TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5624, 28 February 1880, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL

[by special wike.3 CiuusTcinnicii, Friday. The! grain/ market during the week has been moderately active. When stacking has been further advanced and the farmers have more time to visit town transactions will doubtless be more numerous. Deliveries of wheat for shipment have been 1 already more frequent, and the Arethusa, I/My Jocelyn, and other vessels are fast filling up wtli early lots. In price wheat has eased a shade, and buyers are not offering oyer 3s 9d for good milling lots, though an extraordinary fine samxile might fetch nu additional penny. In oats there is little doing',, the farmers not caring to bring forward parcels at the rates ruling unless compelled ; the quotations are Is 4d to Is 5d for feed, and Is 6d to Is 7d for milling. -Of 'barley a"' considerable number of samples are being brought forward; buyers are offering 3s 3d to 3s Cd for average quality, whilst first class commands an advance. Flour is quoted at £10 10s to £11 10s. Eye grass seed is without alteration, and there is little chance of improvement in prices for some time to come ; values range j from 2s to 2s 6cl, according to condition ; cocksfoot is selling at 2Jd to 3d. In dairy produce butter is quoted at 6d to 6id; cheese, 4d to 5Jd ; hams and bacon, lOd. r The market for mutton this week is dull, but beef is better ; the former is quoted at l}d to Hd, and the latter at 18s per 1001 b. Pigs are scarce and- are koenly competed for. Auckland, Friday. Mr A. Buckland's weekly report states as follows : —At the Haymarket on Friday hay and straw were offered in' less than the usual quantities and were of better value. A large supply of |local oats met a ready sale at from 2s Id to 2s 3d per bushel. Cape barley sold at 2s 3d. "Horse stock were in the usual numbers ;' hacks, from £5 to £10 ; medium draught, from £13 to £26. Hides and skins were! in less numbers on Tuesday, but at good valne ; hides, 3d per lb; skins, from Is 3d to 3s 8d each. Tallow fetched 2ts to' 2ss per cwt. Wool in grease sold at 6id-to BJd per lb. At Papakura on Wednesday there was the usual attendance of buyers and a larger muster of cattle than for several weeks. Prices were fairly sustained. At Kemuera on Thursday there were not many dairy or store cattle yarded. Fdt cattle were in full nnniber, 176 head being offered ;" prices were lower than hitherto by Is to 2s the 1001 b. Good heifers and steers ranged at from 22s to 255; cows, from 17s ; shipboruo oxen, 15s to 22s per 1001 b. Fat sheep wei-e also in larger supply than the' average, but kept their values; good wethers were steady at 2d per lb ; lambs wero plentiful at from 5s to 11s. Porkers of good quality ranged from 25s to 30s each, Dunedin, Friday. Mr J. B. Bradshaw reports Bank of New Zealand shares, £19 to £2; National Bank, 02s; Colonial Bank, 40s ; National lusuranee, 20s 6d ; New Zealand Insurance,- £4 ss ; South British, 425; Union Insurance, 15s ;. Colonial Insurance, 9s ; National Mortgage, £20, ex div. ; Scottish and New Zealand rnvestinent, 21s ; Quthrie and Larnach's Timber ami Hardware Factories, oos. Prime fat beef, 25s per 1001 b ; mutton, l|d per lb ; wheat, 4s 3d to -is 6d; fowls' wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 7d; oats. Is 6d.to Is Od ;' barley, 5s to 5s 6d ; feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes, £3 10s to £4 ; hay, £4 ; new oaten hay, £3 5s ; chaff, £3 10s ; straw, £2 ; bran, £4 ; pollard, £5 ; flour, £11 to £11 10s ; oatmeal, £11 ; pearl barley, , £26 ; onions. 7s ; ne%y cheese, 4d to Cd ; bacon, rolled, lOd ; hams, Is. ■ L, ' Timaru, Friday. Very few transactions have taken place in the new.., grain, and deliveries are very light. Merchants* prices are 3s 3d to 3s 6d for wheat, Is 3d for oats, and 3s to 3s 3d for barley; but farmers are disinclined to accept those prices at present.