COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8189, 24 July 1906, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. (Special to the Wairarapa Age.) The New Zealand Farmers' Cooperative Distributing Company, Limited, Wellington, report as follows:—Maize, 4s 6d p«r bushel, Australian, 4s 3d; wheat, 3s 9d to 3a lOd; oats, prime feed, 3s, discoloured, 2a lid; barley feed, 3s 3d, cape seed, 3a 6d; linseed* whole, £ls per ton; rice meal, £4 15s to £5; pollard, £6 5s per ton; bran, £4 10a to £4 15a; cocksfoot, 3)4A to 4d per lb; prime oaten bheaf ohaff, £4 10a per ton; prime bright wheat straw, 47s 6d per ton; potatoes, prime Australians, Derwents, £lO 10s, looals, £ll, Seed potatoes, Up-to-dates £ls, Kidneys £l4, Derwents £ll lOe, beauty of Hebron, £l3, Early Vermonts, £l3; onions, £9; butter, separator, lid, dairy pats, lid; eggs, fresh, la lid per doz, preserved, Is 6d; cheese, best faotory mediums, honey, 60's, 4%d, 10's, 5%d; bacon sides 7d, rolls, hams, 6}£d to 7d; dressed pork, 60's to 90's, sd, 90's to lOO's, to i%&\ apples, dessert, 9s to 10s, cookers 7b 6d; cabbage, 4s/6d, cauliflower, 4s 6d; carrots, table £2 10s, horse, £2 to £2 ss; Swedes, £2 10s to £3 rer ton. Poultry—Table rooaters, 5s 6d; oookerels, 5s to 7s for good birds; table hens, 4s 6d to ss; duoks, 6s 6d all at per pair; turkeys,, gobblers, 9%d; hens 8d per lb live weight. Dressed poultry—Roosters 7d; hens 6d; turkey gobblers, lOd, hens, 3d. LONDON MARKET ADVICES. Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, have reoeived the following from their London Offloe dated the 19th instant:—Butter:—Market firm. Offloial Copenhagen quotation is higher by 2 kroner (about 2s 3d) per owt. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ending the 14th instant amounted to 94,000 owt, as compared with 87,000 for the corresponding period of 1905. We quote: Finest Australian 100s to 103s; good to fine quality, 94s to 98s. Wool:—Sales continue irregular and prices are rather lower, especially for sooured and faulty Merino.

Frozen Meat:—Since our telegram of the 12th instant, prices for frozen mutton in general are lower by par to %d per lb. Frozen Lamb—Market steady. Tallow:—Tallow in general higher by 3d to 6d but the advance asked by owners checks business. WOOL MARKET. By Telegraph—Press Association. Received July 23, 8.49 a.m. LONDON, Jdly 22. The wool catalogued to date represents 114,410 bales. There have been sold for Home consumption 58,500 bales; for the Continent, 36,000 bales; for America, 4,000 bales. Held over 18,000 bales. Compared with opening prices, greasy orossbreds are unchanged. Sooured slips are fully 10 per cent, cheaper; greasy merinos, 5 per cent, cheaper; sooured faulties, to 10 per cent, below May rates. The trade seems good, but buyers appear to have lost confidence.

The Department of Industries and Commerce has reoeived the following cablegram from the High Commissioner, dated London, 21st inst.:— "The market is irregular but closed firm. The estimated values of the different classes ire as follow: Fine orossbreds, all grades, Is 2d to Is 4d per lb; medium, Is to Is 2d; coarse, to Is superior merinos, Is Id to Is {'sa; medium, lid to Is Id; mferior, 8d to 10% d. There is a general active demand and trade is good."

FROZEN MEAT. Reoeived July 23, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, July 22. Uantertrary lamb, light, sd; medium, 4%d; heavy, 4%d; Southlaud and North island, 4%d. No business in other sorts. HIDES AND LEATHER MARKET. Received July 23, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, July 22. Hides are neglected. Heavy dry salted, Sydney, 7%d. Leather is a farthing dearer, Wellington firsts, Basils are %d dearer, first Wellington, 19#d.