CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVI, Issue 994, 28 November 1883, Page 2

CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.

Report for the week ending, 23rd instant : — The slight improvement of last week has not held good for this, business baring settled down to 'he dull routine usual at this time of the year, and a continuance of which may be expected until harreiting our present crop, the prospects of which loyk fairly promising. Quotations for the week are as follows :* • Wheat.— Sound milling, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel, delivered in Ohristchurch ; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s 66* ; chick wheat, Is lOd to 2s 3d per bushel. Oats.-— Prime milling, 2s Id to 2s 2d per bushel (f.0.b.) ; bright shoit feed, Is lid to 2a ; inferior and discoloured, 1* 9i to Is lid per bushel. Barley.— First-class malting, 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; second quality, 3s 61 to 8a 8d ; feed Is lid lo 2s 2d per bushel. Grass Seed.— Unaltered since prerious quotations ; demand nominal.

Potatoes, 27a 6d to 30s at country stations.

Cheese and Butter : 4d to 6d for the former, and 5d to 7d for the latter (kegs extra).

Gardeners, and those who take note of starlings (says a Canterbury paper) know that they are the most useful bird that has ever been brought into the Colony, and the Acclimatisation Societies are as much to be thanked for introducing them as they are to be blamed for bringing in the sparrow. Some farmers say they do not care ijo gee them on their laud, whilst others say there is no more welcome sight than to see a number of starlings marching through their paddocks in skirmishing order devouring the insects and grubs aa they move along.