COMMERCIAL.
-o New Zealand Herald Office, Thursday evening. To write commercial report in the absence of anything worth reporting is a task as uncongenial ai- it would be unprofitable. It may he briefly stated that there i- no visible improvement in trade, ami that the markets aie unaltered since last week. The execution of orders to the .Mailt?, for Ton_':i ami Samoa, with the usual requirements for the Fiji steamer, helped a little to counteract, the quietness of inland and coastal business. Maize is worth ."s (id : oats. '2s Id to 'Ji '2d : prime samples milling wheat, os Id: fowl wheat. ~s liKi : potatoes, £'2 to i- os per ton. Svdnev advices indicate an exceptionally low market as likely to rule this season for horse feed, but there is a tinner feeling in potatoes. Telegrams from China report .i fall in price of fundus. Buyers in Auckland now quote 3d to or per lb. I.i the local produce market, the prices remain the jvi'm- as last week. Tile wholesale price of best dairy butter is Sd per lb. and the retail price l"d. The "Shell" brand is 10tl per lt> wholesale, and Is per it) retail. Lg,s are Is per do/.en wholesale, and is oil per do<:eii retail.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9015, 30 March 1888, Page 4
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208COMMERCIAL. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9015, 30 March 1888, Page 4
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