COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 772, 17 December 1886, Page 19

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MABKETS.

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending on Saturday amounted to L 5729 os 3d. Beer duty, L 135 14s 2d.

Messrs George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows : —Flour, Dll to Dl2 ; fowl wheat, broken 4s 3d, whole 4s 6d ; pollard, D 5 10s ; bran, L 5 ; wheatmeal, Dll 10s ; short Canadian oats, 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; common feed, 2s 2d to 2s 5d ; oatmeal, Dl2 10s ; oaten chaff, scarce, D 4 10s ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 3s ; maize, 3s 7d to 3s lOd ; beans, 3s lOd to 4s ; field peas, 4s ; old potatoes, D2 5s to L2los, demand now virtually over; onions, old samples are almost valueless, as the quality is very inferior; a few cwt of the new season’s have been placed at l}d to 2d per lb ; hams and bacon, 7d ; farmers’ cure, 4Jd to 5d ; honey, 4d to 6d. The following may be accepted as correct current quotations for dairy and garden produce : —Fresh butter has only limited inquiry at 6Jd to 7d per lb; a few kegs of newly-potted butter is offering at 8d j eggs, fairly brisk at lOd to lOJd; cheese, fid to 6Jd ; new potatoes have fallen to 5s percvt, in consequence of the competition now existing between the local product and usual consignments from Onehunga; green peas are steady at 5d to 6d per peck; goose-

berries, 2d to 3d per quart; rhubarb;- 33 6d to 4s per doz. A fine demand has been experienced for fruit throughout the week, prices being on the highest scale, taking in consideratirin the quality and condition, which in some instances were very unsatisfactory. Oranges ruled from Ss to 13s; lemons, 6s to 12s ; mandarins, 7s to 12s; pines, 10s tolos. per case plums, 9s to 11s.; apricots, 7s to 12s ; pears, 5s to 7s; cherries, 5s to 9s per half-case ; bananas, sa'to 10s 6d ; cocoanuts, 8s to 9s ; peanuts, 3d per lb ; fowls, 3s 9d ; ducks, 4s; turkeys, 9s; and geese, 7s per pair. ' Messrs Cooper and Steward report wages as follows:—Carpenters, 10s; bricklayers, 12s; painters and glaziers, 9s ; plumbers and gasfitters, 10s ; blacksmiths, 9s to 10s; labor and 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 25s ; housemaids, 12s to 18s ; general servants, 9s to 15s ; nursegirls, 5s to 10s ; barmaids, 25s to 30s ; milkmen, 15s to 255; farm hands, 15s to 25s ; boys, 5s to 12s; waitresses, 15s to 20s ; laundresses, L3O to LSO ; married couples, L7O to LIOO. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week :—Banks —New Zealand, sellers Ll 7 10s; National, 35s ; Colonial, 425. Insurance—New Zealand, 655; South British, sellers 31s ; National, sellers 14s, buyers 13s 6d ; Union, sellers 20s fid ; Standard, buyers 10s 3d; Colonial, sellers 4s 6d; Equitable; Is; New Zealand Accident, 3s 6d. Miscellaneous—Doan and Mercantile, 80s ; Land Mortgage, 21s; National Mortgage, 18s fid; New Zealand Shipping,' 30s to 355; Union Steam, Ll2; Mosgiel Woollen, 765; Kaiapni, 80s; New Zealand Drug, 15s to 15s 6d; Napier Gas, Ll 3; Wanganui Gas, Dl2 10s ; Kaitangata Coal, Dl3; Westport, 15s; Wellington Trust and Loan, D 6 8s fid; Equitable Building, L 6 10s; Wellington Gas, Ll 9 and L 9 10s; Manawatu Bailway, sellers, 19s. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report the following returns of amalgam from the Reefton mines for the week : —United Alpine, 3150z5; Keep-it-Dark. 3570zs ; Just-in-Time, 90ozs; Globe, 1550z5; Welcome, 2530zs ; Venus, 120ozs ; Fiery Cross, 2520z3. Laery and Campbell report prices as follows :—Since our last quotations of the Bth instant a consignment of Melbourne cherries and plums have arrived, the former realising from 13s to 16s per half case, and the latter as high as 11s 6d per half case. Sydney has also sent her quota in the way of oranges (12s), lemons (12s), mandarins (12s), cherryplums (7s), pears (12s to 15s). Hobart has also been represented, arid we think for the last time so far as apples are concerned, this season— Sturmer pippins, 15s, French crabs, 12s per case. Nelson is hardly yet to the fore, although cherries and gooseberries have arrived pretty freelr. Fiji has sent some lovely, tropical fruit in the way of pines and bananas, the latter supply being far.below the demand ; and peanuts, 3d ; cocoanuts, 9d to Is. The'market is bare of preserved bananas. The 40 cases of oranges which arrived from Auckland this morning fetched 12s per case. There is no alteration in the price of feed, except oats, which may be quoted ’at 2s 6d for good samples. Bran and pollard stocks are in good supply at 5s and 5s lOd respectively. New potatoes have fallen considerably owing to the influx of the local growth; Derwents, L 5; kidneys, L 5 10s. Onions, locally grown, are coming forward in small quantities. Many inquiries are made for poultry in anticipation of the coming season. Fowls, 3s 3d to 4s : ducks, 4s to 4s 6d ; geese, 7s to 8s ; turkeys, 9s, 6d per pair. Messrs Freeman B. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonville stock report :—Our sale yesterday was well attended by the trade and others. Both cattle and sheep still remain at 'low values ; beef and mutton were of the best quality ;,one line of, heavy bullocks fattened by Mr John Hair of Waverley were purchased by Messrs McKerrow and E. Barker, from D 8 10s to LlO per head. Some of the pens of sheep are large heavy animals, but prices are quite inadequate, and cannot possibly pay the producer; Pigs were fairly well represented, but with no alteration in values; Lambs were well competed for, over 80 head being sold at the quotations. We sold some first-rate draught horses and hacks. Prices were as follow: —Cattle.— heavy Christmas bullock, L 8 10s and DlO ; others, D 6 to L 7 10s ; cows, L 3 10s to L 5 ; Sheep.—wethers, 8s to 9s 2d ; ewes, 6s lOd to 7a 2d; lambs, 6s lid to Bs. Pigs—Porkers, 13s to 15s 6d; larger sorts, 25s to 34s ; stores, 9s 6d. Horses. —Heavy draught horses 20s to 26s 5d ; hacks L 4 toLIO, and one superior animal D2O. Some horses were turned out unsold.

