COMMERCIAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2267, 12 August 1908, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

There is very little change in the produce marked. Onions are st 11 scarce, but potatoes are slightly easier. The following are the wholesale prices from merchants for produce at Gisborne: —

Flour £ll 10s sacks, £ll 17s 6d 1001 b bags. Oats 3s 2d per bushel. Onions 14s per cwt. Chaff £7 per ton for best quality. Eggs Is 6il per dozen; cheese 0-Jd to BJd; honey 4£il; bacon 9d; hams 10d. AVOOL. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, August 10. Bradford market quiet and unchanged. Colonial all cleared. AVHEAT Markets firm on less favorable rejiorts of American spring crops, but fine weather in (Europe is checking business. Cargoes firm with little demand, and 38s Oil is asked. Australian steamer August sbipmeut 38s, sailing sliiji 375, parcels afloat quiet demand, Australian spot 39s Oil. BUTTER. Thero is at present a temporary rise in tho butter mark.-t caused by an unusual demand from Australia, where the spring is very late. J’fco quantities in store in the Dominion are quite sufficient for home supplies, but through Australian orders hi tier lias risen 3d per lb wit'iin ten days. As a number of cows are coming in there is every prospect that williin a few weeks butter will find ’lie usual spring price. Butter is quoted at Is 4id wholesale^ n Gisborne. United Press Association, Copyright MELBOURNE, August 11. There has been a material reduction in the price of butter. Choicest brands are quoted at 4tl a pound less. AVELLINGTON, August 11. The Department of Industries and Commerce lias received cable advice from its Melbourne agent stating that a butter famine exists in Victoria. Butter is being sold at Is lOd wholesale, anil the market is rising. CHAFF. [Press Association.] AVELLINGTON. August 11. The Department.of Industries and Commerce are advised by the New Zonlaml Government agent in Melbourne that there is a good demand for prime oaten sheaf chaff in A’ictoria. South African and Tasmania)) chaff are quoted up to £0 17s Oil anil £7 per ton. CATTLE. AVELLINGTON, August 11. A cable from Melbourne states there is a good demand for fat cattle, there being practically no cattle fit for the market in AUctoria at present.