COMMERCIAL NEWS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 957, 4 July 1890, Page 24

COMMERCIAL NEWS

Laery and Co. report prices for the past week :—Potatoes, 50a to 52s Id ; oats Is 8d to Is lOd; pollard, 703; bran, 60s; oaten sheaf chaff, 68s to 70s ; oatmeal, £9 10s • _maize, 3s to 3s 2d ; wheat, 3s 43 ; fowls’ wheat, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; malting barley, 3s nominal ; beans, 3s to 3s 2d; peas, 3s; pearl barley, £l7 ; flour, £10; wheatmeal, £10; bacon, Dimock's cure, 7d; hams, 9d ; cheese, 3£d to 4£d; eggs, Is 4d • turkeys. 6s ; geese, 5s : dunks, fis • fowls* 2s to 2s 6d per pair ; figs, 7s and 22a; new dates, s£d, old ditto 4Jd; apples, 5s 6d to 88 ; Barcelona nuts, 6£d ; almond nuts, 9Ad • peanuts,2d to 2Jd; oranges, 6s; lemons, Bs’ to 10a ; oocksfoot grass seed, 3£d to 4d • salt butter, 6d to 7d; fresh butter, in pats’ (farmers’ make), 9d; factory made, il§d • honey, 4d to 4£d; rape seed, 16s : ’onions.’ £5 5s to £slos. - * The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £4829 10s. Beer duty, £54 7b sd. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows:—The only noticeable mature in a dull week has been the news from Sydney of a brisker demand for New Zealand potatoes, the conseanence of which I h&s immediately shown itself in the Wal. • hauroto, and wairarapa leaving with

cargoes, the greater proportion of whioh are potatoes. We hope they will not have • repressing effect on a somewhat aus, ceptible market. We quote bright short oats at la lOd to Is lid ; common to good feed, Is 8d to Is lOd; Tartarian seed, 2s to 2s Id; floor wove* off steadily at £9 5s to £9 15s for roller, and £8 10a to £8 15a for stone process; whole fowls’ wheat, 2s to 2s lid ; broken 2« 2d to 2s 6d ; bran, £3 10s ; pollard, £4~ ; wheatmeal, £9 ; maize, 3s to 3s 31 ; feed’ barley 2s 3d ; beans, 3s Sd to 3s 9d ; peas, 3s lOd to 4s; Derwent potatoes, £2 15s; kidney and fluke do. £4 to £4 10s ; peach blossoms, £3 10s ; Breeze’s prolific, £4 10s ; onions have taken an upward movement* and are now firm at £5 10s per ton ; grass seeds are uninquired for; oatmeal, £9 10s to £10; cheese, 4sd to 4Jd; hamß aud bacon, CJd to 7d ; fresh butter, scarce, Hd • salt do, Sd ; eggs have dropped to is per doz ; honey, The fruit market is, after a long reign of plethoric supplies, entirely bare ; good sound apples are in excellent demand from 7s per case, also dessert pears. Wo look for full supplies of oranges, lemons, cocoanuts, and pines, by Tekapo and Wainui on Alonday. Poultry is dull of sale, fowls realising 2s Gd, ducks 3s 6d, geese ss, aud turkeys 7s per pair. Messrs Arthur Warburtcn and Co. report on the share market for the week :—Banks New Zealand, new issue, sellers £3 17s ; old issue, sellers £4 5s ; Colonial, sellers 42s ; National, sellers 37a. Insurance—New Zea-’ land, sellers 71s, buyers 70a ; South British 28s to 30a; National, sellers, 16s 6d • Colonial, 5a to 5s 6d; Standard, 13a to 13s 6d. Aliscellaneous—Loan and Mercantile, 60s to 63s ; National Mortgage, 10s ; River Plate, 14s Cd ; New Zealand Shipping,’ 85s ; Moegiftl Woollen, 81s; Wanganui Gas, £l2; Drug Company, 19s 3d; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 12s 6d; Wellington Building, £6 7s 6d ; Equitable Building, £7 • Wellington Gas (£lO paid), buyers £l4 7s 6d ; Gear Meat, £5; Wellington Meat Export (£5 paid), sellers 955; (60s paid), sellers 555; Wellington Woollen, sellers 41s, cum div. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on the labour market:—There has been a fair demand for servants dnriug the week. Air A, W. Brown reports the following sales through his office for last week, viz : Aro street, 48 by S 5, to Mr G. Baker, for £115; Otaki, section 3, block 7, containing 245 acres, for £306 to Mr J. C. Sly ; Kai. tawa, section 4, block 7, 322£ aores, to Mr H. J. Richards for £322 IGa : land off Nairn street, 73 by 150, with house of six rooms, to Mrs M. Sullivan, , price not given ; College terrace property, known as Wiltoun Cottage, land 37 by 77, to Mr Charles Hale, for £360 ; section 1, block 8, Kaitawa, containing 364 acres, for £546 to Mr H. J. Richards. In addition to the above, Mr Brown arranged a building lease for 21 years of that triangular section, corner of Riddiford street and Adelaide road, to Mr W. C. Webb. Freeman R. Jackson and Co.’s Johnsonville stock report:—With few exceptions, the oattle yarded were indifferent, both in quality and weight, the quantity coming to hand being below expectations. Prices ruled much on a par with those of last market, inferior qualities a shade under. A full muster of sheep came forward, wethers filling almost exclusively all the pens occupied. The demand was not quite bo keen as of late, so that rate?, although firm, closed at a fraction per pound nnder late quotations. A moderate supply of pigs were woll competed for. Bulhcks—Best sorts entered, £5 12s 6d to £6 ; inferior, £4 2s Gd to £4 15s ; averages, £5 9s and £4 14s sd. Sheep—Prime wethers, 15s lid, 16s, 16s 3d; freezers, 15s Id; others, 13s 7d ; prime wes, 13s 4d; others, 12s 3d. Pigs— Baconers, £2 ; good do, 26a 6d to 30a ; large porkers, 23s 6d. Ox beer, I4s 6a to 15s; wether mutton, 2Jd per lb ; ewe do, 2£d. Mr B. T. Stuartreports ontheshaiemarket for week to date :—Banks—New Zealand, old issue, sales, £4 7s 6d, buyers £4 5s ; Colonial, sellers 425. Insurance—Colonial, sellers 5s 4d j National, sellers 15s 9d ; New Zealand, buyers 70s. Financial—National Mortgage, buyers 10s ; Land Mortgage, buyers 15s cum div ; Equitable Building, £6 Ids ex div ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £6 12s 6d cam ; Wellington Building, £6 7s 6d. Sundries—Wanganni Gas, buyers £ll, sellere £l2; Wellington Gas, £l4 7s Gd to £l4 10s cum ; Gear Meat, £4 17s 6d to £5. Messrs Lowos and lorns report at their Masterton stock sale on July 2 :—All classes of stock were well represented, and rates for both sheep and cattle were equal to last sale. Fat wethers, medium, 12s ; stores ranged from 10a 6d to lie lid : fat ewes, 10s ; breeding ewes, in lamb, be3t 8a 9d medium, 7s 6d ; lambs, ordinary, 5s ; beef cows, 60s to 77s 6d ; small bullocks, 80s ; stores, /5s ; medium, 60s; heifers, 45s to «oa ; yearlings, 30a ; weaners, 15s to 20s.

WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wholesale Prices. FARM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. £ e. d. £ s. d Milk, quart • 0 0 4 to 0 0 0J Butter, fresh lb farm 0 0 7 to 0 0 8 Butter, factory made 0 0 11 to 0 1 0 Salt butter * - 0 0 7 to nominal Cheese, Col. 0 0 4 to 0 0 4£ Eggs, dozen (fresh) • 11 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 8 Fowls, pair . - 0 2 6 to 0 3 0 Ducks, pair - 0 3 6 to 0 4 0 Geese, each • 0 3 0 to 0 3 0 Turkeys, pair 0 0 0 to 0 7 o Hay and Corn Market. a s. d. £ S d Maize, Poverty Bay 0 3 0 to 0 3 6 Oats, feed > • 0 19 to 0 2 0 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 C to 3 0 0 Chaff,— - • 3 5 0 to 4 0 0 Wheat straw . 3 0 0 Onions . 5 0 0 to 5 10 0 Potatoes, per ton - 2 10 0 to 2 17 6 Floor Market. £ B. d £ B. a Sharps, per ton - • 3 17 6 to 4 0 0 Bran per ton . 3 0 0 to 3 10 0 Colonial Flour • . 9 5 0 to 9 10 9 Oatmeal . 10 10 0 to 11 0 0 Pearl Barley . 17 0 0 to 0 0 0 Seeds. £ s. d. £ H, d Ryegrass, bushel . 0 3 6 to 0 5 6 Cocksfoot, lb. . 0 0 39 to 0 0 4 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. - - 0 0 2 to nominal Linseed, ner cwt. • 0 14 to nominal Meadow Fescue - - 0 0 0 to 0 1 0