COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 471, 18 December 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Business continues very slack in the grain market, and the only alteration in prices appears to be in oats, which are becoming every day more unsaleable. For prime milling we can quote only what would lately have been paid for ordinary feed. Wheat continues in fair demand, but we have no alteration to report in price. A good export business is being done in Hour, but owing to large stocks, miller’s quotations are unchanged. There is a fair demand for cheese for shipment, but new cheese fit for this is scarce. As yet there is not much alteration in prices, but no doubt as the season advances prices will be low. Butter is slowly receding, and there is no inclination to lay In stocks at present price;. Hams and bacon are in fair demand for Chri-traas use. Buyers’ quotations are—Prime milling vi heat, 4s; do oats, 2s Id to2s 2d ; barley, nominal; flour, £in in sacks, £lo 17« 6d in 1001 b bags, £U 5s in 501 b bags; bran £i 10j» ; sharps, £5 10s: butter. 7Jd; cheese fnew) 74d; hams and bacon, in cloth, lid If we take Into consideration Thursday being a public holiday, the business transacted duringthe week has been fully up to the average. We have no foreign arrivals to report. The ship Waikato sailed for London on the 16th instant, taking full and valuable cargo, consisting of wool, wheat, skins, and tallow valued at about £82,000. Spirits have received more attention this week. Dunville’s case whisky Jhas been placed readily at 17s 6d to ISs ; bulk finds purchasers at 6s to 6s 6d. according to age. Case brandy (Hennessy’s) has been inquired for; sales have been made at 3is to 3ls 6d; bulk is offered (reel/ at 8» to arrive. Several sales in second bauds

have been effected at 6s 9d to 6s 10d for bulk, and 22s to 25s i.b. for case. Bottled ales and stouts have been quiet; we have only a few small sales to report at current rates. Bass's bulk it--This line meets with steady sale at £9 10s tc CIO per hhd. In wines, we have to report a i.et'er demand, sherry meeting with -rood -ale at 8s 'oris i.b. Claret does not move off as readily as niieipated. 3 Moselle, pints, have been placed fret ly at .10s d p ; (plans lump on importers’ b inds. 'Vi quote 52s to 53s d.p. Ordinary f ado sales have ieei) made in tol. ». - at oin bud rates. Sugars n<. . ”*’ • any particular mark. Several m. diets • eon quitted at last rates. Teas— Thin in eket hl present is rat her bare of stood box teas. Sales have made in hull-chests and boxes at fiom 2s to_’s fid d.p. We note the Anna Dorothea has arrived at I’ort Chalmers, with part cargo, about 41)00 packages tea, for this market. This will be the first direct snipment this season, and wi 1 come to a good market. Cement—The demand lor this article is very great indeed. We note the City Council accepted a tender for 2000 casks at 21s 3d, delivered in the yards. About 1200 casks have quitted to arrive and in Port at 20a 6d to 21a d.p., delivered in Christchurch.

Messrs H. Matson and Co report on the live stock market, &e, as follows, for the week ending Friday, 17th Dec:—At Addington yards on Wednesday last, 330 headof cattle ami 3900 head ofshccpcameto hand for the week’s supply—ln cattle, our sales were 235 head for Sir Cracrott Wilson, J. Gobble, Davis, Duun, Ferguson, Bell, Henderson, Gregg, Carr, R. Wright, Drydcn, Daley. Hill, Green, and others, at for fat cattle £8 10a, £lO, to £ll per head ; stores sold at extreme rates. The demand is large, with only moderate supplies. In sheep, our sales were 1236 sheep for Sir Cracroft Wilson, McMillan, Rennie, S. Bailey, Weston, Hampton, Carpenter, Dunbar, Duncan, Haydon, O’Callaghan, and others. We sold 279 cross-bred wethers at 9s 3d and 9s 6d for Sir Cracroft Wilson, 201 do for Mr McMillan at 9s, 126 do for 7s 9d, and 8s for Mr S. Bailey, 159 do from 8s 6d, 8s 9d, to 11s 3d for Mr J. Rennie, 69 do at 8s 3d and 8s 9cl for Mr Haydon. 38 ewes at 14s for Mr Weston, 80 do at 8s and 9s for Mr Duncan, 103 do at 7s Gd and 7s 9d for Mr D. O’Callaghan, and sundry lots oi lambs at 4s 9d to 6s 6d for inferior, and 8s 6d to 10s for superior. Sheep Skins, Hides, and Tallow—On Friday, our sale at the wool stores was well attended, and sales made were as follows : Lamb skins. lOd, Is to is 6d each ; pelts, 2d, 3d. sd, 6d and 13d each; woolly skins, to 6s 3d each; hides, all round, 41d per lb; calf, do, 7£d ; rough fat, do, 2|d per lb.

Mr Charles Clark reports that at the auction sale held by him at his rooms in Hereford street on Tuesday, the 14th instant, of the suburban township of New Cambridge, Ferry road, the property of Hr William Parish, there was eager competition for tho various sections. The acre allotment with house realised £3OO. The sections of one quarter of an acre and less on the Ferry road sold for £7O up to £BO each, and the hack sections for £SO each. The sections on Ollivier’s road and William street brought from £6l to £7O each.