COMMERCIAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 April 1890, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Wellington District. Stock.- Palmerston North: 2 2£yr steers, £2 8s; weaners, 13 s 6d ; milkers, £4. Bulls: Bullocks, £3 2s 5d ; forward cows, 55s ; cows and calves, 30s yearling steers, 20s to 265; mixed, 15s. ||Sheep.'—Fox ton; Wethers, from 8s to 8s 3d ; ewes, 4s 83 to 6s Id; woolly lambs, 5s 8d to 6s 4d. Palmerston North : 4-tooth wethers, 9s 6d ; wethers, 8s to 8s 6d ; Heaton Park Lincoln ewes, 8s 53 ; breeding ewes, 7s Id to 8s 9d ; fat ewes, 8s 3d ; woolly lambs, 5s to 5s 8d ; shorn, 3s 3d to 6s; empty ewes, 5s Id to 7s lOd. Bulls: Fat wethers, 10s Id ;4- and 6-tooth wethers, 9s 3d ;-2and 4-tooth, 8s 3d to 9s ; shorn lambs, 4s 9d. . Produce.— George Thomas & Co; • report produce prices as follows.: —The inclement weather of the past week has caused stagnation in the grain trade, and very trifling business has : been - transacted. We hear ofincrensed values for oats, potatoes, and feeding grain from Australia, in consequence of the heavy losses caused by the prevalent floods, and steamers are now leaving New Zealand ports with full cargoes, with every anticipation of a busy connection during the winter months. Flour remains unaltered at £9 to £9 5s for roller, and £8 to £8 5s for stone; whole fowl’s wheat is in demand at 2s lOd to 2s lid; bran, 75s ; pollard, £4 to £4los, scarce ; oats are much firmer, and quotations are from 3s lid to 2s id*’; sheaf chaff, £3 15s to £4 ; straw do, £2 15s ; oatmeal, £lO to £lO ss; potatoes have a steady outside demand, and are selling rapidly at £3; maize, 8s 9d • feed barley, 2s Cd ; onions, £4 10s ; beans, 3s 6d ; peas, 3s 9d ; pearl barley, £lB ; rye grass seed, 4s lOd to 5s 3d; cocksfoot, 3£d to Bfd; eggs, scarce, Is 9d to Is lOd for fresh descriptions ; fresh butter, 6d to 8d ; salt do.‘, 7d; cheese, 3d to 4fd ; haras and bacon, 7|d. Poultry is unaltered. The fruit market is still overstocked with oranges, and to-day large consignments of bananas are offering at low rates; apples rule from 4s to 6s, and pears from 7s to 13s per case.

Otago District.

Stock Market. —Horses: First-class draughts are fetching from £2O to £25, and medium from £l2 to £ls ; first class hacks, £l.O to £l7, and medium from £6 to £B. Carriage pairs from £4O to £6O. Cattle; Best bullocks, £7 5s to £8 X7s 6d; medium, averaging £5. Cows, from £2 10s to £5 10s. Wool Market.— The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated 10th instant.:—“ The sales opened this day at an average decline of 6 per cent, on last sale’s closing rates, except for fine cross-bred, for which the market is unchanged, and coarse cross-bred market easier. Competition of both Home and foreign buyers is fairly active, and the attendance of both is good. The total quantity available, including, wool held over from last series, is 470,000 bales, 85,000 bales of which have been forwarded to the manufacturing districts direct.”

Grain Statistics,

We are indebted to Mr J. White, Chief Enumerator for Marlborough, for the following particulars of land and produce of the district for the term 'ended February 28, 1890: County.—44 freeholds, 15 rented areas, 26 partial, total 85; 36 ’’"acres broken but not sown, 2 acres in wheat, witli 40 bushels estimated yield, 5 acres oats yielding 52 bnshels, I acre barley yielding 20 bushels, 1 acre name yielding i 0 bushels, 3 ac«*es peas yielding 77 bushels. Marlborough County.—49s holdings, 2026 acres broken out but not under crop, 6232 acres in wheat estimated to yield 165,581 bushels, bats 3072 acres for g’-een food, 4431 for grain only estimated to yield 155,957 bushels, barley 3879 acres to yield 91,116 bushels, rye 213 acres to yield 5042 bushels, peas 420 acres yielding 11,013 b’nhels. hems 36 acres yielding 160 5 bushels. . Ti ■ s ittistics of the not, crops, t. £rasßefly&Ci r sire as follows: |

Mounds County.—Sown grasses,.ll acres for hay or ensilage, estimated 1 to yield 16 tons, 182 acres in grass after being broken up, 12,077 acres: grass sown land not ploughed, produce of grass seed in bushels, 856 of cocksfoot, 56 of rye grass, 12 acres of potatoes yielding 60 tons, 31 acres in gardens, 27 in orchards, 1234 acres under crop horned cattle 1534 head, 427 breeding cows..

Marlborough County.—sßo acres of hay to produce 919 tons, 13 stacks for ensilage, 26,564 acres in grasses after being broken up, 52-,611 acres grass sown, not ploughed, 847 bushels cocksfoot, 453 iu rye grass; 848 acres in potatoes to yield 6257 tons, 1310 acres in turnips or rape, 113 acres in mangolds, beet, carrot, parsnips, or onions 3 acres hops yielding 85 cwt, 97 acres; in garden, 274 acres in orchard, 100,104 acres under crop, 580 adres plantations; crops remaining on hand from last year: in bushels, wheat 3490, oats 1090; barley 2970 ; horned cattle and breed-; ing cows respectively 6089; and 2237.