Commercial.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1908, 29 November 1886, Page 2

Commercial.

George Thomas & Co report product prices this week as follows : " There it very little if auy improvement in the demand for grain, as green feed is now very plentiful. Floor is qnite without alteration, and the same may be said of oatmeal and pearl bar* ley. A better demand exists for prime parcels of bacon and bams I presumably in ( anticipation of Christmas requirements. Thin season’s cheese commands fair attention, and last year’s mak6 is now ruling at very low rates. We quote oats from 2s 4d to its 8d ; oatmeal Ll2 10s ; oaten chaff, sheaves £6. straw Li 10s ; flour Lll to Ll2 10s ; pollard Lsss ; brae, 6s; fowls' wheat, 4s 6d to 4s 7d, broken samples, 4s to 4s 3d ; feed barley, 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; maize, 3s 8d to 8s 9d ; beans, 3s lOd to 4s ; old potatoos|are enquired for, but the quality most he undoubted, at L2. The arrivals of spring products include new potatoes at 9s to 10s per cwt; green peas, Vji to 8d per peck ; rhubard. 3s 9dto 4s per doz ; gooseberries 2sd per qt; eggs. lOd per doz. Poultry is readily disposed of at following prices turkeys, 8s to 10s ; geese, 7s ; ducks, 4s ; and fowls 3s 9d pet pair.” Melbourne, November 28._

The New Zealand Loaa and Mercantile Agency Company held their uiual weekly sale this afternoon, and offered an important catalogue, comprising 4800 bales. The at* tendance of buyers was large and competition was brisk. The market shows an improve* ment on last week, and very full values were obtained. Greasy wool sold up to 13Jd, and scoured, which was in good demand, realised up to 19Jd. The washed fleece ol a Western district clip was a feature, and fetched H»td. Auckland, Nov. 36.

At Messrs Gunter and Nolan’s wool sale, the first of the season, there was an advance of a half penny per lb on the prices at Ur Buokland's sale lost week.

On Saturday at the Wellington Racing Club’s Spring Meeting Cock 01-the. Walk paid £i)3 6s as a dividend in the totahsator. It is estimated that no leas than 60,000 children will be thrown out of employment by the operation of the now factory law in the state of New York. No minor under 18 years or age. and no woman nnder 30 may bo employed in any manufacturing establish* ment for more tnan 60 boors a week, and the Act excludes employment in snob establish* menu of all children under 18. Printers have much to endure. A men* ing paper that has sub edited a cheap " ad. ” received the following laold complaint . Please iosnrt the above as it la roots dawn not alter it as it were last weak pleas. Tbit is how it was ” roate ’’.-A reepeeteU woman aged 47 as good plane cook tbnutworthey to eldy or small fanely good rollerene. addiee/' Ac. “ Just throw me half*a>doaeii ol the Mggset of those trout,” said a citizen to e fish dealer. “ Throw them f" queried the dealer. “ Ym, and then I'll go home and tell my wile that I caught ’em. 1 may ba a poor fisherman, bu| I’m no livt'l