COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 74, 17 May 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

WEM.IK6TOX VRODUOE KKI'ORTS. Croskery, Hasell & Co. report 8 les in their rooms this week :— Flour, sacks .£lO 10s to £11 ; oatmeal, £10 10s ; bran, £3 10* ; pollard, £5 10s ; chuff, £4 10a ; pot atoes, £2 15s to £3 per ton ; oats, 2s to 2s 3d; wheat, 3s b'd ; barley, 2s 6d ; maize 3d 61 per bushel ; onions, 6* per cwt ; cheese, 4d ; hams and bacon, 101 per lb ; pears, 8s 6d to 12s ; apples, 7a to lls ; quinces, 7s; oranges, 10s; lemons, 27s 6M ; pines, 10s per doz. ; fowls, 3j ; ducks, 4s ; turkeys, 10s ; geese, 6s per pair. Laery & Campbell report that there is no great improvement in the market, buyers taking only band to mouth lines, but there is a steady business doing and prices are hardening for oats, maizj and wheat ; there is good enquiry for fresh butter, which may be quoted at lid to Is ; cheese, 4d to 4£d ; egj'.s, 2s 3d to 2s (id ; bacon and hams, guaranteed, 9J ; fowls at to-day's sale realized 3s 3.1 ; ducks, 4* ; potatoes are worth «")0s to ;"»s ; onions, £4 10i to £1 ) Du.nemx, May 13. Beef, .2d to fid per lb ; best nulling wheat, 3) 9tl to 3s J Id; medium milling, 3s 3d to 33 6d; milling oats, Is Sd ; feed oats Is 61 to Is 7d ; malt barley, 3s to 33 6 1 ; feed, 1b 6d'to Is f)d ; oatmeal, £ 9 per ton ; mutton, 2d to 4d ; pork, 6d ; veal, 4d to 6i ; lamb, 2s to 3s 6d ; oaten hay, £3 ; potatoes, £3 ; straw, £2 ; chaff (oaten), £2 10s to £2 15a; bian, £3 ; pollard, £4 10s; flour, £9 10s to £10; onions, £6 10s; bacon, rolled, 8d ; sides bacon, 8d ; hams, lid; new cheese (prize), 5d ; grass hay, 12 10s. Auckland, May 8. Business is without material alteration, being tteady rather than brisk. A better feeUng is manifested in bank and insurance shares. The mining market is exceedingly slow, except in one or two stocks Flax is coming in freely, but still finds a good market. Timber is firm, and baulk timber is becoming scarce. Produce, with the exception of barley, is firm, with an upward tendency. Oats are advancing steadily. Oatmeal has' been sold in this market as low as £10 Ids. Bat this is scarcely a fair criterion for the future, and such sales are exceptional. Potatoes, if anything, are tinner, but a lar-e proportion of the local crop is very inferior. Maize is scarce, and good samples ate worth 4s. The market will, for some time to comey' Be" probably supplied chiefly from Sydney and Fiji. Several shipments said to be on the way from the former port, but it will require 3s 6d to land without profit. The market for fruit is somewhat impjrfofad. Local fruit is almost done, so that thefe.qppry will i&w depend upon importations. •:• • )!>:; „■ . .