Commercial.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2015, 10 January 1887, Page 2

Commercial.

George Thomas Si Co. report produce prices as follows " There is a degree of uncertainty in staling whether the following quotations for tils leading lines of grain may bo looked upon ns permanent even for the current month, time is no doubt that large stocks of old season’s produce are still being held at southern ports, aud if these, in anticipation of low ruling values of the incoming grain ate force I upon the v at ions iinukeis, prices must reduce in a material manner. Wo hear, however, of luge ventures of all descrittions being made ~u the Ul.l Country, which if sufficient m bulk may counteract the probability of the various haul markets being overstocked, Wc quote ilour from Lll to Lll iffs ; fowls’ wheat, Is od to Is Id ; bran, LI U)s; pollard, L 5; wbeatmeal, Lll ; oats,

*hoit, 2a 4d ; common feed, 2s Id to 2s 3d ; oatim-al. 1/12 ; feed barley is rather scarce, au i iLilly worth 2s lid to 3s ; maize, 3s fid to 3s ltd ; beans, 3s 9J ; peas, 3s fid ; chaff from L 3 10s to L 5 ; old potatoes are still offering at 60s ; new samples (kidneys), L 5 10s; round, L 5 ; onions, L 9 ; prime Wairarapa and Gisborne cheese, 6Jd to 6£d ; honey, 5d ; hams and bacon, 6Jd to 7d ; farmers’ care, Id ; fresh butter, Sd ; salt do, nominally worth (id ; eggs, lid to Is per dozen. London, January 7.

Beat New Zealand frozen mutton is selling at 4|d. Melbourne shipments are realising 4Jd, and Sydney Jd less. Fifteen hundred bales of wool have been sold privately at an advance of Jd to }d on closing rates of last sales. Scotch pig iron is Is higher, 47s Australian greasy merino fleece wool is being sold privately at an advance of Jd to Jd on last sales’ closing rates. Sydney, January 7. New Zealand wheat is selling at 3s 9d per bushel ; oats, from Is 9d to 2s 3d ; maize, per Sfilbe, 3s lOd. There are no New Zealand puttaoes in the market. Melbourne, January 7. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, in their weekly report, estimates the surplus of the South Australia wheat crop to amount to 160,000 tons, and anticipates that a good business will be done in shipping Invebcabgill, January 7.

At the wool sales to be beld here on tbe 12th instant, about 3.000 bales of crossbred and merino will be offered.