COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 860, 24 August 1888, Page 13

COMMERCIAL NEWS

Laery and Co. report sales daring last week as follow :—Derwent eating potatoes, 70s ; early seed potatoes, 100 s to 110 s; onions, 110 s to 120 s ; bacon, 6d to 7d ; hams, 7d to Sd ; cheese, 4d ; fresh butter, Is 2d to Is 3d; salt butter, 9d to lOd ; eggs. 9d to lOd ; oats, 2s Id to 2s 3d ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 8d; fowls’ barley, 2s 8d to 2s 9d; peas, 3a; beans, 3s 4d ; flour, £S 10a to £9 10s ; oatmeal, £lO to £lO IBs ; chaff, 70s to 75s ; bran, 65s to 70s ; pollard, 75s to 80s, with nsnal trade demand only. Fruit.—Apples, 8s to 11s; oranges, 4s 6d to 7s 6d ; man* darins, 9s to 12s ; lemons, 7s to 9s ; limes, 7s ; cocoanuts, 8s to 9s 6d, market steady. Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s pair; ducks, 3s 9d pair ; turkeys, 7a 6d pair, with good demand. There is no inquiry for cocksfoot or rye grass seed. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £7308 2s sd. Beer duty, £65 11s. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows .—The several leading lines of breadstuff's and produce remain firm at last week’s rates, which showed an increase on previously reported value. Oats are firmly held, and are esteemed good stock, in anticipation of further advances. Milling wheat has still a hardening tendency, but as yet the agitation in this line has not affected prices for flour, which are unaltered ; good whole fowls’ wheat is becoming scarce, though large quantities of inferior grain are offering. Prime potatoes are quoted locally at 75s ; we note that the Sydney market is a trifle easier, although rates are still on the same basis as previous telegraphic reports. Prime onions are now £5 per ton. Oatmeal firm at £lO 10s. We quote short oats, 2s 3d to 2a 5d ; long feed ditto, 2s 2d to 2s 3d; seed samples, 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; flour, £8 to £9; fowls’ wheat, 2s 6d to 2s lOd ; maize, 3s 7d ; pearl barley, 21s ; feed barley, 2s 9d ; beans 3s 4d ; peas, 3s 2d to 3s 6d ; pollard, £4 ; bran, £3 10a; split peas, 17s ; rye grass seed, 3s Gd ; Italian do, 3s 3d ; cocksfoot, 3Jd; fresh butter, active at Is 3d ; eggs, 9d ; cheese, 4d to 4§d ; hams and bacon, 7d ; honey, tins, sd; lard, 4£d; salt butter, lOd ; pastry samples from 3d to sd. There is very little doing in fiuit, and to quote at present prices would be misleading; we hope soon to see a revival in this branch of trade. Fowls rule from 2s 9d ; geese, 6s ; turkeys, 7s 6d, and ducks 4s 6d per pair. Mr F. H. Wood’s stock sale at the Taratahi yards on the 15th instant was largely attended, buyers being present from all parts of the Wairarapa district. About 2000 sheep and 200 head of cattle were yarded, mostly of a medium clas3, no heavy weights in either sheep or bullocks coming forward. Prices showed a slight advance on that obtained for stock of a similar class at last sale. The bidding was Bpirited, all lines selling under the hammer. Thefollowjng is a'quotation of the prices realised : Sheep-Fat ! ewes, 9s to 9s 7d ; ewes and wethers, I,osto 10s 4d ; mixed store sheep, for. ward, 9s 7d • ewes in lamb, 6s 9d to 8s 10d ; merinos, 3s 9d to 4s 9d. Cattle—Fat heifers,' 90s ; store and dairy cows, 50s to 80s ; steers, to 18 months, 31s to 5Ss; heifers, '303 jto 40s j oalves, steers 245, lioifsrs 225. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report:— Our business during the week has been principally with country .orders, Situations in poyvn are scarce. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Cc. report oy the week ;—Banks : New Zealand, sales £lO 15s; Colonial, buyers 44s ; National, sellors 37s 6d. Insurance—New Zealand, 80s i South British, Bellers 50s ; National, 19s 6d to 20s ; Union, sales 25s ; Standard, sellers 14s 6d ; Colonial, sales 4s 9d, buyers ,4s 9d; Accident, ,6s 9d to 7s. Miscellaneous Loan and Mercantile, 80s j Land Mortgage, sellers 20s, National Mortgage, bpyers 10s fid; Union Steam, £lO 15s; Mosgiel Woollen, 71s 5 Kaiapoi, 50s to 60s j Drug, sales 193 fid ; Westport Coal, ,56s ; Wellington Trust and fiioan, £fi 7 s > Equitable Building, £7 ; Wellington Building and Investment, £6 5s ; Wellington Gas, £l9 10s, £9 15s, and £2; Gear Meat, 70s ; Gear Warrants, £95. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report the following returns of amalgam from the Reefton mines for the weejt:—Globe, IGOoz from 190 tons ; Keep-it-Dark, 2400 z from 200 tons; Welcome, 2770 z from 35 tons ; Progress, 50oz from 90 tens. The barque Clan MoLeod, 671 tons, Captain Cameron, from New York (May 10th), brings the following cargo for Wellington ; —4 pkgß forks, 61 lawn mowers, 7 pkgs rakes, 18 oases shovels, 85 cases axes, 13 oases scales, 65 cases, 30 kegs nails, 1 pkg machinery, 82 pkgs ranges, 175 pkgs hardware, 10 pkgs pumps, 8 axles, 12 poles and

