TELEGRAMS COMMERCIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5332, 17 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS COMMERCIAL

(by special wire.) DUNEDIN; March 15. The following hare been the ruling wholesale prices during the week i — Dried fruits : Currants, 4jd ; sultana raisins, s£d ; elemes, s|d; muscatelles, Is. Tenant's ale, 12s: Blood's porter, 11s 9d ; Guineas' stout, 12s 6dj pig brand, 12s 6d. Teas, duty paid, common, Is to 25.; good to medium, 2s 3d to 2s6dj superior, kinds, 2s 9d to 3s 5 boxes, 40s to 30s ; orange pekoe, 2s 9d to 3s ; gunpowder, 2s 6d to 3s. Sugar, duty paid, fine white, £41 to £42; grey crystals, £39 to £40; yellow ditto, £38 to £39 ; second yellow, £36 to £37 ; ration, £34 to £36 ; Victorian white, £40 to £42; crushed loaf, American, 51s. Patna rice, £32 10s per ton; dressed rice, £27 10s per ton. Brandies, in bond, Otard's in case, 27s ; associated vineyards, 7s 6d to 8s 3d per gal. ; Hennessy's, 10s to 10s 3d per gal j ditto case, 355 ; Bisquit de Bouche, 8s 6d per gaL, and 25s case ; whiskey, Dunvill's 18s in case ; Glenlivet, 9s per gal. ; Rob Roy, case, 19s ; Old Highland, 10s ; Long John's case, 18s 6d j Hazel Burn whiskey, bulk 6s ; rum, 4s to 4a sd ; Lome, bulk, 6s 6d ; case, 19s; Geneva, J.D.K.Z., case, Burnett, 14s. Kerosene, Empress, 2s 3d 5 Noonday, 2s 3d ; Devoes.lß lid, demand Is lid; Nonpariel's 2s 4d ; Calcium Light, 2s 4d. Stock market— Best bullocks, up to £13 10s per head; ditto oows, £8 15s equal to 27s 6d to 30s for prime beef, and 24s to 25s per 1001 b for medium fat sheep ; best crossbreds 18s each, equal to 21s 4d per lb prime mutton. Mr J. Fleming reports : — Wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel ; fowls feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; oats, new, 2s 6d to.6s 8d ; old, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel ; barley, 5s 6d to 6s ; feed, 3s to 3s 6d per buehel 5 potatoes, £5 to £5 10b per ton ; hay, new, £4, old £6 per ton ; chaff, £4 to £4 10s per ton ; straw, £2 per ton,; bran, £4 per ton ; flour, £9 10s to £10 ; large bags, best quality, £10 ; small, £10 10s per ton ; oatmeal, £17 per ton ; pearl barley, £26 per ton; onions, 9s per cwt; cheese, 6£d; bacon, B*d per lb. Messrs Anderson and Co., millers, report— Mour, sacks, £9 ; oatmeal, £18 ; pollard, £5 : bran, £4 10s per ton ; pearl barley, £26 ; fowl wheat, 2s 9d to 3s 6<Lper bushel ; new oats, Ss 9d. TIMARU, March 15. The grain market shows signs of increased activity, and marked improvement has been manifested during the last day or two in the values of wheat. Deliveries are coming forward freely and in quantity, and. the market for this cereal is if anything slightly easier. Quotations to-day for delivery in Timaru are as follows :— Wheat, 2s lid to 3s Id, and 3s 2d for large parcels of really prime milling ; oat»j 2s 3d to 2s 7d ; barley, 4s 3d to ss, very little of the latter is come forward, and what we have seen has not been of the best quality. Three or four English vessels are bespoken to load in Timaru for home ports, and farmers desirous to ship on their own account should find little difficulty in doing so at very reasonable rates. , The Blue din's merino rams were sold yesterday by Messrs Of. T. Ford and Company on the show, grounds; 256 were penned and all were sold, tho average price being 35s per head. They abo sold 20 Linooln rams on account of Mr John Grigg of Longbeach at an average price of £4 4s per head.