COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3070, 3 December 1888, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

• Geoi'go 'Thomas & Co. report produce prices as follqwsThe firmness in prices for all lines which we 1 noted last , week is still maintained with even greater intensity, and oats jroin ,2s 6d per bushel of b few, days, back are now strongly held/ for, 4s Gd, Withdrawals to r Australia have been very great, 1 and present stock in New Zjealand will hardly be sufficient to supply local requirements, until the advent of next season's harvest,' The latest cable from Sydney reported values as from is 9d to 5s (duty free), Oatmeal is'unaltered at £2O; oaten isheaf clitiff. £5; straw do. £8 10s; whole fowl's wheat 4 s 6s; jiollardahd bran £6 all round ; flour (rojler),£l2 :15s;'stone£1115s; feed barley, 3s 9d; maize; 4s 6d; „ beans 4s j . field peas 3s dd; old potatoes are quite out of the market; onions £2O per ton; new potatoes l|d per, lb: hams and bacon liave advanced Id per lb, and now stand at:Bsd'perlb,.equal;humhere; cheese. (factory). is firm' at 6d per lb;. salt : butter , has . enquiries froin the other colonies and we quote 9d per lb as the fair market value j-

fresh do, 9d ; larded tosd; eggs lOjd per dozen. The enquiries'for poultry ' have not ~ beei^.' ; [ prices ; uaualj. rates—Fowls" 3a".3U*16*38 6cl; , ductals, tuuoya 7s per pair. j.green ■peas, 6s-to 6Vper;j ; ihubayb:ss pei doz, aspiraglis. '.los, • psi'jdflpi; i gooseberries, 2d to per quarfe. We ■ on 1 \ prices