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Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 50, 17 February 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

><•■ .' ' ' Wellington, Friday. Colonial produce. — Potatoes are very plentiful, £4 per ton being the higbest price obtajniible for best picked samples. This price, we fear, will not bt> long sustained, owing, to the immense quantitit-s which have been grown this seison Oats have been quitted in wholesale parcels by auction at Is 8d to I* lOd. Bran is very unsaleable at Hd per bushel. Bacon and hams, in cloth are quoted at If d. Salt butter is in no do mand at Bd. Oaten chaff is dull at £4 10s per too. , Wheat— A shipment was sold the other day at 4s 3d per bushel. In Canterbury, transactions arc reported at 3s 9d to 3s lOd, but buyers are not disposed to do much at these prices. Flour stands at present at' £l2 10s to £13 per ion for best brands. Pollard may be nominally quoted at £5 per too. Maize finds limited sale at 3s 6d for New South Wales, and 3s to 4s for New Zealand. .. Cheese goes into consumption at C&d. Best mutton tallow is worth from £28 to £-9 per ton. By auction sales of fruit hive been made as follows : — Apples, 6s to 9s per case ; peaches, 8s per case;; plums, 7s to 6s per h»lf case; oranges, none in the maricet. — New Zea< lander, February 14. £ (PKH CABLE) *' '.:•■■ Sydhey, Friday. Hennessy'a three stay brandy, in case, 36s to 409 6d ; Hennessy a brands, in bulk, qunrters, 11s 9d; New Zealand oa's, 23 6d to 3a per 401bs ; oandles D.B.J.'s, 7d to 7sd per lb ; kerosene, diamond, Is 7£d to J s 8d per-gallon. " "'■'. ,