COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 791, 29 April 1887, Page 15

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Messrs George Thomas and Co report pro-; duce prices :—There are general complaints respecting the quality of the new flour as . a first-rate bread producer ; this is accounted for by the fact of the wheat having been harvested too early, and thus, not being quite ripe, a certain amount of moisture is still left in the grain, which causes weakness pit is to be hoped that this fault will not be found running through the whole season, but confined to present small stocks in millers’ hands. We are unable to note any difference in either quotations or demand for leading lines, and therefore repeat to a great extent last week’s quotations. Flour, L 1 0; fowls’ wheat, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; pollard, L 4 10s; bran, L 4 ; wheatmeal, LlO ; oats, short feed, 2s to 2s 2d ; Danish and Tartarian, Is lOd to 2s per bushel; oatmeal, LlO 103; samples of new grain feed barley just to hand are ruling from 2s 9d per bushel; maize expected daily, anticipated opening value being 4s per bushel; beans, 3s 9d; peas, 3s 6d; oiten chaff, L 3 10s; sheaves, L 4 10s; Oamaru potatoes, 52s 6d; Blenheim, 50s per ton ; onions, L 7 ; cheese, overstocked, 4£d to 5d ; salt butter, market glutted, nominal value 6d ; fresh, 6d to 7d per lb ; honey, 5d ; rye grass, 3s 6d; cocksfoot, 3|d per lb ; hams and bacon, factory cure, 7d ; farmers’ cure, 3d to 4d per lb; eggs, scarce at 2s 61 per dozen. With the exception of a shipment of oranges, lemons, pears, and apples, from Sydney, which: realised'fair prices, there have been no arrivals ? of fruits, and the market will be quite ready for usual Hobart consignments. Poultry remains very dull at following rates—fowls, 2s 9d to 3s ; ducks, 3s ; geese, 5s ; turkeys, 8s 6d per pair. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week :—Banks —New Zealand, Ll 7 5s ; National, 33s ; Colonial, 41s 6d. Insurance— New Zealand, 665; South British, 255; National, 13s to 13s 6d ; Union, 19s to 19s 6d; Standard, 103 6d; Colonial, sales, 3s. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 75s to 80s; Land Mortgage, 21s 6d; National Mortgagfe, 16s 6d ; New Zealand Shipping, SOs; Union Steam, Lll 15s ; Mosgiel Woollen, 70s ; Kaiapoi, SOs ; New Zealand Drug, 15s 6d ; Napier Gas, buyers, LI2 10s ; Wanganui Gas, sellers, Ll2 10s, cum div; Westport Coal, 27s 6d ; Kaitangata Coal, Ll 3 ss; Wellington Trust and Loan, L 6 7s 6d ; Equitable Building. L 6 10s; Wellington Gas, Ll 9, L 9 10s, and 40#; Gear Meat, buyers, 755. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report the following returns of amalgam from the Reefton mines f-r the week:—Keep-it-Dark, 3660za; Globe, 3120zs ; Just-in Time, 1790z5. r

(united press association.) Christchurch, April 2T. Retail prices :—Fresh butter, 7d to lod ; eggs, Is 2d; cheese. 5d to9d; milk, 4d ; beef, 3d to 8d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 74 } ham, 7d to lOd; bacon, 6d to 9d. Wholesale produce prices : —Wheat—Prime milling (new), 33 4d to 3s 6d; medium to good, 33 to 3s 3d. Oats—Milling, Is lOd ; bright ohort feed. Is 9d to Is 9|d. Barley—Prime malting, 3s 6d to 8s 8d ; medium, 3s to 3s 3d ; feed, 2s 4d to 2s 6d, Peas —Blue Prussian, 3s to 3s 6d. Potatoes— Derwents, LI Bs, at country stations ; kidneys, f.0.b., sacks in, L2 10s. Batter—Prime, 5s to 7d, Cheese —Small loaves, 5d ; other size, 4dL Hams and bacon—ln cloth, 6|d to 8d ; bare, 6d to Bd. Flour—Firsts, L 9 to 1.10. Fat cattle—Prime,. 17s 6d to 18s per 1001 b; middling to good, 15s to-16s. Fat sheep— Prime crossbred wethers, 8s 6d to 11s each ; fat lambs, 4s to sh. Horses —Draught, good ages, Ll 6 to L2O; light, Ll2 to L2O.

- Wholesale Prices. * FA KM AND DAIRY PRODUCE £ s. d. i £ s. d. Milk, quart 0 0 4 to' 0 0 0 'Butter, fresh lb - - 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 ■ Salt butter - - . 0 0 0 to 0 0 6 Cheese, Col..' 0 0 4 to 0 0 54 :Eggs, dozen . 0 2 0 to 0 2 6 Lard, lb. - 0 0 to 0 0 54 Bacon, lb. - ' - 0 0 6 to 0 0 0 Ham, lb. - . * - 0 0 7 to 0 0 0 Fowls, pair Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 0 0 ! 0 0 0 to 0 3 6 Geese,, each -• 0 2 6 to 0 3 0 Turkeys, each 0 4 0 to 0 5 6 Hay and Corn Market.’ £ s. d., £-.s. d. Maize, Poverty Bay none .. ' .. Oats, feed - 0 111 to 0 2 0 Wheat do - 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Carrots 2 0 0 to 0 0 0 Hay, ton 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton - - 4 0 0 to 5 0 0 Straw, ton 3 0 0 to 3. 10 0 Chaff,— - - 3 5 0 to 3.15 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to 4 10 « Wheat straw3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions, per cwt - - 0 6 0 to 0 6 6 Potatoes, per ton - 2 15 0 to 2 17 6 Floor M arket. : i Wholesale. £ s. d. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton - 4 5 0 to 4 10 0 a Adelaide, per ton - 11 15' 0 to 12 0 Bran, — - “ — 3 J5 0 to 4 0 o' Colonial Flour •> 10 0 0 to 10 0 o ■* Oatmeal . 10 10 0 to 10 15 0 Pearl Barley - r 15 0 0 to 16 ,0 o . Seeds. £ s. d. £ «. d Ryegrass, bushel - 0 3 0 to 0 3 9 Cocksfoot, lb. 0 0 3| to 0 0 Wt. Clover, lb. - . 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Red, do . 0 0 8 to 0 0 9 'Alsyke, lb. - - 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Cow Grass, lb. - . 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Timothy, lb. . O' 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