COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 764, 22 October 1886, Page 18

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending on Saturday amounted to L 3978 12s lOd. Beer duty, L 69 17s 9d. , „ Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices this week as follows : —The market is easier for every description of grain except wheat, and the demand has slackened considerably. Supplies of oats are far in excess of local requirements, and. although .present quotations show no alteration there is every prospect of a decline of Id per bushel or so in the near future ; prices rule from 2s 6cl to 2s 9d, according to quality. A considerable reduction in the ruling value of maize is imminent,, as we hear of large parcels on the water, which are for positive sale ; as the demand is limited prices may be expected to rule from 33 4d to 3s 6d per bushel for parcels. Old potatoes are quite a glut, and sales have been effected at sporting prices, say from 25s to 50s per ton ; for the time of the year samples are in very fair condition ; we note the arrivals of first consignments of the new crop, which are selling at 2Jd per lb. Onions remain scarce at Ll2 for good picked quality. The following lines are without alteration: —Flour, roller Ll2, stone process Lll 10s ; fowl wheat, 4s 6d ; bran and pollard, L 5; feed barley, 2s 9d to 3s ; pearl barley, Ll 7 ; beans, 4s ; field peas, 4s 6d ; Prussian blues, 5s ; chaff, L 4 10s ; hams and bacon, 7d ; farmers’ cure. 4d to 5d ; cheese, 6|d ; fresh butter, market overstocked, 4d to 8d ; salt do, no sale ; honey, 4d to 6d ; eggs, 9d, with prospect of id increase during comiug week. Poultry—Turkeys, 9s; ducks, 4s; geese, 6s ; fowls, 3s 6d per pair. Supplies of fruit have been confined to Sydney oranges and Fiji

bananas, pines and cocoanuts,which all realised* only moderate rates, the quality and condition to a certain extent being a bar to more satisfactory results being attained. • Messrs Cooper and Steward report wages as follows : Carpenters, 10s ; bricklayers, 12s ; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumbers and ' gasfitters, 10s ; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s ; laborand pick and shovel men, 7s; draymen, 42s to 50s ; coachmen, 30s to 35s ; grooms, 20s • to 30s ; storemen, 30s to 50s ; gardeners, 7s hotelmen, 20s to 40s; cooks, 25s to 40s> female do, 15s to 255; - housemaids, 12s to 18s j general servants, 9s to 15s ; nursegirls, 5s to 10s • barmaids, 25s to 30s; milkmen, 15s to--25s ; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s rwaitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to LSO ; married couples, L7O to L9O. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report forthe week :—Banks—New Zealand, Ll 9 10s toL2O ; Colonial, sales, 41s 6d ; National, sellers. 365. Insurance—New Zealand., sellers, 665? South British, sales, 255; National, buyers,. 14s ; sellers, 14s 6d ; Union, 20s ; Standard, buyers, 9s 9d ; Colonial, buyers, 4s 3d ; sellers,. 4s fid ; Equitable, Is Id ; New Zealand Accident, 3s to 3s 6d; Accident sellers, 3d. Miscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, 85s ; New Zealand Land Mortgage;, buyers 20s; National Mortgage, 17s 6d to .183fid ; New Zealand Shipping, 355; Umon_ Steam, Ll2 ; Mosgiel Woollen, 79s ; KaiapoK Woollen, 87s 6d ; New Zealand Drug,l4s 6d to 15s; Napier Gas, sellers, Ll 3; Wanganuß Gas, sellers, Ll 3. cum. div. ; Gisborne kGas,. sellers, 255; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers, L 6 7s 61; sellers, L 6 9s : Equitable Building, L 6 10s ; Northern Land and Loan*. 403 to 45s ; Wellington Gas, sellers, Ll 9 andi L 9 10s ; Gear Meat, sales, 70s ; Manawatu* Railway, 19s to 20s. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. reportthe following returns of amalgam from the Reefton mines for the week : —Welcome, Keep-it-Dark, 3360 z; Just-in-Time, 2480z£. Venus, 2200 z ; United Alpine, 3940 z. THE WOOL SALES We are indebted to Messrs Jacomb, SoiT and Co., wool brokers, of 61 Moorgate-street, 0 London,, for the following communication relative to the recent wool sales.:—“ The fourth series of public sales of colonial wools commenced on the 7th inst. As was to have been expected froml the general course of thev market since the close of last auctions here onthe 17th of July, great strength is now exhibited ; the attendance from all . parts islarger than ever before, and competition has! been proportionately spirited. Thus far an almost complete clearance has been made or all offered, and the second day’s sale fully maintained, and accentuated, the advance established at the opening, Thus far the Home--trade have taken about 51 per cent of ther quantity sold. Stocks of wool in all the seatsof consumption are very light, more especially so in the Home manufacturing districts. Ap compared with the closing rates of > July auctions, prices now rule, for Australian and New* Zealand grease merino, lid per lb higher;! merino washed fleece and scoured, fully 2d-;; finer crossbred, lid ; coarser, Id ; Cape and/ Natal grease, 2d ; scoured, 2id to 3|d. With, only a short supply visible in the immediate future, there should be little doubt of this; currency being well upheld for some months tocome. At the present rate of progression, thisseries is likely to'be materially curtailed from the 7th of October, as originally fixed.”

