COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 946, 18 April 1890, Page 10

COMMERCIAL NEWS

WELLINGTON MARKETS Wholesale Prices.

Laery and Co. report prices for the past week : —Potatoes, 55s to 62s 6d ; oats, Is lid to 2s Id; pollard, 85s; bran, 70s; oaten sheaf chaff, 80s ; oatmeal, £ll ; maize, 3s to 3s 4d, nominal; wheat, 3s Id ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; malting barley, 3s to 3s 6d ; beans, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; peas, 3s ; pearl barley, £l7; flour, £8 15s to £9; bacon, Dimock's cure, 7d ; hams, 9d ; cheese, 3Jd to for large size ; eggs, Is 8d to 2s ; turkeys, 7s ; geese, 5s 6d ; ducks, 3s 9d ; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair ; figs, 7s and 22s ; new dates 5Jd, old ditto 4Jd; apples, 4s to 8s 6d ; Barcelona nuts, 64d ; almond nuts, peanuts, 2id; oranges, 3s to 6s 6d ; lemons. 17s to 18s ; cocksfoot grass seed, 3d to 3§d ; rye grass seed, 4s to 5s ; rape seed, 16s ; flax, £l7 to £IS ; butter, farm 6d to 7d, factory lid ; butter, salt 6d to 7d ; onions, 90s to 100 s. The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £6963 2s. Beer duty, £147 Us 6d. George Thomas ana Co. report produce prices £ as follows :—The grain market is fairly active, and in some instances prices show an upward tendency; oats are in active demand, and Australia is importing largely as a substitute for maize ; there is also considerable inquiry from same quarter

p—MBW H——II linn n ■ imirm for potatoes, which are now daily firming. Millers have raised quotations for bran and pollard by 15s per ton. Rye and cocksfoot grass seeds continue in demand at improved values. We report flour, roller £S 15s to £9 5s ; stone do, £S to £8 10s ; bran, £4 ; pollard, £4 10s ; whole fowl’s wheat, 2s lOd to 2s lid ; oats, bright milling 2s ; good feed, Is lOd to Is lid : black Tartarian, 2s 6cl ; oaten sheaf chaff, £3 15s to £4 ; straw do, £2 15s ; oatmeal, £lO to £lO 6s ; maize, 3s 9d ; feed barley, 2s 3d; pearl barley, '£18..; beaus, 3s 8d ; peas, 3s 93 to 3s lOd ; Derwent potatoes, £3 ; onions, £4 10s ; rye grass, machine dressed, 4s 10d to 5a ; cocksfoot, 3£d to 4d ; chee«e, to 5d ; fresh butter,“fid to 8d ; salt do, 7d ; egg=, Is fid to la lOd, scarce ; hams and bacon, t > Bd. The fruit market is glutted with Island oranges, which realise low rates. Apples have an improved demand, and there is general inquiry for dessert pears. Poultry is unaltered. Messrs Edwards and Mcßoath report on the labour market : —The demand for town places is greater for domestic seivants, and thero la a fair demand for the country. Messrs Arthur AVarburton and Co. report on the share market for the week :—Banks —• New Zealand, old buyers. 82a ; new buyers, 7Ss ; National, sellers 37s ; Colonial, 42s to 435. Insurance—New Zealand, sales 655, buyers 63s fid ; South British, 30s to 33s ; National, sales 16a 9d ; Union, sellers 26s fid ; Standard, buyers 13s fid , Colonial, Gb to fis fid. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 60s to 62s ; Land Mortgage, 14s ; National Mortgage, 10s 6d ; New Zealand Drug, 19s; Wanganui Gas, £ll 10s ; Hokitika Gas, sellers £6 10s ; Kaitangata Coal, buyers £l4 15s; Westport Coal, buyers 49s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers £6 10s ; Equitable Building, £7; Wellington Building, sellers £6 7s fid ; Wellington Gas, £l4 ss, £7 2s fid, and 28s 6d ; Gear Meat, sellers £5 ; Wellington Meat Export, £5 (fully paid) ; Manawatu Railway, 15s ; Wellington Woollen, sellers 355, buyers 30s. Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonville stock report.—The Bupply of fat cattle was below market requirements, quality fair, and weights, with the exception of a few animals, barely medium. There was a deoided Bpring in prices from the very opening of fully 3s the 1001 b over last market rates, closing firmly at ISs the lOOib. A few light but choice heifers shared in the advance at relatively the same rate. Of sheep there was only a small entry, almost wholly composed of ewes. The weight and quality ranged from indifferent to medium. Prices advanced at least Is per head upon late quotations. A small entry of pigs, all good sorts, sold on a par with recent prices. Bullocks, £5 28 fid to £7 ss, averaging £5 17s 9d to £6 6s ; heifers, £4 7s;fid to £4 10s. Shoep—Wethers, 11s lid ; ewes, 9s 3d to 10s 4d ; shorn la mbs, 6s 9d to 8s 2d. Ox beef, ISs. tho lC’Olb; heifer, 15s ; wether mutton, Mr D. T. Stuartreportsontheshaiemarket for week to date :—Banks —New Zealand, old issue, sales £4 5s and £4 4s, new issue, sellers 80s ; Colonial, 41s fid to 42s fid. Insurance—Colonial, sales 6s fid ; National, 17s to 17s 6d ; New Zealand, buyers 65s fid ; Standard, 13s 3d to 13s 9d, ex ; UnioD,2ss fid to 265. Financial—New Zealand Loan and Mercantile, 60a ; Land Mortgage, 14s to 14s fid ; Equitable Building of Wellington, sellers £7 ; “Wellington Building, sales £6 7s 6d ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 10s. Sundries —New Zealand Shipping, SOa ; New Zealand Drug, 18s 9d to 19s 3d ; Wanganui Gas, £ll 10s; Napier Gas, buyers £l3 15s, sellers £l4 ; Westport Coal, 50s ; Gear Meat, sales £5 ; Wellington Woollen, late sales 355, sellers, 42s ; Mana watu Railway, sales 15a ; Wellington Gas, £1.4 10s and £7 ss,

FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. £ B. d. £ s. d Milk, quart - - 0 0 4 to 0 0 0 Butter, fresh lb farm 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Butter, factory made 0 0 10 to 0 0 11 Salt butter - - - 0 0 7 to nominal Cheese, Col. . 0 0 4 to 0 0 4i Eggs, dozen - o i 4 to 0 0 0 Lard, lb. - 0 0 5 to 0 0 0 Bacon, lb. • • 0 0 6 to 0 0 7 Ham, lb. - 0 0 7 to 0 0 9 Fowls, pair - 0 2 9 to 0 3 0 Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 4 6 Geese, each - 0 3 0 to 0 3 0 Tuc&eys, pair 0 7 0 to 0 8 0 Hay AND Corn Market. 3j S. d. £ s d Maize, Poverty Bay 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Oats, feed - . 0 1 11 to 0 2 1 Wheat do - . 0 2 6 to 0 3 3 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,— - . 4 0 0 to 4 5 0 Wheat straw 3 0 0 0 0 Onions - 4 10 0 to 5 Potatoes, per ton 2 15 0 to 3 5 0 -- Floor Market. £ H. d £ s. d Sharps, tier ton - Bran per ton • 3 15 3 10 0 0 to to 4 0 0 0 0 0 Colonial Flour - - 8 15 0 to 9 5 9 Oatmeal • . 10 10 0 to 11 0 0 Pearl Barley - 17 0 0 to 0 0 0 Sbedb. £ . d £ H. a Ryegrass, bushel 0 3 6 to 0 5 6 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 t: 0 0 0 Rape. lb. r - - 0 0 2 to nominal Linseed, per cwt. 0 14 to nominal Meadow Fescue - 0 0 0 to 0 1 0