COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5041, 3 June 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Mastertox, Monday. Messrs II I! Hornblow &, Co., auctioneers and produce merchants, report as follows, for weekending Saturday, June Ist:—Business done during the week, in produce, has been exceptionally good, but prices are still unchanged, with tho exception of wheat, which is gradually going up. Potatoes aro very plentiful, and equal to the demand, at lost week's quotations. Eggs aro getting plentiful, and prices have receded from four pence to. five pence under our last woek's prices. Oats and chaff are moving more freely. Poultry are almost unsaleable, with the exception of some prize birds disposed of, on Saturday, at fairly good rates. Butter remains firm, and good samples arc easily disposed of. Our general sales in Cartertot and Masterton, have been very gcA during the week. Our weekly horse bazaar, on Saturday, brought out a fair number of hacks, but the prices realised, were low. We have still a number of applications for broad acres, and town properties aro more eagerly sought after. Wo quote. wholesale prices, as follows :

llggs, Is 2d per down; butter, good M, inferior 5d per lb. Poultry-Fowls, Is !)d to 2s 3d for barn doors; well-bred, 3s 6d to 10s | ducks, 3s 9d; turkeys, ss; geese, 4s 9d, Produce -Oats, Is 8d to Is lid; oaten sheaf, 2s to 2s 3d; chaff, Is 2d. Potatoes -• Prime table, 62s Gd to 60s per ton; pig potatoes, 3s 3d per sack. Horses-Saddle hacks, 60s to £8; harness, £o 5s to £9.

Second-hand saddles, 10s to 355; harness, from 35s to 60s.