COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 849, 8 June 1888, Page 11

COMMERCIAL NEWS

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday am ounted to .£3253 7s lOd. Beer duty, £IOO 16s 9d. George Thomas and Co. report au uninteresting market in produce for the week, and prices for all lines are withbut any change. Recent heavy withdrawals to the Melbourne and Sydney markets of oats have caused a firmness in this line, and a prospect of advance in present ruling rates. Several cheese factories have closed for the winter ; we look for an increase in the value of this article, which is now at its lowest extremity, scarcely covering expenses of making. Butter stili continue firm in the Australian centres, and is valued there at Is per lb for primest parcels. We quote :—Flour, £8 10s to£9 5s ; fowls’ wheat, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; bran, £3 103 ; pollard, £4 ; short oats, 2s Id ; long, Is lOd to 2s ; oatmeal, £9 5s to £9 103 ; chaff, £2 15s to £4; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lOd beans, 3s 6d ; peas, 3s 6d ; rye grass seed, 3s 6d ; r cocksfoot, rye, 3s 6d ; maize, 3s 9d to 3s lOd; pearl barley, 22s 6d ; split peas, 17s 6d ; cheese, 4d to 4£d ; hams and bacon, 7£d ; fresh butter. lOd; salt ditto, 7d; lard, 3Ad; honey, 4Jd to 5d ; turkeys, 7s 6d ; fowls, 2s 9d ; ducEs, 3s 6d ; and geese, 5s 6d per pair. The tariff proposal on fruit, £d per lb. will cause some trouble and confusion, and it would much simplify matters if the impost was collected at so much per package, say la per usual sized case ; there is no doubt that the protection of apples, pears, &c., will cause a diminution of consignments. Alessrs Edwards and Alcßeath say of the labor market:—There has been a fair demand for country servants, but situations in town are rather scarce.