shafts, 102 cases carriages, G cases sewing machines, 11 bdls oars, 8 pkgs shoe pegs, 52 pkgs woodenware, 115 cases axe handles, 120 cases chairs, 215 cases turpentine, 56‘0 cases kerosene, 375 oases lubricating oil, 150 bales resin, 60 bales plaster, 17 cases slate, 3 cases bolts, 10 cases furniture, 44 oases fruit jars, 3 cases harness, 4 cases HH utensils, 2 cases oil clothing, 40 cases lard oil, 3 cases paper, 6 cases saws, 2 cases stone, 7 cases shade rollers, 3 cases, toys, 3 cases traps, 10 oases wringers, 40 pkgs grease, 16 bdls bags, 9 pkg 3 plated ware, 19 pkgs sundries, 13 bdls seed, 2 locomotives. Mr D. T. Stuart reports on the share market for week to date : —Banks—New Zealand, £lO 12s 6d to £lO 15s, sales £lO 17s 6d ; Colonial, 44s 3d to 44s 9d. Insurance Colonial, 5s to 5s 6d; National, buyers 19s; New Zealand, 803 ; Standard, 14s 6d ; Union, buyers, 255. Sundries—Union Steam, buyers £lO 15s, sellers £ll 2s 6d ; National Mortgage, 103 6d ; Loan and Mercantile, 80s to Sis ; Drug Company, 19s 6dto 20a ; Kaiapoi Woollen, 553 to 60s ; Wellington Building and Investment, sales £6 and £6 3s, buyers £6 ; Gear Meat, buyers 70s. Freemason R. Jackson and Co., Johnsonsouville, report :—We had a few pens of prime bullocks ; the rest were from medium to good ; the best line was marred, howevei, by some pens of light and indifferent cattle, consequently reducing what otherwise would have been a good average. A large number of sheep came forward, which sold at an advance on last sale’s prices. The spring lambs were well grown, and the pigs maintained.late rates with an unsatisfied demand. Beef made 15s 6d the 1001 b ; mutton, 2£d per lb. Cattle —The best line made from £5 7s 6d to £7 15s, averaging £6 15s 9d ; the other averages were £6 9u 7d, £5 17s, the lightest lot averaging £5 11s 6d ; fat calves, Us to 19s. Sheep—Best wethers, 15s 9d to 16s ; others, 14s 5d to 15s ; lighter sheep, 12s to 13s ; lambs, 10s 6d. Figs— Baeoners, 33s to 51s ; porkers, 18s to 2Ss 6d ; smaller sorts, 13s 6d to 17s.

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wholesale Prices. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE.

£ s. d. £ 8. d Milk, quart . 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh lb - - 0 1 0 to 0 1 3 Salt butter - . 0 0 7 to 0 0 8 Cheese, Col. 0 0 3 to 0 0 4 Eggs, dozen . 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 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 6 to 0 5 6 Hat and Cokn Market. £ S. d. £ 8. d Maize, Poverty Bay . 0 0 0 to 0 0 0 •Jats, feed • . 0 1 10 to 0 2 1 Wheat do - . 0 2 0 to 0 2 9 Carrots • 2 0 0 to 0 0 C Hay, ton • 3 0 0 to p 0 0 Oaten, ton . 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton . 2 10 C to 3 0 0 Chaff, — - . 3 5 0 to 4 0 0 Oaten hay - . 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Wheat straw . 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions per ton - . 5 10 0 to 6 0 0 Potatoes, per ton- - 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 Floor Market. 8. £ s. d Sharps, per ton - . 3 10 0 to 3 15 0 Bran per ton/ • 3 0 0 to 3 0 0 Adelaide Flour, per ton 12 0 0 to 12 5 Q Colonial Flour . 9 0 0 to 10 0 0 Oatmeal . 9 0 0 to 10 0 0 Pearl Barley - 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 Seeds. e s d £ s. a Ryegrass, bushel . o" 2 0 to 0 3 Cocksfoot, lb. • 0 0 3 to 0 0 4 Wt. Clover, lb. • • 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Red, do i 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 t2 0 0 0 Raps b. - 0 0 3 to 0 0 0 Linseed, per cwt. - 0 16 0 to 0 0 0