COMMERCIAL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2624, 7 May 1889, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Walhito Times Offici, Monday. .AUOKLAMi PRO DUCK MARKETS. Mil Alkx. Aitkkn'm Makkkt Rkpoiu , for the week ending May I :—Business in all lines equal to previous weeks, supplies of all kinds cntmns to hand. Potatoes in very largeqnantity, uvorOOO sacks coming to hand From Wailcato districts during tho week ; and, owing to importers bringing up Southern in larpe quantities, tho market is now glutted, and prices will bo very low unless merchants discontinue) importing. Tho demand will bo very limited until feed time. Onions are still very scarce, and commanding high prices. Cnrrocs and pumpkins are low in price. Oats in good djmand. Fowl wheat sells readily; supply cleared out. Milling lota are quiet. Maize is scarcer, and has an upward tendency. Bran and sharps unaltered. Vegetables have sold at fair values. Bacon and hams movo freely at good prices. A quantity of prime local lias been sold at top price. Cheese also moves olf quickly at "lute values. Freeh butter was in short supply, and sold at higher prices. In corned butter a fair quantity to hand, but most is being held over for an advance on present values. Cheese will also bo much dearer. Eggs : Fair quantity to hand ; prices high. In fruit tho supply has shown no signs of falling off in anything except pears, which aro wanted. Good sound apples, in tidy packages, have sold at very satisfactory prices, but small damaged and mothed lots were hard to quit at any price. Pears sold bettor; and quinces and all other kinds show an upward tendency, except lemons, which are lower. Poultry : Supply was still larger than ever, and last week's prices fully maintained, i'iffs . Fair supply of good ones and really good prices obtained. Friday's sale started with all departments largely supplied and a large attendance until a late hour in the evening. The following aie tho quotations :—Turkeys, 2n to -Is sd; geese, is (id to 2s lid ; Spanish, Is (id to 3s ; pigs, good, 10s to 15s (id each ; medium, (is to cSs ; potatoes, £3 to £'4 10s ; onions, Lid to 2d : carrots, 2s to 2s 4d ; oats, feed, 2s 8d to 83; seed, 2* 7d to 3s; maize, 3s to 3e Gel ; fowl wheat, 3s lid to 3s !)d ; milling, 3s 0d ; bacon, Canterbury, (id to 7d; local, 7d to 7ld; hams, !)d ; cheese, good, 3 : iM to i'fd ; loaf cheese, to Sid ; eigs, Is 8d to Is 10d ; fresh butter, !)d to 10yd ; corned prime, S.'.d ; medium, (id ; pastry, 3d to -Id ; honey, section, 2;ijd to 4d ; tins, ad to 3d ; Walkato, 3.] d to 4d ; 21b tins, 4.'id ; apple?, Ohiriainuri; L l ,d to l.',d; Northern Spy, ljd to Ud ; Cox orange, l.fd to l.V'd ; Blenheims, sood, Id to lgd ; Stone Pippins, lid to l.'.d ; peafs, Beurre j)iul, l.'.d to 2d ; Forrell, lid to 2d.

CHiUSTCITITUCH GRAIN AND PKO"DUGK MAIUCKTS. Mmssiw ICavk and Cartkr's Kkpout fur week ondiiif? April 30th, 188!) :—Wheat : Tuscan, 4s Id; pearl, 3s 10d; Hunter's, 3s il.'.d tii '.U lOd. Fowl wheat ; Good wrinfe, ."s <id ; broken, 3*. Oats : Milling, os ; bright short, 2s lOd ; dims, 2s Hd ; Danish, 2s yd, firmly held. Hurley : Prime malting, is .'!d ; Rood, Ss lOd to Is, steady; feed, 8s -Id: Cape, lis ; pearl, £20 10s. Teas : Prussian blue, -Is ; split, £11. licans : Good whole, ¥.» (-id ; medium, 3« sd. Flour : Best Holler (aaeUs), ill; halves, .til 10s ; quarters, til l.is ; stone, £10. 'Bran, OOs ; sharps, 100s ( scarce). Oatmeal, in 2.">lb. bags, £14 ; 71bs, ,tl">10s. Ryußoru, 3s!td ; linseed, £17. HyeRriiss : Mi'icliino dressed, Jls Gil to os !)d (scarce). Cocksfoot: Prime, 3|d ; Rood seed, 2, ; dto .°,d. Oatshfiaf chiiW, tl ss. Hay: Oatun (baled), t-1 10s. P.uttcr, 10d for prime quality. Cliuesa : Loaf, "i.'id to lid ; inediuui, •I ',d to r.}d. Hams, U.'.d ; bacon, 7 : t'd (cloth) ; lianiH and bacon, Bd. Lard : In kef;s, Id ; bladders, -l.'.d to sd. The above prices current are all f.c.lf., Lyttelton, sacks and packages extra, except whore otherwise speeitied. lousiness generally quiet.

MELBOURNE GRAIN MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company reports under date Melbourne, iMth April.—The accounts from tlio country continue to be of ii most gratifying character as regards both agricultural and pastoral prospects throughout Victoria ; indesd, the same may be said for the whole nf Australia. Some of the colonies, notab'v South Australia, have been visited with rains hardly known before in its history, and farmers are now hopeful that, as the subsoil lias at last been thoroughly saturated, a new lease of prosperity will fol low their labours. The Easter holidays have, since our last report, caused almost a total suspension of business in the grain markets, and hence our quotations are for the moment more nominal than actual, the test of public competition being required to Ik the position of the market. The deliveries of wheat and Hour by rail, fur the reasons alreadv aligned, are small. At Spencer-street, Williamstown, Sandridgo, and town sidings the total receipts amount to 11,!>31 b>gs of wheat and flour, as against 28,875 bass for the corresponding week in LSSB. Our total receipts at thn above-mentioned stations from the Ist of January to thn -Oth of April are returned at r>10.7112 bags, as compared with <s:iO, 1013 basts to hand between the same dates last year. Our exports from the port of Melbourne to date are returned at 1 I'S.iWI bags of wheat and floor. Wheat : Market not opened. i.Mo'.atnuiK ,'irfi given at, ;.j Sil to Hs S.'.d f.n-piime. r"|f.nr: Failsales of trade \<A< : ,t til 10* I• - t!3 for storm dr.--wd, mid til! upivanU f.ir rollerliriili-. (Jit.s : KiiipnwMt-i i-ii'.ln-i- hf.-ivv, but si.ill market fairly -uniiortivl. Thin samples sell at :!s M t'.'r.s 7,1 ; Danish, 3s ,Hd to l<; stool, :U 10.1 to :i-iltd; heavy, Is to-Is 111 ; s.M"i. lo I: :id.