COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 844, 4 May 1888, Page 15

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £5043 17s< Beer duty, £99 6s 9d.

George Thomas and Co. repoft produce prices as follows : —lu oats there is an increased tendency to firmness, owing to the active operations of the Australian markets, and it is now almost impossible to obtain a quotation under Is 6d for good feed at Southern ports, and Is 8d to Is 9J for prime short Canadians j local values rule from Is 10Jd to 2s Id per bushel. The Sydney demand has also agitated the ruling rates for potatoes, pollard and bran, all of which show an upward change of 53 per ton all round. There have been a few inquiries for salt butter at 6d to 6Jd for local consumption. A fair volume of business is being transacted in Italian and perennial rye and cocksfoot grass seeds. Supplies of onions greatly exceed demands, and inferior samples are almost valueless ; good dry keeping descriptions command £4 per ton. Stocks of last sea« son’s hams and bacon are almost exhausted; and we look duringthe next fortnight for first parcels of the new cure. We quote—Flour, £S 10s to £9 ; fowls’ wheat, 2s 9d to 2s JOd ; bran, 70s ; pollard, 80s ; oatmeal, £9 53 ; chaff, £3 and £4 j maize, 3s lOd ; feed barley, 2s lOd; beans, 3s 6d ; peas, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; rye grass seed, 3a 9d to 4s ; Italian ditto, 33 6’d; cocksfoot, 3Jd to 4d per lb ; potatoes, 55s ; onions, prime, £4 ; pearl barley, 21s ; split peas, 19s ; wheatmeal, £9 ; cheese, 4d to 4Jd ; fresh batter, 7d ; salt ditto, 6d to G|d; hams and bacon, 7Jd ; honey, 5d (in tins); lard, 4d ; eggs, Is 8d per doz. A run of ill-luck has followed the fruit trade during the past week, the weather having been exceedingly unsettled and stormy; prices for the rather large shipments of apples from Hobart have been on a low grade, ruling from 4s 6d to 7s per case, with very little disposition on the part of the trade to purchase largely ; prices for the usual monthly shipment of bananas, &0., from Fiji, were also affected by the temporary depression in this branch of trade. Poultry is as follows :—Fowls, 23 6d to 2a 9d ; ducks, 3s 6d; geese, 5s 6d; and turkeys, Ss per pair. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the week:—Banks : New Zealand,, sales £l2 5s cum div, buyers £l2 5s ; National, sellers 355; Colonial, buyers 425. Insurance : New Zealand, 75s ; South British, 40s to 41s; National, 17s 6d to 18s; Union, 23s 6d to 245; Standard, 13s to 13s 6d ; Colonial, 4s 9d; Accident, 6s 6d. Miscellaneous: Loan and Mercantile, 72s 6d to 755; Land Mortgage, 21s; National Mortgage, sales 10s ; Union Steam, £ll ; Mosgiel Woollen, 68s cum div ; Kaiapoi, 60s ; New Zealand Drug, ISs; Wanganui Gaß, £l2 to £l2 10s cum div; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 ss; Equitable Building, £6 10s; Wellington Building, £5 15s ; Wellington Gao (£5 paid), sellers £9 10s, (£1 paid), sellers 40s ; Manawatu Railway, sellers 17s ; Gear Meat, sales 655, sellers 655. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath say of the labor market :—We cannot report much alteration since last week. There has been a fair demand, mostly for country servants. Freeman R. Jackson and Go. report on the Jobnsonville stock sale on Wednesday : The beef entered to-day was of medium quality and light weights. Prices improved on those of last sale ; tho bidding was fairly brisk throughout. The sheep penned were nearly all ewes, and made better prices. Pigs came forward. in usual numbers and maintained late rateß. Cattle. —Bullocks, £5 5s to £5 10s, average £5 Bs, or 14s to 14s Gd the lOOlbs. Sheep.— Fat ewes, 8s Id ; mixed sheep, light weights, 8s 5d to 8s 7d ; culls, 6s to 7s 2d. Pigs—* Baconers, 28s to 40s; porkers, 17a to 225;

