COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 243, 20 March 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Business has been quieter in the grain market during the week, as the stores are gradually rilling up, and consequently buyers are not too eager to operate. Oats are very quiet, and although considerable sales are reported at 2s 3d, the larger buyers are only paying this price to regular customers, as they do not care to buy too heavily at the figure. Wheat is meeting a steady enquiry at 3s, but shipments appear light, and the warehouses are rapidly filling up. Flour is quoted at £9 m bakers parcels for 2001 b sacks, and £9 10s in 1001 b bags. Butter is steadier at Is 2d. Cheese at 6jd to 7d. Potatoes are now offering freely at £2, but the yield is likely to reduce prices, as the demand for the North will not be great this season. A fair amount of business has been done in the import market during the past week. Sugars work oil" in large parcels at full rates ; several parcels of wfcite crystals have been disposed of at £35 to £35 10s; yellows meet with fair sale, at £33 to £33 10s i.b. Teas have met with considerable attention. Good to fine has been placed at Is 9d to 2s 3d Lb, in chests and half-chests. Boxes have realised Id to 2d advance on these figures. Spirits—Brandy —Hennessy's pale and Martell's dark move off in small parcels at 9s 3d to 9s 6d; good second brands fetch 7s 9d to Bs. Hennessy's case rather dull, at 298 3d to 29s 6d i.b. Dunville's bulk whiskey (old) has been sold at 6s 6d,—case, 18s to 18s 6d. In other lines of spirits only moderate business has been done, at our last quotations. Several parcels of bottled ale and stouts have been pushed oil at the following rates:—Tennant's, lis 6d ; Jeffrey's, lis ; Blood Wolfe's stout, lis 6d; other good brands meet with lair sale. Tobaccos-Sales in these lines have been numerous, at the following rates:—Case twist Is 9d to Is 9Jd ; -J-tierces. is 9d ; Signet and Venus, 10s, is sjd to Is 6d ; pocket pieces, is Bd. The market is almost bare of aromatics. Price's Belmont candles find purchasers at IOJd to lid. Kerosene is offering to the trade in parcels of 50 to 109 ca*es, at 2s, d.p. Corn sacks—Sales have been made at 12s to 12s 3d. Cement—The demand for this line is very good, 22s to 22s 6d is the price now quoted for a shipment. Galvanised iron, almost out of stock; quotations, nominal. Dried FruitsCurrants meet with sale at 5d to s}d for good sound fruit; Elemes, 6d to 6£d per lb.

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the live stock market, &c, as follows, viz.:—At the market yards on Wednesday, 159 head cattle and 7217 sheep came to hand. There was a large attend ance of purchasers present, but in sheep, the quality being (with few exceptions) very inferior, biddings were dull, and salesmen had considerable difficulty in effecting sales; but in cattle, competition was brisk, and all lots offered by us commanded lively bidding We sold 81 head for various owners at capital prices. Beet made 30s and over per lOOlbs, whilst stores sold at £6 10s, £6 15s to £7 10s per head, and ordinary cows from Jfc-t 10s to £6 5s ; young stock, 30s to £2 12s 6d; dairy cows and springers, £slos,£7los,£!>,to£l4perhead. In sheep our sales were 2538 of all classes for various owners. Fat sheep—Cross breds, 9s to lis ; merinos, 7s 6d to 8s per head ; merino ewes, 2s per head; lambs, inferior, from 4s to 7s per head. The quality ot sheep yarded, taken as a whole, was the worst we have seen yarded. We quote prime mutton, fair vrcights, 2sd per lb ; ordinary quality, nominal. Landed properties—We have sold during the week, at our wool stores, by auction, the following properties :—Lot 1. Part of sections 1010 and 1012, corner of Colombo and Tuam streets, having a frontage of 100 ft on Colombo street and 120 ft on Tuam street, with right of way, to Mr T. M. HasBell, for £ISOO. Lot 2. Part of sections 1147, 1149, 1151. High and Tuam streets, having a frontage of 114 ft, running back 165 ft, together with the whole of the improvements, comprising that large warehouse now in tbe occupation of Mr A. J. White, furniture dealer, to Mr A. J. White, for £2500. The whole of that first-class property, being part of rural section No 32, situate at Woolston, comprising about 2£ acres of land, together with the dwelling house and woolscouring buildings thereon, now let to Mr Thos Yorke, to Mr Thos Yorke, for ;EI2OO. 20 acres, Mandevllle district, for £BO. On Thursday, at wool stores, we sold about 30 bales of •wool, principally lambs' wool, which sold from 10£d to 11-J-d per lb. A very large supply of sheep skins came to hand, and full prices were obtained—viz, butchers' cross-breds, 2s 6d; do, merino, at Is lOd, and country skins from Is 3d to ss. About 250 salted ox hides, 4jd per lb.

The Customs revenue as follows:— Spirits Wine Tea Beer Tobacco Drapery Sundries collected yesterday was £ s. d. 163 15 8 22 11 3 127 15 6 36 12 0 28 12 9 68 7 4 122 7 7 £570 2 1