Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 18, 29 July 1890, Page 4

Commercial News

Wellington, July 26. Learj and Co. report prices. for the past week : — Potatoes 50s to 555, oats Is 6d to Is 9d, pollard 808 bran 70s, oaten sheaf chaff 68s to 70s, oatmeal £9 10s, maize 3s, wheat 3s 4d, fowls' wheat 28 6d to 2s 9d, malting barley 38 liomiual, beano 3s to 3s 3d, peas 3s, pearl barley. £17, flour £9 10s, wheatmeal J6lO, bacon (Dimock's cure) 6£d, hams Bd, cheese 3|d to 4£d, eggs, Is 4d, turkeys 7s, geese ss, ducks 3b 6d, fowls 2a 9d per pair, figs 7a and 225, new dates 5Jd, old ditto 4£d, apples 5a 6d to Bs, Barcelona nuts, 9£d, peauuts 2d to 2£d, oranges, 7s to 8s 6d, lemons 8s to 10s, cock foot grass seed 3£d to *4d, salt butter 6d to 7d, fresh la pats, farmers' make 9d, factory made Hid, honey £3" to 4£d, rape seed 16a, onions 120s to 130s, seed potatoes £3 to £3 -s*. We take the following from the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s London circular, dated 14th June:.— "? Sew Zealand Hemp. — The market has been iuactive during the past month:, 'and iv view of the lower prices ruling for manila and sisal, it has generally been necessary to accept a decline of fully 20s per ton on previous rates ia order to effect sales, Kecent arrivals moreover have been heavy, and the stock in warehouse is now fully 1200 tons in excess of that reported on 30th April. Some 3000 bales have been brought forward at public auctions, of which about 2000 have been disposed of at and after the sales at from £15 to £16 per ton for very, ordinary half dressed, from £17 10s to £18 10s for common mixed •color and strawy, and from £19 to £'20 ,, for fair medium descriptions. Medium to good medium, well dressed fiOtts, hare realised from £21 to £23 per tan, and hackled tow from £15 to £16 per ton.,. Manila closes quiet, but it is fairly steady at £34 per ton on spot, and £33 10s to £34 per ton to .arrive c.i.f., while sisal is quoted at £25 10s per ton, ex quay Liverpool."