COMMERCIAL.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 139, 16 November 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tj WELLINGTON MARKETS.

George Thomas and Co. repoi i produce priro : The market rnr’tered ’’n grain and product* generally. Competition among the various traders is kjen, and consequently the mfirgins'of profit are cut exceedingly fie. Oats continue 'o fair • nest at Is lOd to Is lid for common,

.1 2s to 2s 3d for slime for milling samples. Oatmeal of favorite brands commands ft) 10s, other qua!’ties £9 upward ; oaten sheaf chaff, £4 os to £4 10s ; straw do, £3 to £3 os per ton. Flour has a slight tendency to weakness, duo entirely to the sharp competition now er'stmg between millers: we quote roller process £lO to £lO os, and stone d'tto, £9 10s to £9 los ; fowl wheat is in ample supply at 3s 9d to 3s lOd for retaT lots, or 3s 7d for parcels; wheatmeal, £lO ; bran and pollard are both stagnant, the heavy demand for these V’ncs being over, the former i ales at £3 os and the latter at £4 per ton; maize is reported from the northern growing districts as show "ng a fi-m upward tendency, in consequence of an Australian demand springing up, we quote 3s lOd, with light stocks; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; Prussian blue peas, 3s 9d, to 3s 10; beans. 3s lOd. Onions very scarce and hard to obtain, a small lot of Melbourne growth went at £2O per ton, but this value is not l'kely to be ma : nta - ned, the new crop shoo'd be avai'able hi a foicuigbt. Old Derwent potatoes are enquired for freely for seed pu-poses, and pi me samples command 40s to 50s per ton read'ly. New do, for table pc poses, are now a'most uversa" y used, and rale from 8s per cwfc. Green peas, Is sd; gooseberries, 4d ; eggs, 9d ; fowls, 4s ; turkeys, 8s od: ducks, 4s Gd ; geese, 7s per pair ; rhubarb, 4s (id per doz.

RABBIT SKINS. Out of 1542 bales catalogued for the public sales, held in London on the 10th September, 1512 were cleared. Good to prime winter si ms, averaging about 11 to 2-Jlbs per dozen, fetched 2s to 2s 4;,’d per lb ; fair ordmary to good, averaging I.} to lllbs per dozen, Is Gd to 2s per lb ; common and low season, averaging 1 to 2lbs per dozen, Od to Is 5Ad per lb ; sma" and suckers, averaging j to £lbs per dozen, 5d to 12).d per lb ; black and fawn, sld to Is 3fd per lb.