COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 937, 14 February 1890, Page 13

COMMERCIAL NEWS

Laery and Co. report sales for the past week as follows :—Potatoes, 65s ; onions, 68; oats, Is lOd to 2s ; pollard, 75s to Sss ; bran, 70s to 753; oaten sheaf chaff, 85s; oatmeal, £ll ; maize, 33 to 3s 4d, nominal; vheat, 3s ; fowls' wheat, 3s 9d; malting barley, 3s to 3s 6d ; beans, 3s ; peas, 3s ; pearl barley, £18; flour, £S 153 to £9 ; bacon, Dimock's cure, 7d ; hams, 9d ; outside cure hams and bacon, Id lower; cheese, 3£d to 4£d for large size ; loaf cheese, sdj; fresh butter, 7d to 8d ; salt ditto, 6d, nominal; eggs, Is ; turkeys, 7a ; geese,. 5s 6d ; ducks, 3s 9d ; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair ; figs, 7a to 22s ; dates, 4fd ; inferior sorts, 4d; apples, 2s 6d to 5a ; Barcelona nuts, 6Jd ; almond nuts, to 3Jd; oranges, 9s to 12s 6d ; lemons, 12s to 15s; cocksfoot grass seed, 2Jd; rye grass seed, 4s to 5s ; rape seed, 16s; meadow fescue, 100 s; pines, 4s 6d to 6s ; flax, £l9 to £2l. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £5851 0s 9d. Beer duty, £142 2a sd.

George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows :—During the past fortnight the grain market has shown no signs of life, and buyers await the opening values for new season’s produce, in the meantime purchasing only hand to mouth requirements. Flour is steady at £9 to £9 5s for roller, and £8 5s for stone process ; bran, £3 53 ; pollard, £3 10s ; wheatmoal, £8 10s ; prime short oats, 2s to 2s lid ; black seed, 2s 6d per bushel ; oatmeal, £lO 10i to £ll ; oaten sheaf chaff, £4 to £4 10s ; straw do, £2 15s to £3 ; feed barley, 3s ; maize, 3s 6d; beans, 3s 9d ; pean, 4s ; split peas, £ls ; pearl barley, £l9 ; ryegrass seed, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per bushel; cocksfoot 2fd to 3d per lb ; red and white clover, 85s to 90s per cwt; cheese, 4|d to 5d ; hams and bacon, 8d per lb ; honey, 4d to 4Jd ; eggs, in good demand at lid to Is per dozen ; onions, £6 to £6 103 ; potatoes, £2 15s to £3 10s. Poultry has been in limited supply, and prices are reviving ; fowls are fully worth 3s per pair ; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s ; geese, 5s 6d; and turkeys, Bs. The fruit market has been filled to overflowing from all quarters. Sydney descriptions command very low rates, while apples, plums, pears, and such like local productions are at values which cannot but leave heavy losses to skippers. Messrs Arthur Warburton and Co. report on the share market for the week :—Banks— New Zealand, old £5 15s, new £5 53 ; National, 37s ; Colonial, 42s 6s to 431. Insurance—New Zealand, sellers 65s ; South British, 32a ; National, 16s to 16s 6d ; Union, 26s 6d ; Colonial, 6s. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 65s ; Land Mortgage, 15s 6d; New Zealand Shipping, 70s ; Mosgiel Woollen, £4 ; Kaiapoi, 55s ; Drug, 19a 6d to 203 ; Wanganui Ga 3, £ll 10s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 10s ; Equitable Building (£2 paid' up), sales £3 12s 6d,£5 paid, £7 5s ; Wellington Building and Investment, £6 7s 6d ; Gear Meat, 9Ci ; Wellington Meat Export (fully paid up) sellers £5; Wellington Woollen, 45s ; Manawatu Railway, 12a 6d to 14s. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on the labour market : —There is a fair demand for domestic servants ; but we have work for from 50 to 100 men in the country. Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonville stock report :—Fat cattle came forward in usual supply, being both in quality and condition an improvement on late entries ; prices were firm at quotations. Sheep mustered numerously ; a lino of good wethers bad their average value reduced by a number of small ones that were sent forward in the lot. The remainder of sheep entered were from medium to indifferent, many of the ewes being unfit for the butcher. Shorn lambs, in good order, were well competed for ; the wooled lambs not being so good, met with a less ready sale. Bullocks, £5 2s 6d to £5 15s ; averages, £5 4s and £5 7a 4d. Sheep—Wethers, 10s ; others, 9s 6d ; light weights, Ss to 8s 4d ; ewes, 83 to 8s 2d ; others, 6s lOd to 7s 4d; lambs in their wool, 6s to 7s ; shorn, 5s 6d to 6s 9d. Ox beef made 13s the lOOlbs; wether mutton, If d to 2d ; ewe do, l£d. ,Mr D. T. Stuart reports on the share market for the week to date :—Banks— New Zealand, old issue, £5 7s 6d to £5 10a, new issue (course of sales), £5 Is, £5, £4 17s 6d, £4 18s ; Colonial, sales 435. Insurance—Colonial; sales 6s 3d, sellers 6s 4d ; National, buyers, 17s ; Union, 25s 6d to 26s ; New Zealand, buyers lss. Miscellaneous—New Zealand Shipping, 72s 6d ; New Zealand Drug, 19a 6d to 20s ; Wanganui Gas, £ll 10s; Wellington Gas, £l4 8s and £7 4s ; Equitable Building of Welling, ton, buyers £7 ex; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers £6 10s ex ; Wellington Building, £6 7s 6d ; Manawatu Railway, sales and j buyers 13s, sellers 14s 3d ; Gear Meat, buyers, 90s ; Wellington Woollen, sales, 445.

