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Globe, Volume I, Issue 36, 11 July 1874, Page 2

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Globe Office, fkdnrday. There have been no important wiles in the import markets during the past week ; in fact, it has been the dullest week experienced this winter. The Dunedin arrived from London on the 3rd hist, with cargo of general merchandise. Sugars—The usual trade sales have taken place ; rates are at our last quotations. Finest white crystals are getting low in stock. Tea—Several small parcels have changed hands at full rates. There are, however, no sales of note to report. Price’s Belmont candles sell freely at ltd to 11 Jd, at which figure a fair business has been done. Kerosene —We hear a line of 1000 Cases offering at Is 7d IB—a price leaves very small margin for the importer,— 2s 4d d.p/has been obtained for small trade parcels ; stocks are ample for this winter. {spj r it s —HP brandy has changed hands at 10s 9d to.lls ; Martell’s dark, 10s 6cl ; good Second brands command ready sale at 8s 3d to 8s 9d ; Hcnncssy’s case, 325; second brands, 26s to 27s 6d. Only a moderate business has been done in whisky and rum. Geneva JDKZ commands a steady sale at 15s to 19s. Swaine, Boord’s case old tom realises 14s 6d to 15s, Market almost bare ; bulk old tom, 5s 3d. Bottled ales and stouts have been quite neglected. Fair average sales have taken place in building materials at our last quotations. Hops—A parcel of Kent have been placed at Is 9d, Several lots of Tasmanian 1874 hops have been bought readily at lid to Is. Messrs H. Matson and Co, report on the livestock market !as follows:—l3s head of cattle and 2385 sheep came to hand for the weeks supply. In cattle, our sales were 105 head for Messrs Ferguson, Davies, Duncan, and others ; at for calves, 33s per head ; milch cows, £4 10s to £9 10s per head ; fat cattle, £7 to £ll per head, equal to 25s per lOOlbs for prime. In sheep—our sales were 169 cross-bred wethers at 13a 6d ; 111 merino do, at 9s Gd and Us per head, for C. J. Harper,' Esq, Brackenfield; 90 cross-bred ewes at 17s per head, for E. M. Templet,Esq Coringa ; 250 turnip fed merinos at 13s amt 13s 6d per head, for Johfi Innes, Esq, Mount Brown Station ; and 420 of all descriptions for Messrs Amos, Khull, Henderson, and others ; at for long woolled lambs, 14s ; shorn do. 8a 6d ; two-tooth inferior wethers at 10s 6d ; merino owes at 5s 6d to 7s per head. Other sales were prime merino wethers from Messrs Brown and Allen’s Station, average 601bs, at 17a to 17s 6d per head, these were the best merino wethers ever yarded at the Carlton. We quote prime mutton at 3d to 3Jd per lb. Sheep skins—a large supply came to hand and prices were about the same as Hie previous week.