Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 98, 11 February 1890, Page 3

Commercial News

♦- WELLINGTON MARKETS. Wellington, February 8 Leary and Co. report sales for the past week as follows : Potatoes, 655; onions, 6s; oats, Is lOd to 2s ; pol lard, 75s to 85s; bran, 70s to 755; oaten sheaf chaff, BSs ; oatmeal, £1 1 ; maize, 3s to 3s 4d, nominal; wheat, 3s ; fowls' wheat, 3s 9d ; * malting barley, 3s to 3s 6d ; beans, 3s ; peas, 3s; pearl barley, £18; flour, £8 15s to £9 ; bacon Dimock's cure, 7d hams and bacon, ld lower ; cheese. 3£d ; fresh butter, 7d to 8d; salt ditto, 6d, nominal ; eggs, Is ; turkeys, 7s ; geese 5s 6i ; "ducks, 3s 9d ; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s per pair; figs, 7s to 225 ; dates, 4£d ; inferior sorts, 4d ; apples, 2s 6d f;o Ss ; Barcelona nuts, 6£d ; almond Viwts, 9£d ; peanuts, 3d to 3£d ; oranges, 9s to 12s 6d ; lemons, 12s to 15s; cocksfoot grass seed, 2£d; rye grass seed, 4s to ss; rape seed, 16s; meadow fescue, 100s; pines, 4s 6d to €s; flax, £19 to £21.,.-

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION-.) London, December 7. Six thousand "five hundred quarters of wheat, of January and February shipment, have been sold at 355. The butter market is depressed, and the market is glutted. For Australian there is a poor demand, fine is quoted at 106s ; medium quality, 80s. Sailed— B.M.S. Kaikoura, from Plymouth for New Zealand. At the wool sales, merinos generally realised from 5 to Ih per cent, below the December prices. Short faulty showed roost decline. Lambs and crossbreds were firm at December rates, foreign buyers taking 60 per cent. The English wheat market is firmer, the Continental steady, and the American changing a little for the worse. Tallow— Medium mutton, 23s 6d; ditto leef, 225. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following advice by cable from their London ofiice, dated the 7th inst:— Wool— Since opening the sales there has been an average ■decline of about 5 per cent on last sales* closing rates in merino. The •crossbred market is unchanged. For superior merino and crossbred lambs the market is very firm. The total -quantity catalogued "to date is 99,000 lia'es and the total quantity withdrawn to date is 16,000 bales. Tallow — The market has a downward tendency. " Good beef is worth 23s 3d per cwt<; mutton tallow unchanged. jFrozen meat — For frozen beef there as a rather better demand. New Zealand hemp — For common quality there is a fair trade demand. Medium , -quality is worth £26, and common ,£24 Ids per ton.