WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 5, 16 August 1842, Page 4

WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

COIIUECTTSD UP TO LAST NIGHT.

Wines, 15 per cent. ~J With 10 per cent. Tea, Sugar, Flour, Wheat, and other l additional on grains, 5 per cent. J Invoice. Current Rate of Interest. Bank Discounts, 10. per cent. Discounting days, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Provisions. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bread —Per 21b. loaf 0 0 7 .. 0 0 0 Beef— Fresh, carcase per lb 0 0 9 .. 0 0 0 Salt, per tierce 5 10 0 .. 6 0 0 Do. per barrel 3 3 0 .. 0 0 0 Butter —Irish, per lb. (none). Fresh 0 3 3 .. 0 0 0 Mutton —Carcase per lb 0 0 9 .. 0 0 11 Pork —Fresh, carcase per lb.... 0 0 7 .. 0 0 8 Irish, per barrel 5 10 0 .. 0 0 0 Potatoes —New Zealand, per ton 4 0 0 .. 6 0 0 Cheese —Cheshire, (no stock).. 0 1 G .. 0 0 0 Pine Apple 0 0 0 .. 0 1 2 Dutch 0 Hams —Yorkshire, per lb. (none). 0 0 .. 0 1 0 j Rice —Common,per cwt. (none). Good I 7 Tobacco (in bond.) 0 .. l 10 0 Tobacco —Ncgrohead, per lb in bond 0 1 0 .. 0 0 0 Cigars —Manilla, per 1000,. .. 3 0 0 .. 4 0 0 Inferior 1 18 0 .. 2 0 0 Havannah, per lb 0 16 0 .. 1 0 0 Chinsurah, per 1000 .. 1 10 0 .. 0 0 0 Alexandrian 1 10 Spirits (in bond.) 0 .. 0 0 0 Wine —Sherry, per pipe 28 0 0 .. 40 0 0 Ditto, per dozen 1 4 0 .. 2 0 0 Brandy —First quality, per galIon, in bond 0 5 0 .. 0 8 0 Rum —P. B. P., per gal. in bond 0 4 0 .. 0 5 0 Gin —Pale, in bond 0 3 0 .. 0 4 6 Cases, 4 gal. 4-5 in bond 1 2 0 .. 1 6 0 Arrack —Per gal. in bond .... 0 1 6 .. 0 1 9 Ale —In bottle, per doz. (none). Alsop’s, per hlul. (none). Brown Stout —per hhd 0 0 0 .. G 0 0 Porter —Dunbar, in bottle, per doz. (in demand, none) Live Stock. Mares —Brood 50 0 0 .. 90 0 0 Working Bullocks —Per pair .. 40 0 0 .. GO 0 0 Hire of ditto —Per day, a team and driver .. 1 0 0 .. 2 0 0 Sheep —Each 1 3 0 .. 1 8 0 Cows —Milch 20 0 0 .. 30 0 0 Poultry —Fowls, per pair .... 0 8 0 .. 0 16 0 Ducks, ditto Geese, each Tui’keys, each 1 0 0 .. 0 0 0 1 0 0 .. 0 0 0 1 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Pigeons, (wild,) per pair 0 0 0 .. 0 2 0 Ducks, do. do 0 5 Miscellaneous. 0 . 0 0 0 Eggs —Per dozen 0 4 0 . 0 0 0 Coffee —Java, per lb. (well supplied) 0 1 0 . 0 1 3 Candles —English wax, per lb.. 0 3 6 . 0 0 0 Mould 0 1 2 . 0 0 0 Dips 0 0 11 . 0 0 0 Flour —1st quality, per ton of 2000ibs. (heavy stock) 25 0 0 . 28 0 0 2nd ditto, (unsaleable). 13 0 0 . 18 0 0 Mustard —Per dozen 0 0 0 . 0 18 0 Muskets —Walnut stocked .... 0 0 0 . 0 15 0 Milk —Per pint 0 0 3 . 0 0 4 Oil —Linseed, per gallon .... 0 5 0 . 0 7 0 Black, in cask, per ton.... 16 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Sperm 75 0 0 . 90 0 0 Pickles —Assorted, per doz., quarts 1 1 0 . 0 0 0 Pitch —Stockholm, per barrel.. 0 0 0 . 1 15 0 Plank —Port Nicholson per 100 feet 0 Sugar —Mauritius, per cwt. (none). 0 0 . 1 1 0 Brown ditto, (heavy stock) 2 0 0 .. 2 2 0 Refined loaf, per lb. (scarce & in demand). 0 0 9 . 0 0 0 Manilla, per cwt 0 0 0 .. 3 0 0 Salt —Liverpool, per ton, (overstocked 3 0 0 . 4 0 0 Soap —Hawes’ London, per ton 30 0 0 . 0 0 0 Liverpool (heavy of sale) 26 0 0 . 0 0 0 Starch —Per lb 0 0 9 . 0 0 0 Scantling —Per 100 feet 0 0 0 . 1 0 0 Shingles —Per 1000, N. Z.. .. 1 0 0 . 1 7 0 Ditto, V. D. L 1 10 0 . 0 0 0 Tai —Coal 1 10 0 . 0 0 0 Stockholm 1 15 0 . 0 0 0 Tea —Hyson skin, per chest .. 0 0 0 . 10 0 0 Congou 12 0 0 . 0 0 0 Turpentine —Per gallon 0 8 0 . 0 0 0 Whalebone —Per ton 85 0 0 100 0 0 Boat Hire —Per day, without hands 0 10 0 .. 1 0 0 With hands .... 1 10 0 . 2 0 0 Wages —Mechanics, per week.. 2 0 0 . 3 0 0 Labourers 1 10 Rates op Freight. 0 .. 1 £ 16 s. 0 d. Valparaizo 2 10 0 Sydney 2 0 0 Nelson 2 5 0 Taranaki • 3 0 0 Akaroa 3 0 0 Auckland, London ' Exchange on Sydney. 4 0 0 Bank Bills, Thirty days after sight, 2 per cent, premium. On London, nominal. Private, nominal. • Duties. £ s d. On Spirits, per gallon, British .. 0 4 0 Ditto Foreign 0 5 0 Tobacco per lb. "1 Snuff, ” ” V Cigars, ” ” J 0 2 0 Tobacco, manufactured 0 1 0 Tobacco, 0 0 9