Commercial

Horowhenua Chronicle, 14 April 1915, Page 3

Commercial

WELLINGTON MARKETS. -VU'irs Liiory and Co., Ltd., Alien St, report wholesale prices as follow: — Fowls' wheat 7s Gd; whole wheat 7s Od. lowl's barley (is 3d; cape barley 7s; feed-peas (is <xl; priissian blue i>eas 8s; maize Gs (id; chaff o.s. per ton £8 10s; hay £<3 to £7; Hum- in sacks £18; oatmeal, £23; bran £8 15s; pollard £9 I'm ; rice pollard, £8 10s ; onions 5s per cwt; potatoes £6 .;« to £(i 10s; bacon all best factory sides 9.Jd per lb; hams nil best factory 7:Jd : cheese factory medium 9,1 per Hi; superphosphate. £5 ~>x per ton ; honc'lust. mixed £(i 15s per ton; linseed meal £1!) lUs per ton; , lin.sred ground t ..,[ it , £\>2 j(), s ~o r ton. II 1C II COM .M.I SSI ON 1C US KKPOjn , . fiOiidon. April 10. . Meat. The market in not (|iiite so linn with a downward tendency. \f r -Mutton.- A fair demand cuntinuce. ) North Island, (id per lb. to as as £ (ijd for host quality flight weight. j There is a poorer demand for ewes at SJ'L Lamb.-- The market is rather duller and show;; of weakness. There ■ire only a few Canterbury at the market realising H.Jtl per lb to BJd ; other than Canterhnry Bd. ~~" Beef. — Thcr<' is less demand mn he result of heavy arrivals of chilled. New Zealand hinds G3-8d per Ih; fores (id Chilled hinds OJd per lb ; fores 6d. Jiiitter..—The market is steady. Danish, 138s per cwt to 112k; \ew Zealand mis to l.'ifis: unsalted 138s to M 0« and up to M2s; Aiistialian 130s to 132s imnfilted 132s to 13(is; Siberian i2Bs (o 130s; Argeiitino, 128s to 1325. Cheese.—- The market is steady. Canadian market quiet, but him white nnd coloured per cv. 1.. !)'l« to 08s; New Zenland not quite so firm white 0&s to 91s coloured !)2.s to 935; Australian 88s to 925; States large choddnr sliapew 90s to ( .1h; English elieddnr, firm 100s to 104s. Kstimated Cniiadinn and States I'lieese stocks at London, Tiiverponl. and Bristol ou April 1 wore 79.000 boxes. mainly from 17.5.A.. ajiainst 73,000 at the smile tiinp la.st year. New Zealand and Australian cheese slocks at Tjoikloii and liristid on April 1 were 9, 000 crates not including steamers docked, hut not discharged against 77.000 at the saiiir time last year. Hemp.-The market is quiet; prices are slightly weaker. New Zealand good-fair grade, per "ton. C3I 10s; fair current Manila £10. Forward shipment:— Oood-fair £31; fair £32: fair current Manila G39 10s. The output from Manila for the week was 19,000 hales. — Wheat. —The market is dull and prices are irregular. Canadian and American, on paßsage (Ss per quarter; April or May, (ils; Argentine, on passage. 00s. Oats—The market is inactive. Argentine, on passage. 28s per quarter.