COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 24, 27 June 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Globe Office, Saturday, The grain market is quiet; no sales of any importance having transpired for some time past. The Mary Ann Annison sailed last week, with a large quantity of wheat and barley for Sydney, and the Eakaia is ready to sail for Loudon with a large cargo, consisting of wheat. The Apelles also, is just ready for sea, and takes a part cargo of wheat, oats, and barley, for Sydney. Flour is steady at £ll’ 10s for bakers’ parcels in 20 lbs sacks ; bran has been sold at £5 10s, but the millers ask up to £t! ss; oats are firmer, and although outside orders are quiet, owing to the lower rates ruling in Dunedin ; the local demand is active and appears sufficient to support prices here. Barley is not enquired for, and few or no sales are reported. Potatoes have sold at £3 10s, but recent advices state large arrivals from Australia are expected in Auckland, and this has rather checked values here, Butter con-

tinucs in moderate request at Is, but the store keepers are very anxious to keep stocks down; and have sold at lid to J LJd. Cheese is quiet at 6d ; hams and bacon meet an excellent enquiry at 8-Jd for bare and 9d in cloth. Business in the import market has been dull this week, owing in a great measure to the wet weather, and it being the last week in the month. Blocks have been increased by the arrival of the Atrato, from London, via Port Chalmers, on the 20th instant. Sugars—A few lines of finest white crystals have changed hands at £3B 10s ; grey, £35 ; yellow crystals, £35, with sale. Tea—The usual trade sales have taken place. We hoar of no sales of note to report. Spirits—Several large parcels of Hennessey’s pale brandy have been placed at 10s 9d to 10s lOd per gallon ; Martell’s dark, 10s (id, with limited sale ; good second brands are commanding'very good sale at 8s (id to 8s 9d ; large lines have been placed at these figures. Hennessey’s case is quoted at 32s (id ; second brands, 28s, Cement sells freely at 23s to 23s Gd, at which figure a fair business has been done. Galvanised iron, G. 0., for clearing lines, £35 10s is the figure now quoted. There has been very little business done in bottled ales and stout. Several parcels of Belmont sperm candles have been bought, to arrive, at 11-Jd. A steady trade has been done in twist tobaccos, at full rates. Salt dull of sale. Fine, £4 10s ; coarse, £4 ss, Kerosene sells freely at 2s (id per gallon. A few parcels best currants have been placed at s£tl. Messrs H. Matson and Co report on the live stock market for the week ending 2(ith Juno, 1874, it's follows :—Only 33 bead of cattle and 1703 sheep came forward for the week’s supply at the yards. In cattle, we yarded 21 head, chiefly milch cows, and fresh stores. No fat cattle came to hand, but the trade operated freely for some green steers, which realised from 22s (id to 25s per lOOlbs. We quote prime beef, light weights, at 25s per lOOlbs, with an upward tendency and largo demand. Sales made by private treaty show even more per lOOlbs, and we look forward in a few weeks for considerable competition for anything prime. In sheep, our sales were 300 cross-bred two-tooth wethers, medium quality, light weights, at 14s to 14s Gd per head, equal to 3,pi per lb ; for Mr Thos Rowe ; 102 cross-bred lambs, at 9s 3d per head, for Mr F. H. Brittau ; and 18G old merino ewes, fair mutton, at 7s 3d to 7s Gd per head, for Mr John Boag, Selwyn ; other entries were, a few cross-bred s, at 13s 3d ; old culls, at 2s 3d per head ; and merino store wethers, well woolled, at 7s per head. Quotations for prime merino and cross-bred mutton, 3d to 3.)d per lb, with a rising market. Wool, .hides, and sheepskins. —On Thursday, at our stores, in consequence of the wet weather, only a small supply came to hand. Hides were passed in unsold, as also the tallow. Best butchers’ and cross-bred skins realized from 4s lOd, 5s Gd to Gs Gd each ; ditto merino, 4s 3d to 4s Gd each ; second quality, 3s 3d to 3s 9d ; inferior, 2s to 2s Gd ; boilers’ skins, Is Gd to Is lOd each.