Commercial.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3353, 5 November 1889, Page 2

Commercial.

.. Messrg Geoige Thomas and Co report produce prices as follows : .The demand for potatoes bos received a sudden check, in consequence of telegraphic advices from Sydney reporting a fall there of SI per ton, The inquiry from that quarter, has, howover, had the effect of clearing stocks in Now Zealand during the past four weeks, amounting to over 2,000 tons, which could only have been disposed of for feed purposes at nominal sums. The present values aro from £3 10s to £,{ 10s per ton. The rates for other descriptions of grai.i and produce remain unaltered, and wo quote, for parcels, roller flour £9 10s, stone do, £$ 10s; fowls wheat,, 3s to 3s 6d; bran, £3 lis; pollard, £3 10s: oaten straw chaff, £'i] sheaf do, 15 to £slos; oats, 2s 3d to !!s lid,; oatmeal, £l3 to £l3 10s; maize, 3s 3d; feed barley, 2s 9d to 3s: feed peas, 3s 9d to 4s; split pens, £ls; pearl do, £l9 10; San Francisco onions, 4d per lb; Greytown cheese, ajd; Woodville and Longbum, 4Jd; Akaroa cheese, 2Jd to 3d; bams and bacon, factory cure, 7|d; eggs, 7Jd; fresh butter, Od, salt butter, 6d; honey, ijd, The arrivals of spring products are new potatoes, Id per lb; rhubarb, 3s to 3s Gd per dozen; green peas, is 3d to Is Gd per peck; asparagus, 8d to Is 3d per bundle, The market is quite bare of fruit. Fowls aro in demand at fa\ geese, Gs;ducks. Is; and turkeys, 7sper pair.

London, November 2, New Zeuloiid wheat, on passage, average price, 35s Gd; peas, 33s Od. Tallow. —Mutton medium qaulity, 21s; beef, 23s Oil.

Tho New Zeibnd Lian an! Mercantile Agency Company (limited) have received the following telegram from tbeir London office : Tallow. -The market is weak, Good mutton is worth £25 10s, and beef £24 10h per ton. Frozen Meat. Mutton: Market has an upward tendency. Canterbury is worth sd, and Wellington 4|d per lb, Beef; Market unchanged,. .

Zealand Hemp,—There is a good trade demand, Medium quality is worth .£3O 10a per ton.