WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 8, 26 August 1842, Page 4

WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

CORRECTED UP TO LAST NIGHT.

Wines, 15 per cent. "| With 10 per cent. Tea, Sugar, Flour, Wheat, and other v additional oh. grains, 5 per cent. J Invoice. Current Rate of Interest. Bank Discounts, 10. per cent. Discounting days, Tuesdays and Fridays.

Provisions. £ s. d. £ s. d.- ' Bread —Per 21b. loaf 0 0 7 . 0 0 O 1 ' Beef— Fresh, carcase per ib..., 0 0 9 0 0 O' Salt, per tierce., .... 5 10 0 . 6 0 6 Do. per barrel 3 3 0 . 0 0 o . Butter —Irish, per ib. (none). Fresh ... 0 3 3 . 0 0 0 Mutton —Carcase per ib 0 0 9 . 0 0 li Por-A—Fresh, carcase per ib.... 0 0 7 .. 0 0 8 Irish, per barrel 5 10 0 . 0 0 0 Potatoes —New Zealand, per ton 4 0 0 . 6 0 0 Cheese —Cheshire, (no stock).. 0 1 6 , 0 0 0 Pine Apple 0 0 0 . 0 1 2 Dutch 0 0 0 . 6 1 0< Hams —Yorkshire, per ib. (none Rice —Common,per cwt. (none). ). Good 1 7 0 ? 1 10 0 1 Tobacco (in bond.) Tobacco-r— Negrohead, per ib in bond. 0 1 0 .. 0 0 0 Cigars per 1000.... 3 0 0 . 4 0 0 Inferior 1 18 0 .. 2 0 0 Havannah, per ib 0 16 0 .. 1 0 O' Chinsurah, per 1000 .. 1 10 0 .. 0 0 <, !►••• Alexandrian 1 10 0 .. 0 0 o' Spirits (in bond.) Wine —Sherry, per pipe 28 0 0 .. 40 0 0 Ditto, per dozen 1 4 0 .. 2 0 0 Brandy —First quality, per galIon, in bond 0 5 o 0 8 0 Rum —P. B. P., per gal. in bond 0 4 0 .. 0 5 0 Gin —Pale, in bond 0 1 3 0 .. 0 .. 0 1 4 3 Cases, 4 gal. 4-5 in bond 2 6 0 Arrack —Per gal. in bond .... Ale —In bottle, per doz. (none). 0 1 6 ., 0 1 9 Alsop’s, per hhd. (none). Broivn Stout —per hhd Porter —Dunbar, in bottle, per 0 0 0 ,, G 0 0doz. (in demand, none) Live Stock. Mares —Brood 50 0 0 .. 90 0 O W or king Bullocks-*- Per pair.. Hire of ditto —Per day, a team 40 0 0 .. 60 0 0' and driver .. 1 0 0 . 2 0 0 : Sheep —Each 1 3 0 . 1 8 0 Cotvs —Milch 20 0 0 . 30 0 0 Poultry —Fowls, per pair .... 0 8 0 . 0 16 0 Ducks, ditto 1 0 0 . 0 0 0 Geese, each 1 0 0 . 0 0 O Turkeys, each Pigeons, (wild,) per 1 0 0 . 0 0 Opair 0 o 0 .. 0 2 0 O’ Ducks, do. do 0 5 0 . 0 0 Miscellaneous. Eggs —Per dozen Coffee —Java, per ib. (well supplied) 0 4 0 .. 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 Candles —English wax, per ib.. 0 3 6 .. 0 0 0 Mould 0 1 2 .. 0 0 O Dips 0 0 11 .. 0 0 a Flour —1st quality, per ton of 2000ibs. (heavy stock) 27 0 0 .. 30 0 0 2nd ditto, (unsaleable). 13 0 0 .. 18 0 0 Mustard —Per dozen 0 0 0 .. 0 18 0 Muskets —Walnut stocked .... 0 0 0 .. 0 15 0 Milk —Per pint 0 0 3 .. 0 0 4 Oil —Linseed, per gallon .... 0 5 0 .. 0 7 0 Black, in cask, per ton.... 16 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Sperm 75 0 0 .. 90 0 0 Pickles —Assorted, per doz., quarts 1 1 0 . 0 0 0 Pitch— Stockholm, per barrel.. Plank —Port Nicholson per 100 0 0 0 .. 1 15 0 feet 0 0 0 .. 1 1 0 Sugar —Mauritius, per cwt. (none). Brown ditto, (heavy stock) Refined loaf, per ib. 2 0 0 .. 2 2 0 (scarce & in demand). 0 0 9 .. 0 0 0 Manilla, per cwt Salt —Liverpool, per ton, (over0 0 0 .. 3 0 0 stocked 3 0 0 .. 4 0 0 Soap —Hawes’ London, per ton 30 0 0 . 0 0 0 Liverpool (heavy of sale).. 26 0 0 . 0 0 0 Starch —Per ib 0 0 9 . 0 0 0 Scantling —Per 100 feet 0 0^ o .. 1 0 0 Shingles —Per 1000, N. Z.. .. 1 0 0 .. 1 7 0 Ditto, V. D. L 1 10 0 .. 0 0 0 Tar —Coal 1 10 0 .. 0 0 0 Stockholm 1 15 0 .. 0 0 0 Tea —Hyson skin, per chest .. 0 0 0 .. 10 0 0 Congou 12 0 0 .. 0 0 0 Turpentine —Per gallon 0 8 0 .. 0 0 0 Whalebone —Per ton 85 0 0 100 0 0 Boat Hire —Per day, without hands 0 10 0 .. 1 0 0 With hands .... 1 10 0 .. 2 0 0 Wages —Mechanics, per week.. 2 0 0 .. 3 0 0 Labourers 1 10 0 .. 1 16 0 Rates of Freight. £ s. d. Valparaizo 2 10 0 Sydney 2 0 0 Nelson 2 5 0 Taranaki 3 0 a Akaroa Auckland, 3 0 London 4 0 Q< Exchange on Sydney Bank Bills, Thirty days after sight, 2 per cent, premium On London, nominal. Private, nominal. Duties. £ s d.. On Spirits, per gallon, British .. 0 4 0 Ditto Foreign 0 5 o. Snuff, ” ” 1 o 2 0’ Cigars, ” J Tobacco, manufactured 0 0 1 0 9 Tobacco, unmanufactured 0