COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4250, 22 October 1892, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Ik Produce Met. Masterton, October 22, The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report on the produce market for the past week as follows : Wool.—Latest London advices re> port closing of tbe fourth series of Bales with good competition and firm jpricoa. Values, however, have not altered for the better. Locally, shearing operations may now be considered generally commenced, andclips aro already coming to baud in small quantity. So far as can be seen from present consignments, the wool • is not in as good condition as last year, We learn that English and foreign houses will again be strongly represented at the local sales, which commence here on 2nd December. BuEEPiKiNB.-Tho business during tho week at Wellington has been confined to country and butchers' skins, for which full rates were obtained, Best butchers' orossbreds up to 5s 8d j good country dry croßabred skins, up to 4s (3d; inferior, Is 6d to Bbj good merinoß, 63 per pound,

Hides.—No ohango to report. Heavy ox still continue in good request. Wo quoto OOlbs and over, 3Jd per pound; light weights, ljd to 2|d por pound. Tallow and Fat.—The demand for consumption at Wellington is good, awl all parcels coming forward are readily quitted at: —lnferior to good, 15s to 17s; prime 18s to 20s per owt. Our latest London cable read" as follows:—" There is a fair demand lor tallow. Fine mutton is in demand, but medium and inferior is neglected. Fine mutton is worth 265, and good beef 21a Gd por cwt, Oats.—Not much business passing. Holders in the South tiro nob disposed to reduce quotations, and merchants in Wellington purchase only small supplies. Good short feed is worth 2s 3d per bushel, and long oats 2s Od to 2s 2d. Fowl Wheat.—Market dull, at 2s Cd to 2s 7d, Chaff.—Remains without alteration in prices. Giiass Seeds. —Enquiries now nro limited, and; prices stand as last quoted. FitozuN Meat.—The latest advice from our London office is as follows: Mutton market, firmor; Canterbury mutton is worth 4sd per lb, and Wellington mutton i\i per lb; lamb is worth, per carcase, 6|d per lb. New Zealand beef-forequarters ire worth 8g(l, and hind-quarters 4fd per lb. •