Wholesale Pbices FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE £ s. d. £ s. d. Milk, quart . 0 0 4 to 0 0 5 Butter, fresh - unsaleable Salt butter - • unsaleable Cheese, Col, 0 0 6 to 0 0 6J Eggs, dozen . 0 0 10 to 0 0 11 Lard, lb. - •- 0 0 54 to 0 0 6| Bacon, lb. - . -, - 0 0 54 to 0 0 64 Ham, lb. - - . 0 0 7i to 0 0 8 Fowls, pair 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Ducks, pair •- 0 4 0 to 0 4 6 Geese, each - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Turkeys, each . - 0 4 6 to 0 5 0 Hay and Corn Market. £ B. d. £ s. d. Maize, Poverty Bay 0 0 0 to 0 3 9 Oats, feed * 0 2 6 to 0 2 8, Wheat do - 0 4 3 to 0 4 9 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 0 Chaff,— - 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to 5 0 0 Wheat straw 3 0 0 to 3 5 0 Onions per cwt - 9 10 0 to 10 0 0 New Potatoes, per cwt 0 5 0 to 0 5 6 Flour Market. Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton - - 5 10 0 to 6 0 0 Adelaide, per ton . 11 15 0 to 12 0 0 Bran, per ton - 4 0 0 to 4 10 0 Colonial Flour . 11 10 0 to 12 0 0 Oatmeal. . 12 10 0 to 13 0 0 Pearl Barley . 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 Seeds. £ s. d £ s. d. Ryegrass, bushel 0 6 0 to 0 6 6 Cocksfoot, lb. . 0 0 0 to 0 0 34 Wt. Clover, lb. - . 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Bed, 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 0 Rape, lb. . 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. - 0 16 0 to 0 0 0