COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 520, 17 February 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Melbourne.— The “Argus” of the 9th inst reports In the import market a moderate amount of business has been transacted, but most of the s*les effected have reached us through the auction room, comparatively little inquiry having been experienced privately. In breadstuff’s, flour is still in little request; and, owing to supplies being on a fair •scale, the market presents if anything a weaker tendency. Quotations range from £ll to £Ti ss. Wheat, on the other hand, is even firmer, and there are buyers at 5s 4d to 5s sd. without meeting with anything like a ready response, few parcels being placed on the market for sale. Feeding grains are in a most unsatisfactory position. For oats there is scarcely any inquiry. Holders ask, according to quality, from 3a Id to 3s Id. A small parcel was sold publicly at 3s3Jd. