CHRISTCHURCH — Yesterday.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7991, 8 October 1887, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH — Yesterday.

Phoddoe. — There has been a firmer feeling m the market, although business is still very quiet. Whe it' is very firm ; oats are on the rise. Rye grass moves off yery slowly, bat cocksfoot is asked for. Potatoes have risen. Cheese and salt butter find few purchasers, The latest quotations are: —Wheat: Tuscan and velvet, 3s 6d to 3s 6Jd; Hunter,' 3s 4d to 3s 6d ; chick wheat, 2s lid to 3s, Flour, £9 10s to £10 per ton; oatmeal, £8 10s per ton. Oats, feed, Is 9d to Is lid ; milling, Is lid to 2s Id the bushel, Barley : malting, 3s 4d to 3s 6d ; feed, 2s to 2s 3d the bushel. Gheeoe, 3d to 3£d per lb.; butter (prime keg), 6£d to 7^l; fresh, 9d to Is ; eggs, 6d per dozen, Hama and bacon, 6d to 6£d per lb. Bye-grass seed, extra machined, 3s 3d per bushel ; farmers' parcels ate quite unsaleable at any price. - Cocksfoot grass seed at 4£d to '4£b.< Onions, £5 10s to £6 per ton. ■ Potatoes nominally 203 at country stations,

Hobse Mabkht — Medium draught, £JO to £12; good draught, £14 to £20; 3-year-old unbrokea cart colts, £8 to £12; 2-year-olds, £3 to £6 ; hacks, from £7 to £10 ; welltued ditto, £12 to £15. Useful farm horses, £15 to £25. '

Live Stock.— Beef is quoted from 20s to 22s per lOOlbs. ) prime mutton, 2£d ; secondary, 2d per lb, Bacon pigs, 34s to 465; porkers, 18s to 335 ; stores, 10s to 17s 6d 6d. .