COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1648, 31 March 1884, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Goorfio Thomas reports produce prices as follows: —Flour, of undoubted quality, is firm nt £11; second brands, £lO 103; oats, principally Marlborough production, command 29 3d to 2s Gd for lair to prime samples; fowls wheat, of good whole grain, is rather scarce, and may be quoted at 3s; fowl's barley, market full and slow of sale from 2s Gd to 2s 9d; maiza (New Zealand), 3s Gd to 3s 8d; bran, £4 to £4 ss; pollard, £5, in good demand for winter supplies; oaton chaff, £4 10s, beans 3s 9d; Brown River and Derwent potatoes are now being offered in large parcels at 60s, exclusive of sacks; carrots, 42s Gd; Canterbury cheese rules from 4£a to sd; stocks are still large and no improvement in price is anticipated at present; hams and bacon, 9d ali round; salt butter is easier, and maybe bought at B|d and 9d; fresh, 9|d to lOd. . Thore have been'(no arrivals of assorted ship-

menta of fruit, peaohes ; apples, and poara being the only description, and these have sold fairly well, apples from 8s to Cs; pears, 6a to 16s; and peaches, 5a to Bs. Eggs in domand at Is lOd to Is lid j fowls, 3s 9d; docks. 4s par pair; SHAKE EEPOBT. Messrs Arthur Warburton & Co. repprt for the week: Sales-Equitable Building, ;£sl2s ; Wellington Trust and Loan, £0 15s; Union Insurance, 245; Equitable Inaurancs, 1b Bd, exd.iv,; Colonial Bank, 425. Quotations': Banks—N.Z. £22105; National, 70s; Colonial, 42s Gd, Insur-ancs-N.Z, 755; South British,' 58s; National, 23a 9d; Union, 14s 3d, Standard, lis 3d; Colonial, 8s 6d ;.Equitable, Is 3d; Accident, Gs Gd. Miscellaneous— Loan and Mercantile, X 5 15s; National Mortgage, 265; N,Z. Land Mrotgage, 14s 9d; N,Z. Shipping, 82s; Union Steam, Woollen, 80s j Kaiapoi, £25 6s; Wellington Trasi and Loan, £5129; Equitable Buildincr, fo 12a; Wellington Gas, £l3 10j and £G 15s; Manawatu Railway, 10s; Napier Gas, £lO 12s Gd, cum. div.