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Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 104, 29 October 1884, Page 2

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• liVKiutrn Post Orrici. Wednosday Afternoon. LiiRT & Campbell report :— " Daring tho past week business has bean steady, nud prices hare beeu fully maintained, oxcopt for potatoes, which )iare (loclincd 20s por ton; holders aro forcln? •applies, bub unless arrivals are vory heavy £6 i-liould bo obtainable for small lots for some time. Nuw pitatoes Itivo beeu in short uuoply, but prioea huvo not advanced. Oats are oSeriug freely Flour in still at £9. Oatmoal is not likely to iinprovo thiit season. Ouions, uouo in market, filuizo, 4s 4d, scirco ; pease, Ss Gd, demand small ; bonus, without enqniry i barley tailings unsaleable ; chick wheat, 2s 6d to Sg for flrst-olass, inferior hard to sell ; milling wheat, no market hero but it is worth 8s 9d for upconntry roilla; bran and pollard will continue to decline as tho season advances; salt battor not asked for; lresh do, 6(1 to 6id ; eggfl. lOd to 10} d; poultry, Boarce ; ornugea realised 14s to 15s. There were but few horsos in Iho yard on Saturday, and, although not of a first-class stamp, wore eagerly sought after. SHAM EJBFOBT. Mr D. T. Btoart reports (29th) for week to (Into :— Sales— Colonial Dank, 43a ; National Insurance, 24s Gd ; Union. 82s 6d to S3s ; Drug Co , 20s Gd: Mauawatu Bail way, par. Ssllebb— Bank of N.Z , £22 6s cum div ; National Insurance, 235; N.Z, 798; Uuion, 23s 3d; NZ. Shipping, 635; Keep It Bark (Hoof ton), 435; Welcomes, 59s Cil. BniEßS— Uniou Insurance, 235 ; Equitnblo BuiUliuir of Wellington, £5 15s ; WeUiugton Trust and liOan, £5 15s; Keep It Dark, 41s; Bank of New Zealand £22. Quotations— National Bank, (Ms; N Z Insurance, 7&) to 795; Standard, 12s 3d ; NZ. Shiping, GOs to 635 ; National Mortgage, 21s 6d ; Mosgiol Woollod, 82s Gd ; WollhigUrn Qua, £15 58 to £15 10s; South British liihuranco, s'2b to 555; Tiuateos Executors of N Z. (Duuedio) par.