COMMERCIAL.

Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 108, 30 May 1885, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Evbbixs Post Orrtox, Saturday Afternoon. The onstomn ditties' oolleoted nt the port of WolUugrtou for tlin we«V ending to-day, amounted to £5387 54 lOd. Beer daty, £68 18s 2d Qioaon Thomas & Co report: produce as follows j— Oats— The market is steady j bright milling, 2a 3d to Ss 4d t feed, 2h to 2s Id. Oatmeal has usual business at £12 10s to £12 15s. Flour it in supply, but prices i»ro now the lowest possible to clear cost— £B 10a to £9. Milling wheat, no demand t fowls' do. in good supply (there being lanre quantities of damaged grain in Canterbury) 3s 5d to 2* lOd j teed barley, 2s 3d ; maize, 4s 9d ; beans, 3a 9d; posse, 3s 3d; pearl barley, £20 IVllurd and bran are in unusually heary winter ¦demand, and supplies being limited, their respsctireftrices, £5 and £4 10s, are Tory firm There ii a deal ot speculation iv potatoes in tbe South, in anticipation of higher rates ; Taluol here may bo quoted at 65s to 70a. Prime onions are scarce (it £7 10 a. Bacon and hams new cure, hs re reduced I<l par lb ; general demand for Chrlstchuroh cure at 9id. Cheese, 4 jd ; salt butter, 8} to 9d ; hone; Cd ; e«rgs> scarce at 2s Cd per doz ; turkeys, enquired for at 12s per pair ; geese, 6s 8d ; ducks. 4s ; fowls, 3s 6d. As the fruit trade has been affected fiy the inclement weather, and prices are Tery low in consequence, it would be unfair to make quotations ; better prospects are looked for