COMMERCIAL

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 21, 26 January 1898, Page 4

COMMERCIAL

KAURI GUM MARKET,

AUCKLAND, Wednesday.

This market showed no alteration during the past week as far as prices for good quality gum were concerned. Owing, however, to the dry weather enabling diggers to work the swamps the bulk of the gum sent in latterly :'s of lower grade, for which buyers here hesitate to pay the prices generally asked. Holders of gum 01 good quality are firm in tlieir demand for full prices, but at the moment there appears more inclination on the part of the buyers to wait for lower, rates to rule for the bulk of the gum. A contributory cause to the less eagerness manifested to buy is 710 doubt the fact that the barque 'Alice is now fully loaded with cargo for New York, and there will not be another boat for America far two or three weeks. The Silverstream is, however, loading gum for London. Supplies of gum ■ for the 26 days of January total '450 tons. ' ;We quote :—; Poor ordinary ... ~ ..... ... £38 to £4/5 Fair ordinary ~. ... ... £50 to £60 Good ordinary... ... ... £65 to £75 Superior ordinary ... ... £75 to £84 East Coast ' ... £72 Rescraped .... ... , ...£9O to £100 Good rescraped ... ... £110 up AUSTRALIAN PRODUCE MARKET. SYDNEY, this day. Wheat, chick, prime milling, 4s to 4s 2d. Flour, Manitoban, £12; local, old, £11 to £11 ss; new, £10 10s to £10 15s. Oats, prime feeding, 2s 5d ; seeding, 2s Od to 2s Sd; maize, local 3s Id to 3s 3d, New Zealand 3s 2d ; barley, Cape 3s to '.te Id, English 3s 3d ; peas, Prussian blue, 5s ; bran, 7£d; pollard, B£d ; potatoes, cir cular heads £6 10s to £7, local and Victorian £4 to £5 : onions, Victorian £4 : butter, dairy scl to 6id, factory GAd to 7d ; cheese, New Zealand large 451], loaf prime aid; bacon, 6d to 7od. MELBOURNE, this day. Wheat, 4s 7Ad ; oats, Algerian feedim Is 6d to Is 9hd, stout white 2s Id to 2; 3d ; maize, 3s ; bran, 9|d ; pollard, IOAd ; potatoes, £4 10s to £4 Iss ; onions, £3. ADELAIDE, this day. Wheat, 4s 5d to 4s 6d ; flour, old, £li" 10s, new £10 10s to £11 ; oats, Algerian,

2s to 2s 3d, stout white 2s Gd to 3s ; bran and pollard, ll|d to Is each. . Messrs Hunter and Nolan report :—There was a good muster of horses at the Durham i ards sale on Friday, and last, week's prices were maintained. "Heavy draughts brought from £12 to £19 10s • medium draught,. £9 10s to £13 10s ; light harness, £2 10s "to £10; hacks, £3 2s Gd to £10; weedy horses, £1 to £1 10s. There was a large catalogue of hides and skins yesterday. Ox hides sold from 2.? dto 4d each; cowhides. 2|d to iHcl; calfskins, 2}d to Ud ; tallow, 10s Dd to 12s Gd per cwt: rouirh fat, 3d alb; bones, 3s per owt;

pelts, 4d to Is 4d; skins, 10d to 4s lid; lambskins, 9d to Is 7d. Beef: Moderate market of beef, with a slight improvement in prices; ox beef lGs per 1001b, cow beef 14s. Dairy cows \ were.dull of sale, bringing from £217s (id to £5. Sheep: Last week's prices maintained, an i average number being yarded; wetjiers from 7s 9d to 11s Gd; ewes, 4s 6d to 8s 9d; lambs, 5s to 9s'i pigs, suckers, 11s Gd.