Christchorch, September 2. The following is the Corn Exchange report! for the week ending Friday evening, September I:—The same quiet tone which has been the prevailing characterist'c of the grain market continues. Buyers are few and far between; sellers more plentiful. Values in some lines are decidedly a shade weaker. This is in sympathy with the all prevailing dulness. An influx of large orders would harden prices. In this state of the market growers offering produce will have to submit to a reduction. Wheat—Milling wheat, 4s lOd to 5s per bushel, f.o.b. ; second-class samples, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; chick wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; seed samples, 5s 3d to 5s 6d per bushel. Oats—Good short milling, 3s 3d to 3i 4d per bushel; feed quality, 3s Id to 3s 2d; inferior feed quality, Id a bushel) under the lowest quotations. Barley.—Prime malting samples, 4s 7d to 5s per bushel; second quality samples are almost entirely neglected; feed quality, 3s 2d to 3s 4d per bushel, f.o.b. Grass .Seed—The supply for the present much exceeds the demand, holders are asking 5s to 5s 6d for first-class samples, second rate samples are not salable. Potatoes—Sales have been made during the week at from 37s 6d to 40s at country stations, sacks extra; kidney potatoes, L 4 10s to L 5 per ton. Peas and Beans—The former are worth from 4s to 6s per bushel, according to varieties : the latter 4s to 4s 2d per bushel, f.o b. Cheese and Butter—Last week's quo tations must be repeated, although it is probable that next week prices will be down. Cheese, 7Jd to 8d per lb ; butter, potted Is, fresh Is 4d per lb. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Com pany quote the following prices realised during the week:—Sheepskins—Butchers' crossbreds realised 3s 4d to 4s Ud, to 5s 9d, and 6s to 7s Id; merinos, 2s 2d to 3s 9d, 4s id to ss, and 5s 3d to 6s ; country skins made up to 5s 7d; pelts, 6d to Is 6d; and salted pelts, 4s 7d per dozen ; station skins in bales were placed at 6}d per lb. Tallow and Fat—Rough, 2jd to 2Sd, and hard-rendered fat, 3&d. Hides—Dry salted were placed at last week's rates.
