COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Wellington, Saturday. The Customs revenue for the past week amounted to £l«70 19s lOd. The colonial produce market is dull. Canterbury cheese has become low in stock, and holders now ask B|d to 9d per lb. Bacon and hams are also in short supply, and worth 8d to 9d per lb; cats, moderate stocks at 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; fowl wheat, 4s 3d ; bran in full supply at Is to Is Id per bushel; pollard, dull of sale at £7 to 4,7 10s per ton ; flour is unchanged from last week's rates, although we hear of rates at £9 10s per ton A small s' ipment «>f Adelaide flour has been recoived, for winch vro quote £17 10s. Potatoes for' some reason, are very scarce, and worth £7 to £8 per ton although reports from both north und south state that tho average in crop in greater than last year. (l'£ii Piiess Agency. 1 * Chuistchukch, Friday. Tho grain market and business generally aro very dor rcssed. Hamst operations ate in fall swing in most of the northern districts, but little or no deliveries of new grain havo been mnde yet. Crops generally look fair, and promise satisfactory yields. Millers' quotations : — For old flour, 17s ; bran, sharps, £5 ; butter, lid ; cheeßO, G£d. Other quotations nomimul.