MESSRS FREEMAN R. JACKSON AND

CO’S REPORT. At Johnsonville to-day the yards were quite full of fat stock. The bidding was brisk: throughout, though the attendance, owing to the bad weather, was not as large as usualCattle maintained previous market value*. Sheep receded about 9d per head on late prices*. Pigs were in full supply and were well competed for. Bullocks brought from L 7 10s to L 8 5s ; medium quality, L 6 17s 6d to L 7 Set, Cows, L 5 to L 5 12s 6d. Sheep—Shorn wethers, 10s 5d to 10s 9d ; mixed sexes, 7s 6d to 7s'lid. Pigs—Baconers, 30s to 395; porkers, 20s to. 29s ; small pigs, 10s.

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wholesale Prices. farm and DAIRY PRODUCE £ S. d. £ s. <L Milk, quart - 0 0 4 to 0 0 5 Butter, fresh - unsaleable Salt butter - . ; unsaleable Cheese, Col. . 0 0 7 to 0 0 7h Eggs, dozen - 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Lard, lb. - 0 0 5Jf to 0 0 eh Bacon, lb. - - 0 (0 5£ to 0 0 eh Ham, lb. . 0 0 7± to 0 0 8 Fowls, pair - 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Geese, each - 0 2 6 to 0 3 0' Turkeys, each • 0 4 0 to 0 4 6; Hay and Corn Market. £ s. d. £ s. a„ Maize, Poverty Bay 0 0 0 to 0 4 0 Oats, feed - 0 2 8 to 0 2 10Wheat do - 0 3 9 to 0 4 3-. Carrots 2 5 0 to 2 10 0 Hay, ton 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Oaten, ton - 4 15 0 to 5 0 0 Straw, ton 3 0 0 to 3 10 0Chaff,— - 0 0 0 to 0 0 o Oaten hay 4 0 0 to 5 0 0Wheat straw 3 0 0 to 3 5 O' Onions per cwt - 0 11 6 to 0 12 6 Potatoes - glut and unsaleable Flour Market. Wholesale. £ s. d. ' £ S. <L. Sharps, per ton - 6 0 0 to 6 10 o Adelaide, per ton 11 15 0 to 12 0 0 Bran, per ton 5 10 0 to 6 0 O' Colonial Flour 11 10 0 to 12 0 0 Oatmeal 13 0 0 to 13 10 O' Pearl Barley 17 0 0 to 0 0 0 /, Seeds. £ s d. £ s. a. Ryegrass, bushel . 0 6 0 to 0 6 6 Cocksfoot, lb. • 0 0 0 to 0 0 Wt. Clover, lb. - . 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Red, do . 0 0 9 to 0 0 10 Alsyke, lb. - - 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Cow Grass, lb. - . 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Timothy, lb. - 0 0 6 to 0 0 0Rape, lb. . 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. - 0 16 0 to 0 0 0