COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 877, 21 December 1888, Page 11

COMMERCIAL NEWS

Freeman R. Jackson and Co. report holding their Otaki sale yesterday week : Entries and attendance, moderate, the majority of the stock being disposed of after the anction. Two to 2J.year.old steers made £2 7s 6d ; heifers, 2Ss ; hoggets, 6s 6d. Laery and Co. report daring the last week :—Old potatoes, £B, scarce ; new potatoes, £7 to £lO ; onions, ljd per lb ; malting barley, 4s ; feed do, 3s to 3s 3d ; oats, 3s lOd to 4s ; pollard, £5 10s ; flour, £l2 ; oatmeal, £22 ; maize, 4s 6d to 4s 9d ; chaff,-£5 to £5 53 ; milling wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 6d ; vyhole fowls’ wheat, 4a ; hams and bacon, 6d‘ to 7d.; cheese, 4jd to sd,

factories not yet in full work ; fresh butter, 8d to BJd ; salt .do, 9d ; eggs, lid, • soarce, improving in value; Island oranges, 10s ; lemons/ Sa to 11s; mandarins, 9s to 13s; figs, 93 dates, sd, inferior ;do 4d ; walnuts, 6d to §d ; Brazil nuts, 9d; Barcelona do, 6d to 6Jd ; soft shell almonds, BJd to 9d ; preserved bananas, 7d ;' preserved pines, 20s to 22s per case of two dozen 21b tins ; crystalised ginger, dry, 6d to 7d; preserved ginger in jars, 13s to 14s per case;; imperial plums, lid per lb, 281 b tins chewing gum, 7a 6d per gross; monkey oocoauuts, Ss fid per gross ; ryegrass seed, 2s fid : cocksfoot, 3Jd, no inquiry for either ; other kinds of gra3s seed without alteration. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellingt on for the week ending Saturday amounted to £S7SS 7s lid. Baer duty, £l4l 19s lid. .> Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report:— As iwe anticipated a short time ago, we are exceedingly busy.' Owing to Christmas approaching, servants of all kinds aro demanded. Messrs Arthur War burton and Co. report on the. fjhare market for the week:— Sales—Bank of New Zealand (old issue) £8 10s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 10s ; Gear Meat,. 85s (cum div) ; Manawatu Railway, 10aNational Insurance, 19s 6d. Quotations—Banks ---Bank of New Zealand, sellers, £8 fid, new issue £6 2s 6d to £6 ss; Colonial,'sellers, 445, buyers 43s 6d ; National, 355.' , lusurance—New Zealand, sellers 80s (cum div); South British, 40s ; National, 19s-fid to 20s ; Union, 25s 6d to 26s ; Standard, 14s;6d to 15s ; Colonial, 4a ; New Zealand Acpident, 7s to 7s 6d. Miscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, sellers 735; Land Mortgage, buyers, 17s (cam div) ; National Mortgage, 11a ; New Zealand Shipping, sellers 40s ; Gisborne Gas, sellers 24s ; Moagiel-Woolleu, 73s ; Kaiapoi Woollen, 555-to-60s New Zealand Drug Company, 20s 9d ; Westport Coal, 52s ; Wellington. Gas, £IS, £9, and £2; Wellington Building and luvestment, sellers £6 ss; Equitable Building >(uew .issue) sellers 25s premium., ' ! : ■- I Messrs ArthurWarburton and Co. report the following, retains of amalgam from the Reefton mines, for. the week :—Keep-it-Dark, 2700z N from 185 tons; Globe, 2250 z from 190 tons. V George Thomas and Co. report a a quiet week in produce Tines, the extreme prices now asked, for leading lines greatly restricting and confining sales entirely to retail limits. Flour shows no further disposition to advance, and oats are stationary at last quoted rates. Large quantities of all descriptions of feeding grain and dairy produce are being forwarded to Australia, and each steamer leaving is' a full vessel ; in fact, the passenger accommodation is encroached upon for space. There is a danger of present stocks being utilised for shipment, and an eventual soarcityin'this Colony until harvest, but it must necessarily be of only short duration. We quote:—Gats,'4s; oatmeal, £2O; sheaf chaff, £4 10s ; straw do/“£3'-j • roller flour, £l2 10s to £l3 ; stone do, £ll lOsq bran £5 10a ; pollard, £5 10s ; feed barley, 3s 9d ; beans, 4s; maize, 4s 6d-; peas, 3s 9d ; new potatoes, £6 10s to £7 Tor round, and £8 to £8 10s for kidney samples ; onions, £l6 per ton for best sorts ; cheese, 5Jd to fid ; hams and bacon, BJd ; eggs; Is te Is Id per doz ; lard, 3d to 5d ; honey, 4d green peas, 8s per sack ; rhubarbj’4s 6d "per doz ; Nelson cherries, Ss to-10s ; red currants, 7s ; gooseberries, 3s 6d per half case .Sydney oranges, 12s to 16s per case / lemons,■ 8s to 10s ; apricots, 7s to 10s ; pears, 15s ; peaches, 10s ; apples, 8s ; Melbourne cherries, 11s to 14s ; plums, 7s. Tho poultry market is dull and prices very low. We quote—Fowls, 2s fid ; geese, 5s ; ducks, 3a 6d ; turkeys, 7s per pair. A shipment of American apples to arrive on Monday should find ready sale. Fruit is very scarce, and a strong demand exists for Christmas supplies.' -

WELLINGTON MARKETS.