Messrs Kennedy Macdonald and Co report the following sales auction . Ihe business promises in Moleswoi th-street, erected on land 30ft x 132 ft recon ly occupied by Mr A. Hickman and another, sold* to Mr George Leslie, as agent for J. H. Simmons, for £785. A parcel of shares m the Wellington Manawatu Railway Co., 20 shillings per share, paid up, sold to Mi P Messrs* 1 Arthur Warburton and Co. report for the woek Banks : New Zealand, £l2 5s to £l2 15s ; Colonial, 43s to National ok- Insurance —New Zealand, SOa , boutn Br'iiA sellers 42.; Natiooal, buyers 17s ; sellers 17s 6d ; Union,24s to -4s fid; Standard, buyers loj .6d, solilers 14s; Colonial, 4s ; New Zealand Accident Gs 6d. Miscellaneous-Loan and Mercantile Sis; Land Mortgage, sellers 21s. cum cliv buyers! 20s ; National Mortgage, 9s to 10s : Mosgiel Woollen, 63s to 70s ; Ivaiapoi, ooa ; New Zealand Drug, ISs ; Wanganui Gas. buyers £\2 ex div; Kaitangnta Coal, £l6 10s , Westport Coal, £2 7s 6d to £~ 5 Wellington Trust and Loau, buyers £0 5a , Equitable Building, buyers £6 lob ; Wellington Building and Investment, £5 los , M ellington Gas, £l9, £9 lOsand £2 ; Gear Meat, 655. Mr T) T Stuart reports for week to date : Banlcs-Bank of New Zealand, sales £l2 2s 6d, sellers £l2 7s 6d ; Colonial, sales, 43s 6d : National, sales, 36s 3d. Insurance-Colonial, buyers 4s, sellers ss; National, 17s to 17s 6d ; New Zealand, 79s to Sis ; Standard, buyei s, 13s 9d; South British, 40s to 41s 61. financial —National Mortgage buyers 9s Od ; Loan and Mercantile, SOs to Sis ; New Zealand Land Mortgage, sales 20s 3d cam; Equitable Building, buyers, £6lss j * ellington Trust and Loan, huyers, £6 ssi; Weilington Building and Investment, buyers, £5 S 15a ; Northern Land in Liquidation, buyers, 355. Gas-Wellington, sales (£lO, £l9, (20s paid) 40s ; Wanganui, buyers, £l2 4s; Napier, buyers, £l4; Gisborne, buj era 235. General-Gear Meat, sellers bos, and warrants £9O; Westport Coal, 4Ss. Gold shares—Big River, 10s to 11s ; Globes 34ai to 35s ; Inkerman, 4s to 4s bd ; Keep-it-Dark, 26s to 283 ; Nil Desperandum, 4s 6d to os ; Progress, sales, 20s and 20s Gd. PALMERSTON STOCK SALE. [By Telegraph.] (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Palmerston North, June 1. Messrs Stevens and Gorton report: - Our sale at Feilding yesterday was welt attended The entries comprised about 150 head of cattle and 3500 sheep. With the exception of one or two small pens we sold the whole of the stock yarded, but a slight decline was visible in most classes of sheep. Quo. tations-Fat cows, £3 15s ; dairy cows £4 ; store cows, 2Ss 6d to £2; weaners, 13s to 18s; fat wethers, 10s 3d ; store wethers, 8s Sd to 9s; dry ewes. 4s 6d to 7s 2d ; lamb, 5s lid to 6a 9d ; shorn lambß, 5s od to os 7d ; woolly lambs,-os 7d.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, June 2. Christchurch retail prices :—Fresh-buttor, 6d to 10d ; eggs, Is 9d; cheese, 4d to 7d; milk, 3d ; beef, 3d to 8d ; mutton, 2d to od ; pork, sdto 7d ; ham, 6d to lOd ; bacon, 6d to 9d. Wholesale produce prices-M heat, prime mUling, 2a 6£d; medium, 2s 6d ; oats, milhn = , Is 11s • bright short feed, Is 9d to Is 10 3 d , barley,’prime malting, 4, to 4s 4d ; prune medium 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; peas, blue Prnssian 2s 6d to 2s 7d ; potatoes, Qerwents, £1 to ti 2s 6<l ; onions, £2 to £2 15s; butter, prime, 5d to 8d ; cheese, small loaves. 3£A ; °^ er J?’? 09 ’ old to 3d ; hams and baoon, m cloth, o-£a to 74d ; flour, firsts, £7 10s to £8 10s. Live stock prices—Cattle, fat, 14s to 17s 6dl per 1001 b ; dairv cows, £o to £8 ; stores, two. year-old steers, to £2 ISs 6d; sheep, fat 14d to 21 d per lb ; fat lambs, 53 ; store wethers, 7s lid ; ewes, 6s to 7s ; lambs, 3s ; pigs, 34d to 33d per lb. Horses-unbroken colts, £9 to £ll ; plough horses. £l4 to £l7, spring-trap horses, good, £lO to £l2 , mediom, £5 to £8 ; hacks, £5 to £lO. . WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wholesale Prices, farm and dairy produce.

X AIV.'i. £ s. d. £ S. d Milk, quart , - .004 to 0 0 0 Butter, fra3h lb - . 0 0 10 to 0 1 0 Salt butter - . 0 0 6 to 0 0 8 Cheese, Col. .003 to 0 0 4 Eggs, dozen -00 0 to 0 2 0 Lard, lb. -0.04 to 0 0 5 Bacon, lb. • - 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Ham, lb. .007 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 6 to 0 5 6 Hay and Corn Market. £ s. d. £ 8. d Maize, Poverty Bay -00 0 to 0 0 0 Oats, feed - - 0 1 10 to 0 2 0 Wheat do - -026 to 0 3 3 CarrotB - 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 0 to 3 10 0 Chaff,— - -.3-5.0 to 4 5 0 Oaten hay - 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 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 , Floor Market. £ 8. £ 8. d. Sharps, per ton - - 3 10 0 bo 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 • -900 to 10 0 0 Oatmeal - 10 0 0 to 10 0 0 Pearl Barley - 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 SE1CD3. £ S. <1. £ *. d Ryegrass, bushel - 0 2 6 to 0 *3 6 Cocksfoot, lb. -003 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 C Cow Grass, lb. - - 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Timothy, lb. - 0 0 6 t; 0 0 0 Rapa ■ b. - 0 0 ,3 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. . 0 16 0 to 0 0 0