COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1898, Page 4

COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE.

The English, Continental, and American wheat markets are recovering. Russian cargoes (G-hirka), 31s c.i.f. per 4921b ; Californian No. 1 milling, 28s 9d ; Australian landed cargoes, 32s 6d. Sngar is hardening — Java cane, No. 1, D.S., 11s 10£ d per cwt; German beet, 88 deg., 9s 6d per cwt. Pig iron — Glasgow warrants, No. 1, 48s 7£d per ton f.o.b. in Clyde. The Bradford wool market is quiet. Hemp — Fair Wellington ia quoted at JJ22 10s per ton. London, 22nd September. At the wool sales the Oreti olip brought: 8&d, aud Otekaike, 7|d. (Received September 24, 9.12 a.m.) Paris, 23rd September. The wheat crop is estimated at 12,300,000 hectolitres. Importation of wheat is not necessary. (Received September 24, 9.45 a.m.) Sydney, This Day. Potatoes arefeasing, and are quoted at from .£7 ssto.£7 10sper ton. Hawbra, This Day. A private cable message just received from London reports that the prospects lor both butter and cheese are very encouraging.

The Customs duties collected at the Port of Wellington for the week ending to-day-amounted to £12,110 10s ld. Beer, 6s. Messrs. Gre.orge Thomas & Co. report produce prices for week ending- 24th September as follows : — A brighter tone is noticeable in the value for potatoes consequent upon the cabled advice from Sydney of an advance in prices there. Oats, on the contrary, at present prices are dragging exceedingly, and the same remark applies to flour. We quote— Roller flour (200's), -£11 10s ; whole fowl wheat, 3s 9d ; seconds, 3s 3d to 3s 6d; pollard, firm at^64 10a ; bran, prime short milling oats, 2s 8d to 2s 9d ; good feed, 2s 8d ; common and discoloured, 2s to 2s 6d ; white and dun tartars, 3s ; black do, 3s to 3a 3d; oatmeal (25's), .£l3 to .£l3 10s per ton ; prime oaten sheaf chaff, 10s per ton : ordinary samples, ss ; maize, 3s lid to 3s 2d ; feed barley, 3s to 3s 3d ; beans, 4s 3d per bushel ; pearl barley, 19s ; split peas, 15s ; Prussian blue peas, 5s ; Partridge, 4s ; Derwent table potatoes, .£7 to JSI 10s. A fine demand exists for Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron for seed £,t up to ,£l3, but both are practically unobtainable. Now Zealand onions are scarce at .615 10a to .£l6; American are now on the market at £1.6 to per ton. Old cheese is in small compass at 4§d per lb ; eggs fairly plentiful at 8d per dozen ; hams and bacon, 7d ; bacon, 6fd ; hams, 8d per lb. The market is now being replenished with new season's butter, and factory is in good demand at lid, and dairy B^d per lb. «