Commercial News

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 95, 9 February 1892, Page 3

Commercial N ews

[united press association, i ' London, February 5. . -A snoa lLcpn^ignnieirfr of South African peaciesofmcdiura- quality but good condition .realised 30s , pen dozen. Both the supply and demand for American fruil are lower, opening up a splendid prospect for colonial apples, provided shipments do not exceed 15,000. cases per fortnight, i -i Fine greasy crossbreda are a halfpenny lower..: ........ . February 6 The Standard states thnt. if the Cape fruit trade is extended it may possiiily distroy the; Australian trade. > The cli» mate, nn'd cost 'of production is the same in; tire two countries, but in the distance which the fruit has to be earned, Caps Colony has a decided advantage. South America, the Stnndnrd adds, may possibly compete in the trade in future. February 7. Imports during the past month increased by £4,744,000, while exports decreased £688,000. Tallow— Medium mutton, 265; beef, 24s 6d. Australian hides— Salted heavy ox, 3£d ; light ox, 2gd. The quantity of wool catalogued up to date is 150,800 bales, of which 137,400 have been sold. Melboubnk, February 8. There is a likelihood of a stoppage of butter shipment, as producers are dissatisfied with the manner in which produce is placed on the English market. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co (Limited) report under date London, sth February :— Tallow— Market steady. Quotations unchanged since last telegram. New Zealand Hemp— Market brisk. Medium is worth £22 per ton. Medium qhalities are in good demand. Frozen Meat— Market has an upward tendency. Canterbury mutton is worth 4_d and Wellington 4_d per lb. New Zealand beef, fore and hind-qnarters are worth respectively, 4d and 4|-d per lb. George Thomas & Co., (of Wellington), report ; wholesale produce prices as follows: -There is little .alteration on our last week's prices. Some of the oatmeal millers have adranced their prices by 10s per ton. We quote oatmeal £10 ; roller flour, £12 10s to £12 los ; stone do, £11 ]5s to £12; whole fowls' wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 5d ; broken do, 3s 6d : pollard, 80s: bran, 65s to 70s; wheatmeal, £11 ; prime short feed oats, Is lid to 2s ; long to medium. Is lOd to Is lid ; oaten sheaf chaff. 60s to 70s ; feed barley, 3s 3d ; maize, nominally worth 2s 9d ; pearl barley, £15 ; blii9 pea?, 3s 9d ;. solit pea*,.£l4 ; beans, 3s 9d ; Der* went potatoes, 60s ; kidney do, 6<"s; onions, £5 10s to £6 10s according to sample ; eggs, lid ; salt butter, 8a to 9d ; fresh do, 9d;: bacon and hams, 6id ; factory- cheese, 4_d to 5d ; fowls 2s 61 to 2s 9'd; clucks, 3s, 6d; geese, 4s 6d ; turkey 7s. In the earlj- parf of the week the fruit market was glutted with all descriptions ; owing, howerrr to the * x elson Jubile-*, shipments from that quarter have fallen, off .