COMMERCIAL

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4936, 28 January 1895, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

Masterlon, Monday. ' Messrs R. K. Hornblow <t Co., auctioneers and produce merchants, roport wholesale prices as follows, for tho week ending January SGtli: -Speaking of business generally, ■wc have had an exceptionally good week. Produce of all kinds, has gone off freely, hut, as may expected for a few weeks, all lines are coming

down in price. The market is tborl , oughly glutted with new potatoes m and oats, but expect the lattor to be ▼ much lower in price, within the next week or two, There is a moderate quantity of tin's season's grass seed offering, but sellers are asking too high a price, which prevents much business doing. Onions are not over plentiful, and a good business is doing at our quotations. Eggs hJc gone up in price, but butter shows no improvement. Poultry is slow of sale. Eabbit skins are in fair demand, and we can place? 11 lines brought to us, at our prices. In fruit, apples arc slow of sale at 3s and 3s 6d per case. Horses are in fair demand, cattle have a downward tendency, and sheep arc to be tonight at almost any price, from Is 3d upwards. The following are our quotations: Butter, Gdper lb; eggs, Helper dozen. . nl Poultry .-Fowls, 2s to 2s-2d; ducks, '2s Id;geese, 3s3d; turkeys, 5s 9d. L Wheat, 3s Id to 3s Gd; discolored, ff Is 7d to Is 9d; good, 2s to 2s 2d. Chaff, oaten sheaf 2s (id, straw do. Grass seeds.—Cocksfoot, 3il to -kl per lb; rye-grass, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel. I New Potatoes.—We sold one line] at £4 2s M per ton. Prices range j from this'to.£4l7s 6d. Ouionß,— From Hd to 2d per lb. Rabbit akinß.—4|d to 5Jd per lb. Fruit.—Apples,- 3s to 3s6dper Ciß6 B W e6,.ssto£Uosfarlijht

I backs, and £7 to £ll for draughts, traps, £slos to £G 10s. Properties of all kinds arc being enquired for, and we have leased one farm of 500 acres, and sold 1 town i section and house.