COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8268, 23 October 1906, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

"WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.

(Special to the Wairarapa Age.)

The Now Zealand Co-operative Distributing Company, Limited, Wellington report as follows: — Maize, 4s per bushel; wheat, 33 11, very firm; oats, prime feed, 2s 10d, feed. 23 7d ; bailey, feed, 3s 3d, Cape seed, 3s Gd; linseed (whole), £ls per ton ; rice meal, £5 per ton; pollard, £5 to £5 10d; bran, £4 10s to £4 15s; co'oksfoot, 3.j to 4d, per lb; prime oaten sheaf chaff, £4 Ts 6d per ton, markat iully supplied. Potatoes - Prime Australian, £l2 10s, locals, £l3, market very firm. Seed potatoes —Up-to-dates, ,£l6, Australian ~ Kidneys, £lO, Derwents, £l2, Brown Rivers, £l2. Onions Australians, £l3, locals, £l2, good demand, supplies short; butter, separator, 10£ d, dairy pats lOjd, supplies short; eggs, fresh, Is Id, firm supplies short; bacon, sides, 7-\d. h*ms and rolls, 8d; porkors, 6o's to 100's 5A per lb, keen demnnd ; apples, dessert 141 61, cookers, 13s 6d, good demand ; cabbage, 3s, cauliflower, 4s 6d per sack, good demand ; asparagus, 6d, per lb bundle ; rhubarb, 4s 6d to 5s pec lb! green pens, Is Bd, per peck; parsnips 10s per sack; carrots, table, £3. swedes, £3, wanted ; poultry ! Table roosters, 6d, cockerels, 5s to 7s, table hens, 4a 6d to 6s, ducks, 8s 6d to 7s 6d, all at per pair, turkeys, gobblers, 9jd, hens, Bd, live weight. i)ressed poultry, roosters, 9d, hens, 7d, turkeys, gobblers, lOd, hens, Bd. Poultry of all kinds in first-class demand.

LONDON MARKET ADVICES.

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wellington, have received the following cables from their London office, under date of the 18th instant:; Butter—Sinoo our iast telegram of the 11th instant, the Copenhagen offiaial quotation is unchanged. The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ending the 13th instant amounted tc|73,000 cwt as compared with 74,000 for the corresponding week of 1905. Frozen Meat—Prices for all descriptions are higher by %d per lb. Tallow—All sorts at par to 3d per owfc higher. Wool—Dates for next year's sales have toon fixed as follows: —Ist series,to open on Jauuary 15th; 2nd, March 12th. (The quantity of pew wool for these sale 3 will ba limited to 180,000 and 150,000 bales, respectively.) 3rd series, opening date, April 30th; 4th series, July 9th; sth series, September 24th; 6th series, November 2Gth. For the latter four sorifls the quantity of new wool to be admitted is not limited, and all arrivals up to within 8 dajs of the opening of the sales will be admitted.