COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 936, 7 February 1890, Page 11

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wholesale Piuces.

Laery and Co. report prices for the past week as follows : —Potatoes, 20s to 50s, according to qualities ; new potatoes, 60s to 70s ; onions, 6s; oats, Is lOd to 2s ; pollard, 75s to Sss ; bran, 70s to 755; oaten Bheaf chaff, Sss ; oatmeal, £l2; maize, 3s to 3s 4d, nominal; vbeat, 3s ;fowl3'wbeat, 3s 9(1 maltrng barley, 3s to 3s 6d ; beans, 3s; peas, 3s ; pearl barley, £IS; flour, £9 10s ; bacon. Dimock's cure, 7d ; hams, 9d ; outside cure hams and bacon, Id lower; cheese, 3Jd to 4£d for large size ; loaf cheese, sdj; fresh butter, 7d to Sd ; salt ditto, 6d, nominal; eggs, 9<? ; Iturkeys, 7s ; geese, 5s 6d ; ducks, 3s 9d ; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair ; figs, 7s to 22s ; dates, 4fd ; inferior sorts, 4d; applee, 2s 6d to 5s ; Barcelona nuts, GJd ; almond nuts, 9£d; peanuts, 3d to oranges, 9s to 12s 6d ; lemons, 12s to 15s ; cocksfoot grass seed, 2-^d; jye grass seed, 4s to 5s ; rape seed, 16s; meadow fescue, 1003 ; pines, 4s 8d to 6s ; flax, £l9 to £2l. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £5360 7s 2d. Beer duty, £lOl 5s 3d. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on the labour market :—We are very busy, especially with country orders, inen and female servants being in good demand. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report on the share market for the week :—Banks— New Zealand, new issue, buyers, £4 15s ; National, 375; Colonial, sales and buyers, 42s 6d. Insurance —New Zealand, sellers 65b ; South British, sales 31s 6rl ; National, buyers 16s ; Union, sellers 26s 6d ; Colonial, 6s. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 693 cum div; Land Mortgage, sellers 16a ; National Mortgage, lls ; New Zealand Shipping, 70s : Union Steam, £l3 ; Mosgiel Woollen, 80s ; Kaiapoi Woollen, sellers, 553 ; New Zealand Drug, buyers 19s, sellers 203 ; Westport Coal, 55s ; Wanganui Gas, £ll 10s to £l2; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 15s, cum div ; Equitable Building, £7 os ; Wellington Building and Invest-

mr.nt, £6 5s ; Mnnawatu Railway', sales 12s 64; Gear Meat, buyers S7s ; Wellington Woollo:-, 45s ; Weliiuuton Gas (£lO paid), sellers £ls cutn div ; Wellington Meat Export (£5 paid) sellers £5. Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonvilie stock report : -An average supply of cattle came forward. A portion was small and prims beef, the remainder varying from medium to inferior. A good demand existed, and batter qualities improved Is tae lOOlbs upon lato rates. For the first time on rec'tid neither sheep, pigs, n-'-r lambs were re; resented. Os beef made 13s to 14s the luOibs.

Mr D. T. Stuart reports ou the share market for the week to date :—Banks New Zealand, oil isoue, £5 10', new issue, buyers, £4 17s 64, sellers £5. Colonial, buyer , 42s Gd, seller?. 43s 34. Jnsorauie —Colonial, sales 6s 3A-4 ; National, ]6s 6d to 17s 3d ; Union. 25s 6d to 26*. Sundries—Wellington Building, sales, £6 7a 64; Uui-n -steam, sellers £l3, buyers, £l2 10s ; New Zealand Drug, 19i Gd to 20s ; Wellington Gae (£lO to £5 paid > £l4 83 to £7 4s, ex div ; Mauawatu Railway, buyoio, 12s Gd, sellers 14s 3d ; Gear Meat, 90a ; Wellington Woollen, sales, 445. Gold Shares Hercules Co., Reefton, sales 3lßb ulto), 2s 3d ; Inglewood, sales (Idt), 2s.

FARM AND DAIRY PROLUCK £ p. d. £ s. d Milk, rpiart 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh lb - 0 0 6 to 0 0 8 Salt butter - 0 0 7 to nominal Cheese, Col. 0 0 3-J to 0 0 4 \ Eggs, dozen 0 0 o" to 0 0 9 Lard, lb. 0 0 5 to 0 0 0 Bacon, lb. • 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Ham, lb. c 0 7 to 0 0 9 Fowls, pair 0 2 9 to 0 3 0 Ducks, pair 0 3 6 to 0 4 6 C-eese, each 0 .3 0 to 0 3 0 Parleys, pair 0 7 0 to 0 8 0 Hay and Corn M •ll( K WT. a fl. £ R d Maize, Poverty Bay - 0 3 o' to 0 3 6 Oats, feed - 0 i 9 to 0 2 0 Wheat do - 0 2 6 to 6 3 6 Carrots 1 lit 0 to 2 0 0 Hay, tori 3 10 0 to 4 0 0 Oaten, ton - 3 0 0 to 0 0 II Straw, ton 2 10 0 to :s o 0 Chaff,— - 5 0 0 to 0 6 ft Oaten hay - 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 Wheat straw 3 0 0 Onions 6 0 0 to 0 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Flour Makket. 4 K. d £ s. a Sharp3, per ton - - 3 15 0 to 0 0 0 Bran per ton - 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 Colonial Flour - 9 0 0 to 9 10 a Oatmeal - 13 0 0 to 0 0 0 Pearl Barley - 18 0 0 to 0 0 0 Seeds. 2 s. d. £ K. c Ryegrass, bushel 0 3 6 to 0 4 6 Cocksfoot, lb. 0 0 2 to 0 0 n Wt. Clover, lb. - 0 0 10 to 0 0 0 Red, do 0 0 8 to 0 0 g 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 Rape, lb. 0 0 2 to nominal Linseed, per cwt. 0 14 to nominal