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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1030, 20 December 1883, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

f>. '} 1 i : ! -' • ' ' --A ■ Ashburton Guardian Office, ... --. : j Thursday afternoon, TKe Sydney Markets. , Tt* New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report of the Sydney markets, under date Dec. 6, as folJoWsiJLWool: The satisfactoiy tone of the telegrams received from London has imparted additional firmness to the local markets, and we •>. £re T eaabled to report an improved demand for scoured sorts and medium greasy; on the 23rd ult. we offered some" 1,200 bales to a very large attendance of buyers,, and: sold 750 bales at full rates. ] 'Gir nixt sale will be held on the 17th . imt when we shall submit about 1,000 bales, f incradingsdme fine parcels of fleece and scoured. Shtep-skibs: All parcels coming to hand are readily taken up at pur last quotations. —Talbusiness 1 continues at prices 'iedtud to those reported; the demand, however, is principally for local consumption.—Potatoes; The market is now practically bare of N.Z. sorts, and small shipments (by steamer) of really sound dry potatoes , would, no doubt, command remunerative figures.—Flour : The ■, slightly improved demand which has sprung .'...tip daring the past few days has enabled us to i, quit some S,poo quarter sacks, Californian; V, ! #jid toclear at low rates, old stocks of N.Z., G which have hitherto been completely unmarketable. Prices, however, are not such as to induce us to recommend consignments —Oats : .Have had a fair amount of attention during the T pSsT tbrtuight,' and we have quitted some binboeo'bushels at market rates, which are as follow*:—Prime bright potatoe oats, 2s 6d to ,■ as 8d; Medium to good feed, 2s 2d to 2s inferior, 23 to 2S id.—Wheat: We have cleared out seme i,600 bags of fowl’s feed at 2s 6d j -downwards; market fully stocked.