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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 2, 7 September 1880, Page 2

grain If anything, for both in first been more frequent. have not been appreciably |^Mea7and quotations remain about the same. .Wem.ington, Friday, Colonial Produce.— Wheat : Telegraphic advices during the week inform us that the prospects of the English harvest are favorable. Ihe quantity afloat is given as 1,830,000 q'laiterft." New Zealand is set down ot 44* pur 49filb, ex ship. Shipments from America are diminishing. The latest intelligence fro in Sxn Fruneisc '. is that there are not less than 8; '0,000 tons surplus fop export, which will be by no means cheering news for New Zealand growers Flour: Adelaide is dull of sa'e at £14, while supplies are adequate. Colonial of best brands is worth £11 10s. Salt butter is entirely without demand, and such fln utter absence of enquiry ban carcely ever been known before. Prices, by auction, are 6d to 7d per lb. We note with surprise that the Hero has a shipment of 66 kega from Melbourne, which is to be offered by auction today, and the prices realised cannot fail to show a heavy los« on the venture, Cheese is selling at s£d per lb best quality. Chickwheat, dull, at 2s 3d to 2s 6d. Hnios ami banon, overstocked, at 7d to 8d per lb Maize — The supply is liirgely in excess of the demand. The So phia tt Luhrs has just landed 40<> sacks from Sydney. 'he Hi-ro han on board 455 sacks for Auckland. Values are barely sustained at 3s to 3s 3d for besl simples 'J hese continued heavy importations affect the piioe of the New Zealand growth very se-iously. Oats of best desori >tion are fairly saleable at from 2s to 9s 2d per bushel. Potatoes — The importations during the past week have been exceptionally large, amounting to quite "200 tons, of which 50 tons huve been quitted for i-x ort, and prices in con-equence show a downward tendency, and the highest rates for prime are 50s per ton, while a concession of 5s per ton has been made to place a parcel Cioskery, Hus 'll, and Co. report sales this ■week at their rooms : -Flour, sacks, £11 to £11 \oi ; baj?s lODlbs.. £'11 Us, 50' a, £11 17s 6d ; oatmeal, lls ; pollard, ss; potatoes, blue Derwont.K. £2 lOs, white kulney, early seed, 6s ; fowls' wheat, :is to 3s 6d ; maize, 3a 6d ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d ; barley, 3s 6 J ; bran, 8d ; onions, 8s ; cheese, 5d to Od ; hnni" and bacon, Canterbury, lid ; salt butter, unsaleable ; fresh butter, 9d ; eggs, U)d to Is; fowk, 4s 61 per pair; ducks. 5s per p.-.ir .Consignmeiit of oaten chaff sold readily at 4a lOd to ss.— lbid. Sydney, September 3. Hennessy's brandy, bulk, qusr:ers, 10s 3d ; keros ne, Diamond, per sr.ilion, Is 9d ; Davoe's, Is lOd per gallon ; Patna rice, £21 to £22 per ton; 'Now Zealand wheat, per bushel. 3.i 7d to 3s lOd ; New Zealund oats, In 9d to 2h per 40 lbs; maiz>», p-r 6" lbs, Is lOd to 2s 2d ; candles, D.R.J.'s, 7£d. — lieuter's telegram.