MASTER rON STOCK SALE. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Masterton, February 11. Over 8000 sheep of all classes were disposed of under the hammer at Lowes and liens’ sale to-day, the prices as under being an improvement on the previous sales : —Good breeding ewes, 6s 6d to Bs, medium, 5s to 6s, poor, 3s 6d to 4s 9d; fat lambs, 6s; store lambs, 4s to 5s 8d ; fat wethers,9s 6d ; fat ewes, 7s 6d to 8s ; store wethers, 8s to 8s 9d ; and cows, 12s 6d per lOOlbs. CARTERTON RAM AND EWE FAIR. (from our own correspondent.) Masterton, February 12. The sheep at the Carterton Ram and Ewe Fair brought good prices. Of the 650 penned all changed hands, either under the hammer or privately. In Lincolns, Mr J. Stuckey’s rams sold from £3 5s to £lO 10a ; whilst Mr P. C. Threlkeld, of Canterbury,

came next with £3 to £9. Mr D. McMasters’ brought from £2 5s to £7 10s. South Downs were sold at from £1 15s to £3, bred by Mr Reid, of Elderslie. Border Leicesters, £1 15s to £2 17s. Romney Marsh rams were disposed of at £2 to £2 2s 6d, whilst a lot of ram lambs brought 30s each. Breeding ewes fetched from 7s to 12s 6d. The attendance of buyers was large, and bidding spirited, especially in Lincolns. In other breeds the demand was not so keen.

WELLINGTON MARKETS Wholesale Prices, farm and dairy produce.

£ s. d. £ s. d Milk, quart 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 3i to 0 0 4i Eggs, dozen 0 1 0 to 0 0 0 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 G-pese, each 0 3 0 to 0 3 0 -Cucireys, pair 0 7 0 to 0 8 0 Hay and Corn Market. £ S. a. £ s d Maize, Poverty Bay - 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Oats, feed - 0 1 9 to 0 2 0 Wheat do - 0 2 6 to 0 3 6 Carrots 1 10 0 to 2 0 0 Hay, ton 3 10 0 to 4 0 0 Oaten, ton - 3 0 0 to 0 0 0 Straw, ton 2 10 0 to 3 0 0 Chaff, — - 5 0 0 to 0 0 0 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 2 10 0 to 3 0 0 Flour Market. £ 8. d £ s. a Sharps, per ton - 3 15 0 to 0 0 0 Bran per ton 3 10 0 to 0 0 0 Colonial Flour 8 15 0 to 9 5 9 Oatmeal 10 10 0 to 11 0 0 Pearl Barley 18 0 0 to 0 0 0 Seeds. £ 8 d. £ s. d Ryegrass, bushel . 0 3 6 to 0 4 6 Cocksfoot, lb. - 0 0 8 to 0 0 H 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 13 0 0 0 Rape, lb. - 0 0 2 to nominal Li nseed, per cwt. • 0 14 to nominal Meadow Fescue - - 0 0 0 to 0 1 0