stores, 11s 6d to 16s ' small pigs, 2s 6d to 6s. Mr D. T, Stuart reports for the week to date : —Bank of New Zealand, sales £ll 17s 6d, ex div ; Colonial, buyers, 42s 6d, sellers 43s 3d ; National, 35s to 365. Colonial Insurance, 4s 6d to 5s ; National, sellers 18s, cum div ; New Zealand, 73s to 75s ; Standard, 12s 9d to 13s 3d ; South British, 40s 6d to 4ls Gd, ex div ; Union, 24s to 24s 6d ; New Zealand Accident* sellers, 7s ; Union Steam, £1015s; National Mortgage, 9s to 9s 9d ; Loan and Mercantile, buyers 75s ; New Zealand Land Mortgage, sellers_ 20s ; Equitable Building, £6 10s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 5s ; Wellington Building and Investment, sales £5 15s ; Wellington Gas, £l9, £9 10s and 40s ; Gear Meat, 655. Geld, Shares—Fiery Cross, 13s to 14s ; Globe, £1 l4s Gd to £-i 15s 6d ; Inkerinan, 4s 3d to 4s 9d ; Darks, { JB‘s 0d to 29s 6d ; Nils, 3s to 3s 9d ; South Darks, 4s 6dtoss6d; Alpines, 9s to 10s; Welcomes, 10s to 12a ; Venus Extended, sales 7s 3d ; Progress (sales, 28th April), 20s and 21s ; Big Rivers (sales, 28th April), 14s.

WANGANtiI STOCK SALE.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION”, j Wanoanui, April 27.

Messrs Freeman R. Jackson and Co. report :—Tho entries of sheep have been large during the past fortnight. We sold nearly all that came forward at full values. Wethers have been in good demand, and lambs are still inquired for. Our sales of tiatfcle have been better since onr last report, afid a ! thclugh the sales show no improvement in values, the demand has been brisk. Pigs are dull of sale, and at redncSd prices. We have purchasers for really first-class hacks for export. We quote :—Sheep, at WaUga.nui—Store wethers, 8s lid to9s 7d ; others, 7s 6d to 8a 6d ; fat wethers, 9s 9d ; ewes of uniform quality, 3s id to 4s. Pigs—Large pigs, 28s to 35s ; porkers, 12s to 17s.

CHRISTCHURCH MARKETS.

(per press association.) Christchurch, April 2S.

Retail prices :—Fresh butter, 6d to 8d ; eggs, Is 9d ; cheese, 4d to 7d ; milk, 3d; beef, 3d to 8d ; mutton, 2d to 5d ; pork, 5d to 7d ; ham,- Gd to lOd ; bacon, 6d to 9d. Wholesale produce prices—Wheat, prime milling, Is lOd ; bright short feed, Is Sd to Is 9d; barley, prime malting, 4s Id to 4s 5d ; medium, 3s Gd to 3s 9d ; peas, blue Prussian, 2s 6d ; potatoes, kidneys, £1 15s ; onions, £2 to £2 15s ; butter, prime, 4d to 5d ; cheese, small loaves, 3ld ; other sizes, 2?jd to 3d ; hams and bacon, in cloth, io 7Jd; flour, firsts, £7 10s to £9.

WELLINGTON MARKETS,

Wholesale Prices. VARJI AND DAIRY PRODUCE,

£ a. d. £ s. d Milk, quart - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh lb - 0 0 74 to 0 0 9 Salt butter - - 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 Cheese, Col. . 0 0 3 to 0 0 4 Eggs, dozen - 0 0 0 to 0 1 8 Lard, lb. - 0 0 4 to 0 0 5 Bacon, lb. . 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Ham, lb. . 0 0 7 to 0 0 8 Fowls, pair - 0 2 3 to 0 2 6 Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Geese, each . 0 2 6 to 0 3 0 Turkeys, each 0 3 <5 to 0 5 6 Hay AND Corn Market. & s. d. £ 8. d Maize, Poverty Bay - 0 3 8 to 0 4 0 Oats, feed - -• 0 1 10 to 0 2 0 Wheat do * . 0 2 6 to 0 3 3 Carrots . 2 0 0 to 0 0 0 Hay, ton - 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton . 3 0 e to 3 10 0 Chaff,— - . 3 5 0 to 4 5 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to 0 0 9 Wheat straw - 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions, per ton - 4 0 0 to 0 5 0 Potatoes, per ton- - 2 0 0 to 2 10 0 Flour Marret. £ s. £ s. d. Sharps, per ton - - 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 Bran per ton, - - 3 0 0 to 3 0 0 Adelaide Flour, per ton 12 0 0 to 12 5 0 Colonial Flour . . 9 0 0 to 10 0 0 Oatmeal - . 10 0 0 to 10 0 0 Pearl Barley - - 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 Seeds. £ a d. £ 8. d Ryegrass, bushel - 0 2 6 to 0 3 6 Cocksfoot, lb. - - 0 0 3 to 0 0 4 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 b C Cow Grass, lb. - - 0 0 7 to 0 o Timothy, lb. - 0 0 6 t: 0 0 0 Rape b. ■ - 0 0 3 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. • 0 16 0 to 0 0 0