COMMERCIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 22, 25 January 1913, Page 9

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTIONEERS' QUOTATIONS.

The large volume of business, especially lln local fruit, continues to be well main- | talned, and all choice lines meet with, gojj j competition. A good demand exists for best ! dessert peaches, nectarines, and apricots. Japanese plums are Iα only moderate request at nominal prices. English varieties are selling well. Very little Sydney irutt has come to hand. The Tofna Is due from the Tojigan Islands and Suva to-day with bananas. Only a moderate demand is expected, with poor prospects. The potato market is not very active. The supply is good and slightly in excess of demand. A few orders have been received from the Islands. Southern brokers are already quoting for forward deliveries. Onions are dull. Local offerings are well ea-ved, and samples forward are very bright. Farmers' butter is not much inquired for. Fresh eggs have declined during the week. The demand for poultry owing to the hot weather has been very dull, buyers only looking for very choice lines. The general condition of birds is Door. FIELD PRODUCE. Potatoes : Local, prime, £7 ton. Onions: Local, £1 ton. DAIBY PRODUCE. Butter: Farmers', in prints, 8d to 10d lb; prime farmers', balk, KU. Fresh eggs, lud to lid dozen. FBUIT. Apples: Local, coloured, extra superior, 6/ case; good, 4/6 to 5/; cooking, 4/ to 4/6. Pears: Bon Chretien, best, 9/ to 10/ ca»e; good, 7/G to 8/3; cooking, 2/ to 3/ bux. Plums: English varieties, 3/ to 4/ case; good, 2/6 to 2/9; Burbanks, large fruit, 2/i< to 2/6; good, 1/6 to 2/; Ogon, 1/6 to 2/ box. Peaches: Coloured, best dessert, 5/ to 6/ case; good, 4/ to 4/6; others, 2/6 to 3/6. Apricots, 5/ to 7/ case. Nectarines: Best, 5/6 to 6/ case; good, i/& to 5/. Grapes: Hothouse, 0d to 10d lb. Tomatoes: Hothouse, best, 4d to 5d lb, good, 3Jd; outdoor 2Jd to 3d. Lemons: Prime, 10/ to 12/6 case; rough and coarse, 4/ to 5/; Sydney, 16/. POULTBT ASJi PIGS. Hens: 1/3 to 1/6 eacte; heavy, 1/8 to. 2/2. Table rooster: 1/6 to 2/10 each; heavy, 3/3 to 4/6. Ducks, 1/6 to 3/ each. Geese, 3/6 to 3/9 each- Chicks, 64 to 1/ each. Young pigs, 8/6 to 12/ each. CHTHSTCHTJBCH GRAIN PBICES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) r*FTR.TRTT» TM 11 Friday. In the northern districts some progress has been made with the cutting of wheat, and 1 hough the crops are good, they are not equal to those of last year. A good many paddocks of oats are now in stook, and some threshing has been done, but very little grain has yet been offered. Growers are holding out for 2/ at country stations for oats, and this price has been paid for a line of prime heavy Gartons. Light grain is in very little demand, and buyers are likely to show a good deal of discrimination in making their purchases for stocking-np purposes. No business has yet been recorded in new barley. Growers are expecting 5/, but buyers' offers are considerably below this figure. A few plots of roadside cocksfoot lines changed hands at 3d to 3sd, but no peninsula seed has yet beea ottered.

BETTER AiSD CHEESE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DT?NEI>IN, this day. London agents report that oheese is selling at from 60/ to 61/ per cwt. The market is active and advancing. Danish batter, 126/ per cwt; New Zealand, salted 114/. unsalted lie/. Toe market Is depressed. NATIONAL MORTGAGE AGENCY. LONDON, January 24. The balance-sheet of the National Mortgage Agency of New Zealand shows a profit of £52,666. The total dividend for the year Is 12* per cent. There has been placed to the reserve £15,000 and £12,066 lias been carried forward. LONDON WOOIi SALES. LONDON, January 24. At the wool sales the following prices were realised for the fleece portion of the clips named:—Wairere, 12J,d and 12d; Murray, 13U and 12}; Tamuu,' 13} d and 13fd: Gear, 14Jd and 12Jd; Leefleld, 13d and 13gd. FCBTHEE ADVANCE EN PKICES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, January 24. 'At the wool sales to-day there -was keen Yorkshire competition. Merinos -were five per cent above December prices. Silver, 2/4Jd. LONDON IiIARKiETTS. LONDON, January 24. Moner Market.—Bank rate, r> per centshort loans, 4i per cent; three months bilte! 4 11-10 per cent; Paris rate, 4 per centBerlin rate, 4 5-8 per cenf. . * • Consols and, Colonial Stocke.—Console (quoted on Jannary 17 at £74 17/6) £75 2/6. Colonial -stocks are unchanged ' Butter Market Depressed.—The butter market is depressed owing to the weather and to heavy supplies. Buyers are inactive, hoping th force further reduction. Danish is quoted at from 134/ to 126/; choicest Australian, from 108/ to 110/, and occasionally 112/; New Zealand from 102/ to 114/. end occasionally 115/.

The cheese market is steady, with, prices unchanged.

Prices of Metals.—Silver, 2/4 13-16 per 03. Copper: On spot, £70 10/: three montns, £70 17/6: electrolytic, £75 10/ TinOn spot, £236 15/; at three months £220 2/8. Pig iron, 66/6.

Sugar.—German, 9/5; first marks, 11/7. Wheat and Flour.—The wheat market Iβ inactive, with a tendency against sellers. Two thousand quarters of January-February shipment were sold at 37/3. Liverpool futures: March, 7/5 1-8 per cental; May. 7/2}; July, 7/2 J. Australian landed is firm at 40/. The flour market Is steady font slow. Australian, store, is quoted at 27/9.

Oats.—La Plata, January-February. 15/71. Beans -and Peas.—Beans and peas are tirin anil unchanged.

Messrs Dalgety and Company, Ltd.. Auckland, are In receipt of the following cable form their head office, London, under date 23rd January, 1913:—"Merino combings, good greasy, prices rather higher Butter: 64,000cwt total imports Into United Kingdom for the week ending Saturday as compared with 72,000 for the corresponding period last year.2 Copenhagen official quotation is two kroners lower. We quoteN.Z. butter at 113./, salted: Danish 126/' Finest Australian salted, 10S/, uusalted same price." The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following cablegram from their London house, under date 22nd inst_:— Tallow.—We quote present spot values for the following descriptions :—Good mutton, 39/ per cwt.: good beef, 35/ per cwL; mlied, 33/3 per cwt. The market is firm. Wheat.—We quote 37/9, c.Lf., Australian cargo. The market is quiet, but steady, owing to increased supplies, and the Argentina outlook is uncertain. We quote per quarter c.Lf. New Zealand wheat, longberried, 35/6; short-berried, 35/. Sheepskins.—Look for good demand; market firm.