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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume I, Issue 29, 11 December 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tuesday evening. Thb 'Weekly Herald of the 7th instant says ‘‘A correspondent at Tauranga has made a mistake in stating that 72,000 bushels of wheal are insufficient to make 42 tons of flour monthly during nest year. The quantity of flour obtain* able from 72,000 bushels of wheat is 1,600 toss, or 133| tons monthly for a year.” The Canterbury grain market is almost at a stand-still. Flour Srm at £l4; oats, good demand, 2s 4d ; cheese, 5d ; butter, plentiful, Sd. The long-continued drought is damaging to ths crops. AUCKLAND MARKETS. MAIZE, OATS, POTATOES, ETC. WHOLESALE. Maize, 3s lOd to 4s per bushel ; crushed, 4a 31 Oats, 3s to 3s 3d per bushel Potatoes, £3 to £4 Bran, Is 6d per bushel Hay, £5 per ton Straw, £5 per ton Chaff, £7 10s per ton

Good Salt Butter, 6d. building materials. Timber ; Boards and scantling, 100 ft, 8a to 13*J planed, tongued, and grooved, Ila to 16a. New Zealand palings, oft, 10a ; 6lt, 13s ; tea* tree rails, £2 10s per 100 ; puriri posts, £4 10a to £5 per 100; shingles, 8s to 12s per 1,000, Hobart Town palings, sft, 16s to 17s; Hobart Town rails, 70s. THE SHARE MARKET. Caledonians £ls, sellers £ls 10a; Cara buyers 295, sellers 30s; Waitemats 4a 9d, seller* 4a 9d ; Inverness, buyers 6s, sellers 8a ; Tookey, buyers, new issue, 60s ; Royal Oak. buyers, 2a 6d; Albion, buyers, £6 ; 1 okatcu, buyers, 42s 6d.

COLONIAL PRODUCE, B. d. 8. d. e. d. *. a. Butter, per lb. 0 7-0 0 Ducts 4 6-6 0 Cheese ... o 5-0 c >4 Geese ... 4 6—5 0 Eggs, per doz. 1 0-0 0 Turkeys 4 0-5 0 Lard, per lb. O 7-0 0 Bacon 0 6-0 8 Fowls, pair 4 0-4 6 Hams ... 0 9-0 0