COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9075, 8 June 1888, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Thursday evening. The Customs receipts to-day amounted to £1423 l(ss.

Interest in the tariffs effect upon prices lias been eclipsed by the fixing up of the new Kauri Timber Company, now of paramount importance as a potentiality in regard to provincial trade. Our other columns enter fully into the largeness of the undertaking. It is understood that each share will represent £10,000. The release of so much locked-up capital is expected to have a very beneficial effect upon the financial position. The import trade is all at sixes and sevens, owing to the upset of old established quotations, and much of the business done is now in good faith that the prices are a fair advance, many buyers not being in a position to calculate the ad valorem and primage duty. Transactions of a wholesale character arc limited. We hear of several sales of salt at a full price. A full line of sago has been placed at current rates.

Rice is in short supply, holders not caring to do much business at £13 10s in bond.

In dried fruits, prunes are in better request, and Elemes are somewhat firmer.

The enormous rise in the value of starch by the increased duty of £15 13s 4d per ton ought to satisfy the most ardent protectionist, and if starch factories are not established under such a tariff advantage, New Zealanders will have lost their enterprise. Kerosene has been placed in several wholesale lines, the White Rose brand being in strong demand. The winter consumption of cocoa has led to sales of Fry's in some large lots. Salt butter of good quality is sought after, and sales freely made at 7d. There is also a better enquiry for cheese. The sugar market presents no new features, except that China whites are being placed more freely. The opening of the China tea market meets with little observation. Good teas are exceedingly short, and in the face of a new season, few wholesalers care to buy at the present high rates, consequently the trade supply is somewhat of a makeshift character. Isew maize, very little is arriving, and more is required for immediate wants. The price for parcels in good order is 2s Id ; old maize, 3s 6d nominal. Southern potatoes, 555; local, 455. Fowl wheat, 2s 9d ; milling, local, 3s Id ; Southern, 3s 4d. Oats, bright feed, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. In the local market, the prices remain almost the same as last week. Eggs are Is per dozen wholesale and Is 3d per dozen retail. The best dairy butter is still scarce, and is worth Is per lb wholesale and Is 3d per lb retail. The *' shell" brand has advanced to Is 3d per lb wholesale. The Waikato " anchor " brand has been raised to Is 3d per lb wholesale, and the "Crown" brand to Is per lb wholesale. KAURI GUM MARKET. This market continues quiet and unchanged. Supplies for the month of May were 630 tons, and for six days of June, about 130 tons. We quote :—Fair ordinary, 31s to 325; best ordinary, 33s to 355; East Coast, 44s to 455. LIVE STOCK & PRODUCE MARKETS. AUCKLAND Messrs. Hunter and Nolan's Weekly Report. —Grain, Horse Feed, Seeds, Ac. : The market has been over-supplied, and the demand rattier slack, with but little alteration in value. Wo quote: Oats, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel : chaff, £2 to £2 IDs per ton ; carrots, 25s per ton. Horses : There has been an adequate supply, and but moderate domand ; those of pood stamp sold readily, but weeds were comparatively neglected. There was an average muster at the Durham Yards on Friday, but bidding was slow for most of the lots offered, which were scarcely good enough for requirements, and there remained an unsatisfied demand for good, upstanding young horses. We quote : Hacks, £4 to £15 5s ; lightharness horses, £6 to £10 IDs; heavy draught, £10 to £18. Wool, hides, skins and tallow : Above an averago quantity was pitched at the Durham Yards, on Tuesday, and bidding was brisk. Ox hides sold at from 4Jd to 4id per lb; cow, :Ud to 3|d ; calfskin, 