COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4904, 17 December 1894, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Masieriok, Monday. Messrs R. E. Hornblow and Co., auctioneers and produce merchants, report as follows, for week ending Saturday, December 15th- Business in all lines continues to improve, and satisfactory prices were realised for dairy produce. In oats and wheat prices show little or no alteration, and inferior descriptions are not enquired for. During the week & fair business has been done in chaff. Tie consignments of potatoes have been moro moderate, but in new potatoes tho market is full up, and we have considerable difficulty in working off consignments. Onions have also becu veiy plentiful, but we oxpcct prices to advance. The supply of eggs duiing the a eek has been more plentiful and prices are improving. The butter supply is exoessivo, and I we have difficulty in placing it at our I quotations..Poultry ia eagerly sought:

after,' and we find, nb;difficultyinl quitting at satisfactoiy lit', rabbit skins the market is'firm; and; we can easily dispose of all consign-' tnents at our quotations, Sheepskins ahow a decline. Horses, good useful hacks are.fetching very satisfactory, prices just now. During the week: we sold three private lines, of stack, including sheep -and- .cattle,'-' The former were sold at' a very lowfigure,' buyers being reluctant to purchase on account of So much dry.' weather. Tho cattle realised satis.' factory prices, being in good, condi-; tion.■■'. - 'y ':;'- ■:.'■[>: • l - : .- The following are our quotations: —Eggs, 8d per dozen j butter, 6d per lb; fowls, 2s 9d to 3s 3d; ducks, 4s j geese, 6s to 7s 6d per pair; turkeys, 7s 6d to 10s; pigs, suckers, 9s Gd to 10s; others from 12s to 27s 6d each; oats, 2s to 2s 3d per bushel; wheat, 2s 3d to 2s b'd; oaten sheaf chaff,. 2s 3d to 2s 9d per bag; straw chaff, Is 3d; potatoes,' good table, for 50s to 60s per ton ; new, l|d per lb \ onions, Hd per lb; rabbit skins, Ui to 6d per lb; sheepskins, 2^dto3ld perlb. • -k . '•''"■: Hoßsus.-Hacks£p£lolos; ■ .'-■ Sukep.—Lambs (August/, 5s to 6s 6d; fat .wethers, 7s to 8s; culls, 3s 6d to 4s:

CATTLK.-Milk cows £5 to £6los; calves 17s 6d; yearlings 26s j 2 year old heifers, 32s 6d to 385,. These were the prices realised at the Whakataki sale last week.