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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8679, 13 May 1889, Page 2

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New Zealand Times Office, Saturday Afternoon. ■ The Customs duties collected at the port ol Wellington for the week ending Saturday amounted to £3995 6s lid. Beer duty, £lls 5a 6d. George Thomas and Co. report produce prices as follows Trade, for the opening of what may be termed a winter month, as far as produce is concerned, Is very quiet, zio speculative business being indulged in. We quote—Roller flour, £llloa to £ll 15a; stone do, £lO to £lO 10a; pollard, £5 15a } bran, £4 15s to £5; wheatmeal, £11; whplo fowls’ wheat, 3slodto4s; broken samples, 3a Cd to 3s 8d ; oats, 2s lid to 3s; oaten sheaf chaff, £4 10s; straw do, £3 ; oatmeal, £l4 10a to £ls; feed barley, 3s ; maize, 4s ; beans, 4s; peas, 3s 9d ; potatoes, £4; onions, nominally worth £l2 ; pearl barloy, £l9 ; split peas, 14s 6d ; hams and bacon, 8d; cheese, 4£d to s£d ; salt butter, 8d; fresh do, 9d; eggs, 2s per doz. No arrivals in quantity of fruit are to be reported. Apples and pears require to improve on pre. sent rates before shippers see any inducement to touch the market. Apples rule from 6d to 7s 6d; pears, 8s tolls; oranges, Island, 9a 12s ; walnuts, 7d » cheatnuts, lid per lb. Poultry continues dull at the old figures—fowls, 2s 6d; ducks, 3s ; geese, 5a 6d ; turkeys, 6s 6d per pair. Mr F. H. Wood reports;—The usual fortnightly stock sale was held at the Taratahi yards on Thursday, considerably more stock being yarded than was advertised. The average quality of sheep was good, for although there was no particularly heavy weights, there were at the same time no cdlls. The greater proportion of sheep were wethers, and prices on the whole showed an improvement on those realized at the lait sale. Lambs brought from 4a lOd to 6s 6d ; store wethers, 7s lOd to 8a , fat wethers, 8s 3d to 9a Id; breeding ewes, 6s to 7s Ipd ; fat ewes, 8s ; store eweS, 3s 6d to 5». There were only a few cattle yarded* and they sold at low prices. Horses sold at from £6 to £8

ss. Messrs Arthur . Warburton and Co. report on the share market for the week:—Bank of New Zealand. £8 to £8 2s j National, 37s ; Colonial, 42a 6d to 43* (id. Insurance—'New Zealand, 765; South British, 40s to 41s ; National, 18s fid to 19a ; Union, buyers 26s { Standard, sellers 14a j Colonial, 4a; Accident, 7s 6d. Miscellaneous —Loan and Mercantile, 68a Land Mortgage, sales 16s 6d; National Mortgage, 12s to 12s fid; New Zealand Shipping; sellers 65a ; Moagiel Woollen, 79a; Kaiappi Woollen, 60a cum dlv[; Now Zealand Drug, 20a; Wanganui Gaa, sellers £l2 10a cum div ; Wellington Trust and Loan, buyers £6 9s ; Equitable Building, £6 17s fid; Wellington Building and Investment, £6 ; Wellington Gaa, £l7, £8 10a, and £2; Gear Meat, sales and buyers 81s. Messrs Arthur Warbnrton and Co. report the following returns of amalgam from the Beefton mines for the week :—Keep-it-Dark, 31002 from 168 tons ; Globe, 2740 z from 190 tons. Messrs Edwards and Mcßeath report on thelaboar market;—Thereisaslight improvement since-last report, mostly for country servants. KAYE AND CARTER’S WEEKLY REPORT OP THE CHRISTCHURCH GRAIN AND PRODUCE MARKET. Wheat —Tuscan, 4s Id ; Pearl, 3a lOd. Hunter’s, 3a 9Jd to 3s lOd. Fowlwheat— Good whole, 2a sd; broken, 2a 9d. Oats—Milling, 3s ; bright short, 2s lOd ; duns, 2s 8d; Danish, 2s Bd, firmly held. Barley Prime malting, 4s 3d; good, 3slosto4s; feed, 3s4d; Cape,3s; pearl, £2O 10s. Peas —Prussian blue, 4s ; split, £l4. Beans —Good whole, 3s 6d; medium, 3a sd. Flour—Best roller, sacks, £lO 15s ; halves, £ll 5s ; quarters, £ll 10a; stone, £9 15s to £lO. Bran, 90a ; sharps, 105 s, soaroe. Oatmeal, (in 25'a), £l4; in-7’s, £ls 10s. Ryeoom, 3s Bd. Linseed, £l7- Rye-grass-Machine dressed, 3s fid to 3s 9d, scarce. Cocksfoot —Prime, 3£d ; good seed, 2|d to 3d. Oataheaf chaff £4 ss. Hay, oaten baled, £4 10s. Batter, IOJd, for prime qua’ity. Cheese —Loaf, 5Jd to 6d; medium, 41d to s|d. Hams,-9Jd ; H and B, 8d ; bacon, 7|d (cloth). Lard (in kegs), 4.d; in bladders, 4|d to sd. The above prices current are all f.0.b., Lyttelton ; sacks and packages extra except when otherwise specified. Business generally quiet. STOCK SALES. Chkistchukch, May 8. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report (per Mr E. G, Sfcaveley) as follows :—A.t Addington yards to-day there were full entries of stock. There wore about 9,000 sheep. Cattle market —improved bullocks, L6toL9 ; cows, IA to L 6 10s; beef, 15s to 18s per 1001 b. Fol lambs, declined, 3s fid to 6s; fat sheep maintained values ; prime crossbred wethers, 13s to 16s; extra heavy, 18s 6d; mixed sexes, 11s to 13a ; light weights, 8s 6d to 10s 6d ; mutton, 1-Jd to 2d per lb ; There was a fair demand for store sheep. Pigs easier, especially small sorts ; heavy weights, 31a to 50s. Dunedin, May 8. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report (per Mr D. Stronopb-Jv. as follows : - Cattle— 183 were yardedV b’&t bullocks, L 3 ssto LlO 7s fid

others, L4lss to L 7 12* 6d ; beef, ordinary, 15s to i7s 6d; prime, 20s per 1001 b. Sheepr-2962 were yarded ; best crossbred wethers, 12s 9d to 15a 9d ; others, 9s 6d to 12s 3d; best do ewes, 12s 6d to 14s; others, 8s to 11s 6d ; merino wethers, 6s to 9s 3d ; muttonj IJd tc 2d per lb ; 214 lambs, 6s 6d to 10a. Pigs suckers, 5a 6d to 10s; stores, 13s to 14s ; porkers, 28s 6d to 345; baooners, 40a to 56a; extra heavy, 60s to 68a each.