COMMERCIAL.
CnoBKEBT, Habeioi & Co. report sales in their rooms last week:— Flour, sacks, jBIO 10s to £11; oatmeal, £11; bran, £3 10s; pollard, £5; potatoes, £2 10s per ton; oata, 2a to 2a 2d; barley, 2s 6d ; maize, old, 3* ; wheat, 3s 6d per bushel ; hams and bacon, 9J ; cbeeee. 4d per lb; apples, 7a 6d to 10s; pears, 10s to Us; oranges, 9s; quinces, 7s per oate ; fowls, 4a ; ducks, 4a 6d ; tur*6yß, 10b; geese, 8a per pair. Labbt ac Oampb&ll reoort that although apples are getting scaroe prices have not materially improved; at auction to-day they brought 7b to 8b; quinces, 7s ; flue large walnuts 8d par lb ; for Bmu.il nuts tuere was no demand ; Taimaniera pears, 12a but there are very few oases in the market ; potatoes, £i 10a to £5, the deuand not improving at all; onionß are still Blow ol Bale at £1 10 ato £5 ; in oats, maize and chiokenfeed there ia literally notbing doing.it being impossible to sell more than hand to mouth lota ; cheese iB without enquiry, 4d to4jd being tho nominal price; hams ucd bacon, in oloth, guaranteed, may be quoted at 9d to 9_d; no freßh butter in the market since laatrepoit; eggs, 2b 5d to 2j OJ. for guaranteed IreaU and good; fowls, 3a ad to 3a 6d per pair ; geese, 4a 6d each ; duoks, ia 6d per pair.
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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 101, 2 May 1881, Page 2
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230COMMERCIAL. Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 101, 2 May 1881, Page 2
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