COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3209, 20 May 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

j: WellinWos, Saturday.. George Thopias;.'s■Cfo.' report a week" in fill Ascriptions -pf produe.- In wlieiit: and flour tljero is | certainly a drooping.tendeuoy, alj though' priws aw still unaltered

v.;-; fa maintain old rates, and bolders are; firm in theirdemlands. Pollard and ;: bran are scarce, ?and likely to

remain so until the end of the vinter. Potatoes are being '■'. sent into market in' considerable quantities,; many holders, preferring to accept present rates, thin goiug to the exp6nse : arid troublo of "pitting their Btooks. Salt butter has no local demand.. Onions are becoming,very short,- every available ton i being forwarded to Sydney where quotations rule.from £l4. Until this day tho arrivals of fruit were nil; usual consignments of Fiji Fruit, however, have now stocked the market, the demand not being satisfactory. We quote flour, Llolos to Lll; bran, L 5; pollard, LB 15s; fowls', wheat, 8s Gd to 83 9d; oats, 2s lOd to 3s Id; oatmeal, Ll4los to Lls; maize, 4s; beans, 43; peas, 8s 9d; potatoes, L 8 IBs to L 4; onions, 112 103; barley, 8s 8d to 8s Gd; pearl barley, 19s; split peas, 15s; cheese, 5d to ssd; butter, 8d; fresh, do, 10d';eggs, 2s; walnuts, 6d to 7d; oheßtnuts, Odto lOd;fowls, [ 2s Gd;dnoks, 83; geese, 5a Gd; tuikeys, 6s. I Shake Report,—Arthur Warbur- ; toh '& Co. report for the week:- \ Bank of N,Z„ sellers £8; National, 1 sales 38s, sellers 87s; Colonial, i sales and buyers 42s 6d, sellers 48s i Gd. Insurance-N.Z., 77a; Sdiith ! British, sales 88s, sellers 40s; National, 18s Gd; Union, buyers 2Gs:

tanuard, 18a Cd to 145.; Colonial

buyers 4s; accidents, 7s 6d. Mis-xellaneous-Loan and Mercantile.

GBs 6d; Land Mortgage, 16s 6d; National Mortgage, 12s to 12s 6d; N.Z. Shipping, sales 06s; Uuion Steam, £l2; Mosgiel Woollen; sales 75a "6d ex div; Kaiapoi, 60s cum

div; N.Z. Drug, 20s; Wellington Trust and Loan; fGSs.to £0 10s; Equitablo Building £6l7s Cd; Wei. lington Building and Investment, £0 to £6 2s6d';_ Wellington Gas (fully paid), sales reported at £lO 4s; Geai Meat, buyers 81s'; Manawatu Bail way, buyers 10s 6d.