Wholesale Brices. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE.

SHARE REPORT. MrD. T. Stuart reports , for the week to date :—Bank of New Zealand, £8 5s to £8 10s ; (new issue, £5 paid), £6 Is to £6 3s; Colonial Bank, 43s to 43s 9d; National Bank, 37s to 38s; Colonial Insurance, sales

4a3d ; National, sales 19a,Od'-; New Zealand, 76s to 79a ; South British, sellers 41s ; Stan, dard, 14a 6d to 14s 9d ;Union t 2ss 6d to 26a 6d ; National Mortgage, buyers 11s ; Loan and Mercantile, 71s Gd to 73s'; New Zealand Land Mortgage, 17s 3d to 17s ;9d; Locp.l Building Companies, -unchanged;; New Zealand Drug, 20s 3d to 20a 9d; Mosgiel Woollen, 765; Wellington Gas, shares unchanged ; Gear - Meat, 83s to 85s ; Kaitangata Kailway, sellers £l9 10s ; Keep-it-Dark, 38s to 395; Progress, 30s to 32s 6d ; Globe, 25s to 25s 6d.

JOHNSONVILLE STOCK SALE. Messrs Freeman K. " Jackson and Co., Johnsonville, ' stock report.:—The yards yesterday were well* tilled with stock. Some heavy cows came forward ; the rest of the beof was from inferior to good, and brought about 13s 6d the 1001 b- - Sheep were slightly lower than last week. Lambs were penned in full numbers; 'good fat lambs sold fairly well, but a large proportion of the entry were only, stores, which are not saleable at these yards.: Clients should be careful in their seleotiqn of lambs, sending only those that are fat. Pigs were easier, and sold at quotations below. Cattle -—One pair of best bullocks made £7 ; others, £5 5s to £6; averaging £5 10s Gd. Prize show cows from £6 2s 6d to £7 7s Gd ; inferior light bullocks from £4 2s 6d'to £5 ; mutton barely lfd. Sheep—Wethers, 10s 9d to 11s Gd; small light. wethers, 8s 5d to 9s; best ewes, 9s 8d to 9s lid ; inferior, 7s 5d ; fat lambs, 6s 9d to 8s ; stores, 3s Gd to 4s 4d. Pigs—Baconers, 30s to 40s; porkers, 23s to 27s ; stores, 10s to 16s Gd ; small pigs, 5s to Ssr

£ s. d £ s. d Milk, quart 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh lb - 0 0 8 to 0 0 9 Salt butter - - 0 0 0 to 0 0 9 Cheese, Col. t l 0 0 0 to 0 0 5 Eggs, dozen 1 ■ - - 0 10 0 to 0 0 11 Lard, lb: * ’ -V ; t 0 0 5 to 0 0 6 Bacon, lb. » . - 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Ham, lb. - 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Fowls, pair . •; - 0 3 3 to 0 3 9 Ducks, pair - . - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 JrSOBe, each , - . - 0 0 0 to 0 3 6 Turkeys, pair 0 7 0 to 0 8 0 Hat and Corn Market. a s. d £ s d Maize, Poverty Bay - 0 4 6 to 0 0 0 Cats, feed - - . - 0 3 9 to 0 4 0 Wheat do - * - 0 4 0 to 0 4 4 Carrots - - - 1 10 0 to 0 0 C Hay, ton 1 - . 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oaten, ton —■ - - 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton ' » 2 10 0 to 3 0 0 Chaff, — ’ - 4 10 0 to 6 0 0 Oaten hay - . - 4 0 0 to 0 0 0 Wheat straw, 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions - - 10 0 0 to 0 0 0 Potatoes, pertqn- . - 0 0 0 to 6 0 0 do hevr (scarce)8 0 0 to 9 0 0 Flour Market. ■ ' i" £ 8. d £ s. d Sharps, per ton - 0 0 0 to 5 0 0 Bran her ton, 4 10 0 to 5 0 0 Adelaide Flour, per ton 13 0 0 to 13 5 0 Colonial Flour - 12 0 0 to 0 0 0 Oatmeal 20 0 0 to 0 0 0 Pearl Barley 15 0 0 to 16 0 0 Seeds. '£ 8 d £ s. a Ryegrass, bushel ‘0 2 0 to 0 3 Cocksfoot, lb. 0 0 3 to *0 0 3£ 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 t2 0 0 0 Rape b. - 0 0 3 to 0 0 0 Linseed, percwt,' 0 16 0 to 0 0 0