COMMERCIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 907, 19 July 1889, Page 11

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Laery and Co. report prices for the past week:—Potatoes, 80s to Sss ; onions, none in market; oats, 3s to 3s 3d ; pollard, £5 10a to £5 15o; bran, 90s to 95b; oaten sheaf chaff, 80s to 90s; straw chaff, 555, oatmeal, £ls 10a ; maize 3s 9d, nominal ; wheat, 4s to 4s 4d ; fowls' wheat, 3s 6d, nominal; malting barley, 3s 9d to 4s : beans, 3s 9d to 3s lOd ; peas, 3s 6d to 4s ; pearl barley, £18; flour, £9 10s to £10; bacon, Dimock's cure, 7£d; hams, cure hams and bacon, Id lower ; cheese, 4Jd to 5d for large size ; loaf cheese, to 6d ; freah butter, 9d to lOd ; salt butter, 7d, nominal; eggs, Is 7d; turkeys, 6s 6d ; geese, 6s ; ducks, 3s 6d ; fowls, 2s 6d to 28 9d per pair ; figs, 7s ; dates, 4|d’; inferior sorts, 4d ; Barcelona nuts, Gd ; almond nuts, 9d; peanuts, 2sd; apples, 7s 6d to 10s; pears, 9s to 14s ; oranges, 5s 6d to 7s ; lemons, 16s to 18s; cocksfoot grass seed, The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £3766 163 7d. Beer dutv. £59 7s.

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows :—There has been an active demand for potatoes during the week, which have advanced quite 10s per ton, and prices rule at £5 for Oamaru and £4 10s to £4 16s for other descriptions. Oatmeal has receded slightly, and we quote £ls to £ls 10s per ton. Onions are very scarce, and any small parcels procurable readily command £IS per ton. Oatß remain firm at 3s 3s to 3s 4d for bright feed samples ; Danish and Tartarian, 3s 2d to 3s 3d. Fowls' wheat, good whole samples 3s 7d to 3s 8d ; broken do, 3s 4d. Maize, 3s lOd to 3s lid. Feed barley, 2s 10d ; seed barley, 3s 6d. Beans, 3s lid to 4s; peas, 3s lOd to 3s lid. Flour moves off slowly at £lO 15s for roller, and £lO per ton for stone process. Wheatmeal, £lO 15s per ton. Cheese, 4£d to 5Jd according to quality. Hams and bacon, Sd per lb. Fresh butter, 9d to 101 b per lb ; this is an improvement of Id per lb on last week’s prices. Salt butter remains without inquiry, and is nominally worth 8d per lb. Eggs are very scarce, and find ready sale at Is 9d per dozen. Fruit.—Owing to the cold and boisterous state of the weather the demand has fallen off considerably. We quote Sydney oranges, 5s 6d ; mandarinß, 13s ; lemons, 16s ; and pines, 15s per case ; apples, 7s to 10s per case. To-day’s shipment of bananas realised 2s to 3s 6d per bunch. Poultry are unaltered ; fowls, 2s 9d ; ducks, 3s 6d ; geese, 5s 6d ; and turkeys, 6s per pair. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report °n thejjhare market for the week New old £B, new issue £7 10s to £7 15s ; National, sellers 38s; Colonial, sales and buyers 445. Insurance—New Zealand, 70s to 72a 6d ex ; South British, sellers 395; National, 17a 6d to ISs ; Union, 265; Standard, 14s cum div; Colonial, 4s lOd to ss; Accident, 7s 6d. Miscellaneous—Loanand Mercantile, 675; Land Mortgage, 17s; National Mortgage, 12s to 12s 3d ; New Zealand Shipping, sales 60s ; Union Steam, £l2 to £l2 ss; Mosgiel Woollen, 795, Kaiapoi, buyers 60s ; Drug Company, 20a ; Wanganui Gas, sellers £ll ; Westport Coal, 45s to 475; Wellington Trust and Loxn, buyers £6 5s ex div ; Equitable Building, buyers £6 15s (ex div; Gear Meat, SOs ; Wellington Gas, sellers £ls 5s ex div, (£5 paid) sellers £7 12s 6d ; Manawatu Railway, sellers 15s. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report the following return* of amalgam from the Reefton mines for the week Keep-it-Dark, 4120 z from 185 tons ; Globe, 2500 z from 190 tonß.

Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on the labour market: —The demand is a little less than last week.

Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonville stock report : —Rather above the average supply of beef was yarded, consisting of bullocks and cows. With the exception of a small consignment of lightweight steers, the bullocks were an improvement upon late supplies, and were in good demand. The small steers met with little competition. The cows were a fairly good lot. The demand, however, was weak, and we were compelled to pass the line in, but succeeded in placing them afterward at a slight advance. The sheep pens held about the same as last week, and again were all wethers, ebiefly of an uneven and inferior

lot. Those showing any quality sold readily. No vealers or pigs came to baud. Bullocks, £4 15s to £5 7s 6d, averaging £5 ; light steers, unchanged, £3 5s ; cows, £2 12s 6d to £2 15s. Sheep—Wethers, 13s 6d to 15s 81 ; small and light, lls. Ox beef made 12s 6d ; inferior, 10s ; cow do, 10s the lOOlbs respectively. Wether mutton, 2f l per lb. Mr D. T. Stuart reports for week to date — Bank of New Zealand, old issue, sellers £S, new issue, £7 12s 6d ; Colonial, 43s 6d to 445; Colonial Insurance, buyers ss; National, buyers 17s 6d, sellers 18s ; New Zealand, buyers 74s ex; Standard, buyers 14s ; South British, sa lers 40s ; Union, 2os ex ; Now Zealand Accident, 7a 6d to 8s ; New Zealand Shipping, sellers £3 ; National Mortgage. 12s ; Now Zealand Drug, 19s 01 ; Mosgiel Woollen, 79s to SOs ; Wanganui Ga 3, ill ; Equitable Building, £7 ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 7s 6d ; Wellington Building and Investment, last sales £6 7s 6d cam ; Wellington Gas (£lO paid), £ls 5s ex, £5 paid), £7 12s 6d ex ; Manawatu Railway, 13s 6d to 15s ; Gear Meat, buyers SOs, sellers S2s ; Wellington Woollen, buyeis 31s, sellers 32s ; Keep-it-Dark Gold, buyers 35s ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, 65s to 67s 6d ex. WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wholesale Priues. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE.

£ s. d. £ 8. d Milk, quart - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh 3b - 0 0 9 to 0 0 11 3-alt butter - 0 0 8 to nominal Cheese, Col. 0 0 4£- to 0 0 Eggs, dozen 0 1 7 to 0 1 8 Lard, lb. 0 0 5 to 0 0 6 Bacon, lb. • 0 0 tu 0 0 n Ham, lb. c 0 7J to 0 0 h Fowls, pair 0 2 9 to 0 3 0 Ducks, pair 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 O-sese, each 0 3 0 to 0 3 0 Parleys, pair 0 6 6 to 0 7 0 Hay and C'OKN Makket. a s. d. £ s d Maize, Poverty Bay 0 4 0 to nominal Oats, feed. - 0 3 0 to 0 3 3 Wheat do - 0 3 10 to 0 4 4 Carrots 1 10 0 to 0 0 C Hay, ton 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,— • 3 15 0 to 4 5 0 Oaten hay - 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 > Wheat straw 2 0 0 to 0 0 0 Onions 22 0 0 to 23 0 0 Potatoes, per ton4 ’ 5 0 to 4 10 0 Flo ok Makket. i s. d £ s. Q Sharps, per ton - 5 15 0 to 6 0 0 Bran per ton, 4 15 0 to 5 0 0 Colonial Flour 10 0 0 to 10 10 0 Oatmeal 0 0 0 to 15 10 0 Pearl Barley 18 0 6 to 19 0 0 Seeds. £ s. d. £ R. d ftyegrass, bushel . 0 2 0 to 0 3 Cocksfoot, lb. - 0 0 2 to 0 0 Wt. Clover, lb. - - 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 R,ed, 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 Haps, lb. - 0 0 2 to nominal Linseed, per cwt. * 0 14 to nominal