Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 88, 23 January 1892, Page 2

Commercial News

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Antwbbp, January 22. "■ At the wool sales 3500 baler from Biver Plate, and 1200 from Australia, were among those 'catalogued. The 1200 from Biver Plate Bold at a decline of afarthmg on the prices realised at lan series. Competition was fairly spirited. -\ London, January 22. The arrivals for the woolauctions are . small, and it is expected that the November prices will be maintained. ' " Wellington mutton, 3sd; beef, hindquarters, 4£d ; forequarters, 3§di Adelaide wheat, 44s 6d, market quiet, Victorian ditto, 445, business restricted. Factory butter, £6; prime dairy, £o 6s, market full. Complaints are general about bad packing ana irregulitt weighing* :.. Iti / , bYDNET, Janaaty 22. V The preliminary report of the7sbv,ern<« ment Statistician on the wheat harvest is to the effect that it is, generally Speaking disappointing. The yield . ! is ; ieiramated at 3,900,000 bushels, giving an average of 12f bushels per acre. It is estimated the colony will bare to import iSf to 4 million bushels. -i <: The Wellington branch of r tibj Key Zealand Loan and Mercantile! ' Agency Company (Limited) report on ,tpe pro* dace markets for the week end wg Wed<» nesday, 20th January, as follows'?— 4 *. ' '■' Wool— The local sales in iK^'South Island are passing off with spirit, and " from reports to hand buyers aret>pe«Rting with more freedom than heretdfocs. Our next auction will be held on-Fridv » sth February, when we shall, offer. ■< large catalogue of well-known brands j cwnpns*. ■ mg a fair proportion of lambi' wool. The busier portion of the wool season may be said to be now past. Considerable quanta ties, however, are still coming ic^hand, shipping arrangements haye been- fully up to requirements, and the despatch of vessels admirably, conducted. - - Wheat— rMark«jt b_ar©,jof .sappkes. Whole fowl wheat, 4s \4s 6#per bushel. Vo '^ Oats are in good request, a^ Id tS 2s, ex store, sacks extra. This^markel 1 , in sympathy with the tone Tulinjfto tHe South, is very firm; and before^tKe ne% crop comes to hrfnd we shall prob«6l7)flee higher rates ruling.. a" of r -:r.ib - Gbass Sbbd— A small business ;ii 2 p§fs« sing m rye grass. Quotations remain without alteration. r> Pbozen Meat— Onr head office cables from London as follows :^B'tfol*tions for mutton are unchanged since last cablegram. The. beef market is firm. Fore and hindquarters are woxth.3£dL]to 4fd respectively. . . . ' *«»»«*~Tffi7