4Ad to 5d per lb ; tallow, £12 10s to £14 per ton ; sheepskins, Is 9d to lis lOd each. Cattle : There has been an improved demand, and prices for grown store steers and fat beasts advanced markedly. The Newmarket yards, on Tuesday, and the Papakura, on Wednesday, were fairly supplied. Store stock have been in much better request, and the demand for steers was particularly active. Dairy cows, if young and at their profit, were also well competed for. Prices for fat beasts advanced fully 10s per head, owing to the number yarded at Newmarket being insufficient for requirements. We quote: Calves, 7s to 9s each ; yearlings, 0s to 10s; 18-month-old steors, from 20s to 25s each ; grown steel £2 Pis Cd to £2 17s 6d; dry cows, from 25s to 335; dairy cows, from £4 to £0 10s; springing heifers, £2 10s to £3 2s Cd; average obtained for fat cows, £2 15s to £4 ; steers, £6 ss, £0 9s Cd, £5 Is, £5 10s. Sheep: There was a very short muster at Newmarket on Tuesday, and were higher in value per stone, although 14s was the highest price obtained for wethers, and for ewes lis 9d. Lambs: Scarce, and sold at from 7s Od to 9s. Pigs : Short supply, but good demand. Mr. Alfred Buck land's Weekly Report.— At the Haymarket during the past week fodder has ranged from Is 6d to 2s 3d per cwt; straw, is per cwt; chaff, 45s to 00s ; carrots, 25s to 27s (id ; table potatoes, £2 15s; kidney potatoes (seed), £4 10s ; Donodust, £5 to £8 per ton ; oats, 2s 2d ; maize, 3s 3d per bushel. The horse sale, on Juno 1, was (consequent on the special sale of Messrs. l'ullou and Child's) the largost that has been hold for some months ; there was a numerous attendance, and improved prices throughout. Buggies and waggons ranged in price from £6 to £29 10s, and strong usoful horses from £6 to £10 each. At tho hide and skin sale on Tuesday prices were well sustained Ox hides ranged up to 4Jd ; cow hides, 4|d ; calf skins, 5d per lb ; tallow, 14s per cwt; station skins, from Is Oct to 3s 10d each. At Waiuku, on Saturday, June 2nd, a small muster of stock sold fairly well, fat cattle being equal to Remuera valuos At Remuera, on Thursday, dairy cows sold freely, and last week's values were fully sustained ; useful cows, near calving, ranged from £6 to £0 ss. Store cattle were also in demand. Fat cattle, in full number, wore on the whole better worth than last week, but quotations can scarcely be altered. Cows, from lis to 13s; steers, 13s to 10s the lOOlbs were the prices ruling. Sheep, in average number, obtained a further aldvance of 2s. Fat wethers ranged from 14s to 17s; lambs, 9s to 12s; store lambs, shorn, 7s each. Pigs, plentiful, maintained their price, particularly heavy weights, suitable for bacon curing. Messrs. G. W. Binney and sons' Report.— Large catalogue of hides and sheep skins cleared. Prices for prime and heavy ox, firm ; prime, 4jd to 4jd ; heavy, 4Jd to 4Jd ; medium, 3|d to 4d ; heavy cow, 3Jd to 3jd ; modiuni, 31d ; light, selling at a fall of id per lb; kips, 3Jd to 4d ; calf, 4d to 4j<l per lb ; prime green ox, 28s to 35s ; heavy, 23s to 25s ; medium, Ids to 21s; heavy cow, 16s to 20s ; medium, 12s to 14s; light, 8s to 10s each. Sheop Skins: Market brisk ; best salted, 3s Cd to 4s; medium, 3s ; light, 2s to 2s 4d ; lambs', 2s to 3s Od each ; dry. Is Od to 4s 3d ; salted shearlings, 9d to Is ; dry, 2d to 6d. Tallow : Market dull; from 10s to 13s per cwt. Bones : Firm at £4 10s per ton. THAMES CATTLE MARKET. Messrs. Banks and Co.'s Weekly Report.— [By telegraph.] At Parawai, on Wednesday, fat cattle were plentiful, but there was a good demand, and prices were higher than for several weeks. Steers made from £4 15s to £7 17s 6d each; heifers from £2 15s to £4 12s Od, being equal to from 13s to 14s per 1001 b for the latter, and 16s to 18a for the former. Sheep were in moderate supply, and last week's prices were maintained, ewes selling at 9s to 10s each ; mixed sexes, lis 3d. A small lot of lambs made 7s 3d. STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland, June 7, 1888.

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