Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3029, 15 October 1888, Page 2

Commercial.

George Thomas and Co. report as follows: -Tho market for flour continues firm at old rates, and wo note that tho tone of prioes for shipping wheat is of an upward tendency; tho great difficulty now experienced is tho scarcity of freights. Oats maintain last week's values; holders are inclined to further advance prices for guaranteed parcels of good short grain. Stocks of onions aro almost exhaustod, and very few lines of really prime choose arenow available. Wo do not anticipate the arrival of the now make for some six weeks. New potatoes aro freely offering at Ll4 per ton, Wo quote prime short oats 2s 6d to 2s 7d; long do, 2s 4d to 2s Gd; oatmeal Lll 10s to Ll2; sheaf chaff, L 4; straw L 8; flour, LlO 10s for roller, aud L9los for stone process,-in saoksjwheatmeal L 10; fowls wheat, 2s Od to sßsd for brokon and wholo grain respectively; bran, L3l6s pollard L 4 jfecparleyiis 10d ipearlbarloyLlfJ ;groypeas3s3d; split peas Lls; beaus 8s id; onions nominally worth L 7; Derwent potatoes, L 8 15s to L4los; kiduey seed do, L4los; cheese 4d to fid;" ham, aud bacon, factory 7d, farmers' sd' fresh butter, overstocked, 7d; salt do l very little sale at 8d; eggs, 8d per dozen; lard 5d per lb; honey 4d to stl, The arrivals gf fruit have been confined to Sydney apd'jijf descriptions (with the exception of rlrauarb', which is ruling at 4s per dozen); Sydney oranges ruled from 4s to 9s; mandarins, 7s Gd to 10s Od; lemons 8a to 9a; banauas, from 8s to 6s Gd per bunch jcoooanuts 7s per sack; peanuts, 2fd per lb/; lime,s 7s per case;date's 4|d; prcs'eryed'pies 2\i per oaso, ' Poultry is in aqtive inqiliry; 'fowls 8s 8d to 3s 'Od',' turkeys 7s 6d to 83, and ducta 4s per pair.

Australian News. Sydney, October 12. The Stock Boards have made a successful experiment with 11. Pasteur's remedy for slieep disease known as anthrax, and they have recommended the Government to adopt it. Sailed, Mararoa for Auckland. 18th. Arrived, John Bell from Lyttelton; barque Loongaaa from Mercury Bay, Newcastle, October 18. Sailed, barquo Notero for Lyttelton, Melbourne, October 18. Sailed, Glaiicus forKaipar'a. •