Commercial.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1366, 8 December 1884, Page 2

Commercial.

Wblmugtow, Saturday. Laery and Campbell report that business has been steady during the last month. Oats hart realised 3s 2d to 3s 6d, ex stort. There is no milling wheat or malting barley offering. Chickwheat may be quoted at 2s 6d to 3s, aad barley at 2s 6)d. No maizn m the market through failure of last year's crops. Teas are quoted at 3b ,6d ptr bnshtl ;' old potatoes. 80s to 90s ; new do, "^T^T l^ • 1 /mrrijißn,frtii" TIH l "L 8 0; bran, IA 1.6S J pollard, El r~j i-'ettmtialr-XAA-rlOa^. flour, guarantted (Pltmingand Gilkison'i), L 9 pfarl barley, L2O per ton; salt butter 6d per lb. but little business doing ; fresh do, 7d do ; cheese, Sdtoj^d do ; hams and bacon (m cloth), 9^d to lOd do; eggs, 10d to .114 j fowls, 4s per pair ; ducks, 4a 6d do; turkeys, 6s each ; honey; L 45 to L6O per ton. The maiket is nearly bare of all kinds of fruit, owing partly to the action of tha JTew Zealend Government prohibiting importations of f uit. It is a well-known fact that tht moth has been m New Zealand apples for i ears, and whyAustialian grapes art prohibited from being landed here is net generally understood by the public. We trust the Government will take this matctr into consideration! and allow the people to have a few grapes, at a r ja» sonable price, »s there is not suffiient qu?n» tity grown m New Z aland to supply wants.