Commercial.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1859, 19 July 1886, Page 3

Commercial.

George jTbomas and Co. report produce prices this week as follows “ Transactions in grain and bedstufi lines have been con. fined to retail parcels, and. on the whole, ihere is not the slightest alteration in price or demand. Oats are firm at 2s 6d for fair and 2s 8d and 2s qd for best short samples. Oaten chaff £4. Flour has usual business at following quotations —£l2 10s for roller and £ll 10s for stone process ; milling wheat has no enquiry, but fowls’ grain of good quality is particularly scarce : we quote 3s Qd to 4s per bushel, according to sample. Bran and pollard steady at £g to £j. Barley (fowls), in consequence of (he scarcity wheat is in somewhat better demand, but prices remain at last quoted, 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Potatoes still maintain their increased demand at 75s per ton for prime samples. Onions, £ll to /n to* ; beans, 3s 6dto 3s qd ; peas, 4$ 6d : black oats, grass seeds, turnips, and bacon are overstocked at yd per lb all round, cheese, far from brisk, 6Jd ; salt butter, no sale, fresh butter, rod o is; eggs, is 4d per dozen. Poultry is dull at usual rates, and prices are unprecedently low for the seaton of the year. Stdnbt, July 16. New Zeeland wheat, 4s 3d per bushel; New Zealand oate, 2s 8d ; maize, per 5611>5, Seed. Adelaide, July 16. Shipping wheat, from Ss per bushel; Adelaide town floor, £ll 5s to £ll 10s per ton ; country brands, £lO 10s to £lO 15s per ton. Mblboubnb, July IS. The local manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand Ilimited, ’reports es follows Shipping wheat, 6s Id to 5a 2d per bntbel; malting barley, 3s 9d to 4s 3d ; oats, New Zealand feed sorts, 3s 2d to 3a 4d; milling descriptions, 3s 5d to 3s 7d ; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s fid to 2s 8d ; Sydney oats are steady at Ss Id to Ss 9d per bushel.

London, Juiy 15. Tlm {rosea meat ex the steamer Potoei is •anUsing 4{d per lb.