Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 2

Commercial.

CHHISTCHUROH CORN EXCHANGE. Report for the week ending Friday, 22nd January : — With grand harvest weather, the crops are being secured in good condition, and though on light land the grain has suffered from contiuned dry weathe/ in not having filled as well as could be wished for, the returns on the whole will, we believe, be satisfactory. The few samples so far offered are barely a fair criterion of the season's crop, and as yet prices of new grain can hardly be said to be fixed. Sales so far made have been on the basis of last season's values. From information which we can rely on, contributed from different localities, we summarise the various crops as follow : — Wheat— Less acreage ; yield above average ; good quality. Oats — Larger area under crop ; yield above average on what will be threshed (in many instances this crop has been fed where the yield promised badly, and feed was required) ; quality poor. Barley — Smaller are*; yield under average ; quality irregular. Quotations are a 9 follow :— Wheat.— Prime milling, 3s 2d to 3s 4J ; medium, 2a lOd to 3s ; chick wheat (whole), 2s 9d. Oats.— Short bright feed and milling, Is lOd to 2s Id ; slightly discolored, short feed, Is 9d ; long and inferior, Is 7d to Is 3d. Barley.— Malting, 3s 3d to 3s 4d ; feed, Is 9d to 2s. Dairy Produce. —Unchanged values. The above prices are those paid to tanners, and delivered (f 0.b.) Lyttelton.