COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 57, 31 January 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

LATEST MAKKM 1 RB PORTS.

THIS DAY'^ QUOTATIONS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (UEUTJEKS TKLEGRAMs) London, Jan. 29. Consols are quoted at 102^. New Zealand 4^ per cent J 879-1904 loan is quoted at 1031, an advance of £1. Coloni tl breadstuff's continue firm. Adelaide flour, ex store, hag advanced Is. and is now at 34s 6J. Adelaide wheat remains ab 503 6d } ex store, and New Zealand wheat at 44s 6d to 48s, according to qiulity. Total quantity of wheat afloat for Great Britain, 2,250,000 quarters, or 30 000 less than la>t week. Australian tallow is firm, and has advanced by 6d per cwt, and best beef is 44<3 ; best mutton, 46s 6d. WELL.LNOTOST MARIiErS. Hassell and Co. report :— Flour, £10 to £11 ; oatmeal, £15 ; bran, £ I ; pollard, £ 5 ; potatoes, £5 to £6 ; onions, £16 per ton. Oats, 2s 9d to 8s 6d ; wheat, '3s 6d to 4s 6d ; maize, 4s 9d per bushel. Butter, 7d to B<J, 3acon and hams, 9d per Ib ; e^gs, Is to Is Id. Fowl?, 3s 6d ; dncks, 43 per pair. Business m graitt particularly slow, as bu'era are holding off, waiting arrival of new crop. Laery and Campbell report : — Eggs are more scarce, and worth Is 2d per dozen. The market is quite bare of butter, both fresh and salted ; there have been inquiries for salt butter during the week. Poultry haa been m very small supply, but, even ao, is hard to place. Potatoes may be quoted as m brisk demand at £6 per ton. Onions, alow of sale at l£d to 2d per lb. In other produce there is literally no busi*. ness doing except m quite retail lots. George Thomas reports a plentiful supply of old oats to hand, and several cargoes on the water. Prices are quite nominal j ruling from 2s lid to 3s 3d, but the samples are ftr from first class, and this may probably account for ft proportion of the decline, m prices. Wheat (tow s'), heavily stocked, ruling from 3s 8d to 3s 10d; barley, 3* 7d to 3s 9d ; maize , very little sale, and none offering, 4s 6d to 4s 9<) is considered a fair markft report ; fl >ur, £10 15s to fill; oatmeal, £15; br*n, £4 10s; pollard, £5 Is ; hams and bacon, B|d to 9d ; cheese, 7£d ; butter, Bjd to 9J. A good inquiry exists, for grass seed. For firstnclass perennial rye-grass ssed 4s 6d to 4s 9d is quoted ; there have been somo transactions at the former figure ; cocksfoot is worth 4d to 4^d. Butter is quoted at 7-|d to 8d per b for prime potted. Cheese, Bd.