COMMERCIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8525, 3 November 1888, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

New Zealand Times Office, Friday evening.

Leery and Co. report sales for the current week Potatoes, 65s to 70s, with a downward tendency ; new potatoes, 9s ; onions, scarce, with ready sale at £8; oats, 2s 4d to 2s 7d, market steady ; pollard, 70s to 75a ;bran, 60s to 655, demand limited ; flour, £9l Os to £10; oatmeal, £ll to £ll ss; maize, 3s 3d to 3s Cd ; peas, 3s to 3s 6d, nominal, no demand; seed barley, 3s 6d; feed barley, 2s Bd, no demand ; milling wheat, 3s lOd to 4s; fowls' do, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; oaten sheaf chaff, 75s to 77s 6d; hams, 8d ; bacon, 6d to 6Jd; cheese, 4d to 4Jd, scarce, good demand; fresh batter, 7d to Bd, market well supplied ; salt do, 7d, nominal; eggs, 8d to SJd; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s; ducks, 3s 6d to 4s ; turkeys, 7s to Bs, scarce—all poultry in good demand; apples, 12s to 13s, in good demand, season nearly over; bananas, 3s to 3s 6d ; pines, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Sydney oranges, 7s to 10s ; island do, 7s 6d to 10a 9d ; naval do, 11s to 12s; Seville do, 8s ; lemons, 8s to 10s; mandarins lls to 13s; coodanata, 7s to 8» ; figs, t* 14s, according to weight; dates, 4|d to 5d ; inferior do, 4d ; walnuts, 6d to Sd ; Brazil nuts, 9d ; barcelonas, Cd to 6sd; soft shell almonds, 7£d to SJcl ; preserved bananas, 7d; preserved pines, 20s to 22s per case of two dozen 21b tins ; crystalised ginger, 6Jd to 7d ; preserved ginger in jars, 13s to 14s case; imperial plums, lid per lb; chewing gum, 7s 6d; monkey' oocoannts, 8a 6d; rye grass seed, 2s 6d : cocksfoot, 3Jd, no inquiry for either, other kinds of grass seed without alteration; green peas, lOd per peck; rhubarb, 10a per sack.

KAYE AND CARTER’S WEEKLY REPORT OP THE CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET,

Wheat—Tuscan, 4s Id; Pearl, 3a lid; Hunter’s, 3s firm. Fowl wheat—Good whole, 3a 4d to 3a 6d; broken, 2a Bd. Oats— Milling, 2a 4d; bright short, 2s 3d; good short, 2a 2Jd; dans, 2s Id; black, 2s Id; Danish, 2s l|d. Barley—Prims malting, 4s 6d ; malting, 4s 4d ; feed, 2s'Bd; Cape, 3a Id; pearl, £2O. Peas—Prussian blue peas, 2s lOd; white, 3s; dnn, 3s; split, £l4. Beans—Good whole, 3s; medium, 2a lOd. Flour—Roller, £10; stone, £8 10a and £9. Bran—7sa ; sharps, 755; pollard, 72a 6d. Oatmeal (in 25's), £lO 10s; in 7’s, £l2. Eyecoin, 3s fid. Linseed £l4 10s. Ryegrass —Machine dressed, 3a and Sa 3d; farmer’s lots, 2s 6d. Cocksfoot—Heavy dressed, 3sd; raedum, 3|d to 3Jd; seconds, li to 2d. Oat-sheaf chaff, ,£3ss. Hay (baled), £3 15s. Hops, Is, f.o.b. Nelson. Honey, 4d. White clover, 70s and 75a per cwt; red clover, 60s ; Aleike, 70s and 72s 6d. English cowgrass, 82a fid and 85s; Timothy, 455. Potatoes—Prime Oerwents, 60s to62s6d. Butter, 7d to 7id. CheeseLoaf, sd; medium, 4|d, firming. Hams, B|d ; bacon, 6|d; H and B, 7d. Lord (in bladders), 4Jd. The above prices onrrent are all f.0.b., Lyttelton; sacks and packages extra except when otherwise specified.