COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 6914, 29 May 1885, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

-=— =—^ The amount of rovendo collected at the Customhouse nn poods cleared to-day for consumption was Ll.lOl Os 4d. The Auckland Kihro Company made a profit of L«77 on last year's transactions, and carried that sum forward. Mr H. H. Lusk. solicitor, of Auckland, is bankrupt with liabilities set down at L 3.937.

THE LONDON MARKETS.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company have received the following produce televram from tbeir London office, date! 29 hj intt. : " Wheat: Market <|uiet. Adolaide is worth 3Gs (id ; Tuscan 86s; New Ze iland .13i (id per 4901b. Adelaide f.a.q. is worth ('-. i f., to arrive) 35s 6d per 4801b Tallow: Market Hat Mutton ix worth 31s, and bi of 293 per cut Leather: Market unchanged. Copra : Market dull at Lls 5s per ton. New Zvaland Hemp: Market firm Fine U worth L 27 ; medium, L2l ; and common, LI 7 per ton.

THE HARVEST.

Ws (* Trado Review') havo now before us the complete returns of the collection of statistics t f land in cultivation and agricultural produce which was officially made in February. In our last issue we were enabled to give an approximate estiaiato of the result, founded upon the partial returns then tublithed The actual totals of wheat, oats, and barley are in each case rather belt* our estimates, hut the proportion tf increase and decrease in each class diffe s but slightly from our last month's figures Tho correct aggregates are as follows j Acres. Bushels. Averß K c P er

The total acreage under thesothreocrrpsil 064.640 against "73,567 for 18S4 arednotion of 0,027 acres. T>e area under wh*at is less by 107,G«3 acre*, th t under oa-s larger by 91,840 acre" and that under barley is in. reased by 0,790 aeres. Tiiojavt rage jieMs per acre assimilate very closely to tlnse of last year. Potatoes show a total of 21,848 acres and 123,604 tons figiMQSt 21 102 acres and 113 193 tons last year. In turnips or rape thero was 852,956 acres, which is only 147 aorce more than in 18S4. Among other cops we notice 3,391 acres of niaizo or sorghum, 4,870 of mangold, b-et, carro s, etc., 1,228 cf hops, and 79 acres of tobncM. Tho yield of grass seed ta given for tha first time in this yeat's return*, the crops being 287,850 bushels of cocksfoot, and 476.923 bu-bels of rve-grass. The extant of iand under grass is given in tho following figures :- 1835. 18S4. Aores. Acres. Grass-sown after being broken up.. .. .. 2.592,492 2,274,41)1 Grass - sown, not previously ploughed 2 666,342 2,460,115 In the aggregate, therofore, there is 524,000 acres additional land brought under gras* sines last year.

asre. Wheat 18S:> •270.048 6,866,777 25 43 bushels 1884 377,706 9 827,136 Sfl.02 „ Oats 1885 354.791 13,360,44!) 34.84 „ 1881 202,!)">4 9,231,38!) 8.1 11 „ Barley 1SSS 83,703 1,206 906 30 B7 „ 1881 32,907 964 460 89.31 .,