Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3126, 11 February 1889, Page 3

Commercial.

Laery <fc Co, Wellington, report sales for the past week;— Potatoes . £6 to £6los; onions £8 to £9; oats 8s to 8s 8(1, very little doing; pollard £5 to £5 sa; bran, £4 10s to £4los; chaff 70s to 90s; maize 4s; milling wheat 4s; 2d to 4s 4d; fowls wheat 8s 6d,-'nominal; malting barley 8s , ' S3 to 8a 9d, ho enquiry; feed barley, out of the market; flour £lO 10s to ! £lO 15s; oatmoal £lB to £lB 10s, nominal, .no business doing, bacon 6dto7d; hams Hto 9d; cheese 6Jd to 6d for largo size; loaf cheese 7d, sales'dull; fresh butter 8d toOd; salt butter Bd,. nominal, very little doing; oranges and lemons, season . over; pines 5s Cd; bananas Is fid to 4s; figs 7s 8d to 8s; dates sd, inferior sorts 4d; Barcelona nuts Gd; almond nuts 9d. The fruit mai'ket has been in a very unsatisfactory state, on account of large shipments, and, being landed in a very advancedstate. ilL' bad to be forced off at any price. We Jjknticipate fair prices for fruit iu a short time from now, as Mel•mmw and Hobart shippers will not /continue to ship at such loss as thoy have lately been making. For every caso of apples or pears (about 401b) from Australia' or Tasnnnia costs, landed in the store, about 4s Cd in expenses alone, which is simply prohibitive. There is nothing doing in grass seed so far. Flax is still .. keeping up to our last quotation. Kaye and Carter's weekly report of the ,Ohristchurch grain and produce market.:—Wheat—Tuscan, 8s lid; Pearl, 8s lOd; Hunter's, 8s 9d, Fowlwheat-Good whole, 3s 6d; broken, 8s 3d. Oats-Milling. 8s 2d; bright short, 3b;.duns, 8s; Danish, Bs, scarce, Barley-Good malting, 4s 8d to 4s 6d; feed, 2s 8d; Cape, 8s; pearl, £2O. PeasPrussian blues, 8s Gd; split, £l4. Beans-Good whole, 8s 6d; medium, 8s ScL Flour—Roller, '£ll 10s; stone, £los 10s. Bran, 90s; sharps, 955; Oatmeal (in 25's), £1610s; in 7's. £lB 10s. Eyecorn, 8s 9d (nominal), Linseed, £ls. Ryegrass dressed, 3s 6dtoßs9d. Good ' samples, ' Bjd; radium. BJd. Oatsheaf chaff—£6. Hay (baled), £4 : l7s Cd. Batter, 8d :£ (nominal), Cheese-loaf, C|d; ;-T. medium, 6d. Hams, 9d; bacon, ?■.- 7fd; H and B, .BJd. : :Lard (in bladders), ijd. .'• v : :