are wanting more than offered, and in the meantime are storing. Chickwheat, clean and dry, fetches good money. Oats, milling and good short feed fit for shipping, are in good demand, but inferior sorts are dull. Long Tartars for seed have had plenty of inquiry, but the season will soon be past for this year. Malting barley is in request for prime lines, but medium quality is not so much sought after, indeed many malsters now are only operating on prime. The grass seed sowing season is about past, consequently prices are not so firm. Derwent potatoes are now commanding the chief attention and considerable quantities have changed hands at 32s 6d for delivery off the forks, while an advance can be obtained for delivery ia the succeeding months. The current quotations for the week are as follows, viz : — Wheat : Tuscan (prime milling), 2s 8d ; pearl, 2s 7d ; Hunter's 2s 6d ; chicken, Is 6d to 2s 3d. Oats : Prime milling, Is lid ; short prime feed, Is 9d ; ordinary feed, Is 8d ; Tartarian, Is lid. Barley : Prime (very scarce), 3s 3d to 4s ; feed, 2s. Peaa : Blue Prussian (hard threshed), 3s Id ; Partridges, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; duns, 2s Bd. Beans, 2s lOd per bushel. Tares, 6s to 8s per bushel (wanted). Ryegrass: Machine dressed, 3s 6d ; farmers', Ss to 2s 9d. Cocksfoot, 2d to 3d per lb. Butter : Prime keg, 8d to 9d ; separator, 9d ; farmers' keg, 7d per lb. Cheese, 3Jd to 4d Jper lb. Hams and bacon (in cloth), 7jd per lb. Flour : Roller, £8 ; stone, £7 per ton. Bran (sacks in), £2 158 ; sharps, £3. Hay, £3. Chaff : Oat straw, £2 ; wheat straw, £1 12s 6d ; oat sheaf, £3 5s per ton. Straw : Wheat, £1 ; oat, £1 10s. Oat Bheaves, £2 5s to £2 10a. Potatoes : Kidneys, 35s to 40s ; Derwents, 32s 6d to 355.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2045, 4 May 1893, Page 24
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366CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE. Otago Witness, Issue 2045, 4 May 1893, Page 24
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