Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3239, 25 June 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

BniaDAMB, Bth June, W. Eehtz reporta as follows. , The business during ,the week: hasbeen quiet, if not dull. Advices from ; ; the country} Darling- Downs, state.';.; tbat it is next door to impossible to travel, owing to the bad stale o! the ronds. In the. north, .businesß • is: becoming-brisker and several large . 1 oiderß are coming down. Owingto ! the sudden moot'oats in the southern 1 markets, oatmeal. is .advancing.;-,/ '_ Harper's is now quoted at L 26 to L 26 \ ' 15b, and other brands' show /(fin \ improvement. : flour in modellS 3 request as follows: Australian roller 3 Ll2ss t6Ll8 : 10s/stoneLll 10s to\ 3 Ll2j, New Zealand roller Lll 10j, stone LlO 5s to 110 15s, Oats 4s 3d \ to 4s 6d ;- maize is scarce, and'4s,Gd 5 to 4s;9disbfl'ered forit; no crops are^ [ coming in owing to the excessive wet i weather. Barley Bv to'ss Cd, peas ' t7s to Bs, wheat : 4s 9d to ss, bran L 7.' ISb to LBlss; pollard, imported, L 8 16s t'o-L9 ss; oaten hay L 8 10s to'■.-■■ i L9los, potatoes L 6 10s to L 7 10s, i onionsL2l.to'L 22,; scarce,; in very good demand, with every prospeot of : -■ still higher prioes ruling,- , Butter market is glutted and prices of course are low, Cheese, N.Z,,'Bd to 9d, not; very active. The supply of hams is still in excess of the demand, and : have experienced a fall on last week's figurd, being quoted atf rom 11 jd to Is. I The barque Alexander Newton,rfrom j Forinby/ arrived with 3602 bags of ' _ potatoes and 500 bogs oats, and the [ steamer Janet Nicol made her , appearance yesterday from Tiraaru f and Lyttelton, with the following t cargo; 544 sacks oats, 925 sacks , flour, 1204 saoks bran, 917 saolak; pollard, 178 bales straw, 505 mmwheat, 156 sacks chaff,.and ' , sacks potatoes.. The New Zealand Loan and Mor . , cantile Agenoy Company,' Limited, ; f haro recoived the following telegram . , from their Loudon Office dated 21st ' ; inat :—Wool—Tho sales, progress' firmly, Scoured merino basadvancod I id per lb, amf fine greasy crossbred '. , Jd to Id per lb since close of last' i sales., Tallow-Market easier. Fine i qualities oro'not in demand. Good , mattonis worth L2? ss,'and good , beef LIS los per ton, New Zealand , Homp-Medium is worth L 29 per i ton. ... . '; London, June 22.; i _No fresh arrivals of frozen mutton , are expected before July, The - I present stock is only 1600 carcases. V New Zealand hemp is being sold at prices ranging from L3315s .to' L 34. [ German beet sugar ■: has advanced - to L 26, _ The last quotation (28s 6d) ■'■ was mutilated ih transmission, ; , Three hundred: bales of rabbit skins have been disposed of, and "prices;. have been fully .maintained. :• '' /W. .-'. At the wool Bitotions, the advanjr'.-. previously quoted has been maintained) ; There is still- an .upward tendency, h. Foreigners were large buyers, and they- :; took fully' one third of; the? bales, 'v; offered. . • ; ; '■■':•'■■ ".■->';'' ■■' --.. ■■""■ \ -.,- : ,: :t M