COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 64, 6 April 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• CHBisTCHtJRiH, Friday. Basin ess in the grain market has been greatly interrupted by the holidays, and transactions have sot been of an important nature. Whbat.— The market is considerably easier in tone, and buyers are not so anxious to secure parcels. Quotations— 3s lOd to 3s 1 Id, and for a first-class lot, 4s. Oats are unaltered in value, and fewlols are brought forward. Barley maintains the same feeling ; prime reache* up to 3s lOd, and good malting Ss 6d ; lower grades are not much in request, and range about 3s 3d. Flour is still quoted at £10 10s to £11 by millers. Grass seed still continues dull of sale. Dairy Produce.— H utter, 7d to 7id ; cheese, 4£d to 6d ; hams and bacon scarce. Mutton is 2d per lb ; fat cattle, 13s to 21s parlOOlbs. Wellington, Fnday. Colonial Produce.— There are no alteration of moment to report since our last. Flour— The Matthieu has arrived, and what flour she has is being quitted at previous quotations. New Colonial flour is worth from £12 to A'l2 5« for bakers' parcels. Oat? are being moved off at the old rate of Is lOd. Salt butter is unsaleable at preaent. Cheese finds purchasers at 6jd. Potatoes— The market is fairly supplied, and prices range from £3 o« to A3 10s for best descriptions. Colonial hams and bacon are still unquotable ; the parcel from Sydney per Wakatipn was placed immediately on arrival. Chicken wheat is wanted, but thore is none in the market. The same may be said of milling wheat. Messrs Croskery, Hassel, and Co report sales this week :— Flour £12 to £13 10a per ton ; oatmeal. £12 per ton ; pollard £o per ton ; bran, 7d per bushel ; potatoes, A3 10s per ton ; onions. 7s to 3s per cwt ; cheese 6d to 6Jd per lb ; apples, 7s to 8s per.oase ; pears 10s to 1 3s per case ; quinces 6i per case ; fowls 4s 6d per pair ; egg* '-is per dozen ; Nelson hops 2s to 2s 3d. — N. Z. Times. Dunedin Friday. Prime beef, 32s 6d per lOOlbs ; mutton, 2Jd to 2^d per |lb ; wheat 4s to 4s 3d per bushel ; fowls* wheat, 3s to 3s 6d ; oats Is 3d to Is 8d ; barley, 4s to 4s 6d ; feed 2s 6d to 3s ; potatoes, £3 to £3 os ; oaten hay, j-4, new oaten hay £3 oa ; chaff, £3 ss, straw, £2 ; bran, £4 ; pollard, £4 ; flour £11 to £11 10s; oatmeal, £10; pearl barley, £22; onions, 7s } new cheese fid to 6d; bacon roiled, lOd ; hams Is ; sides bacon, lid.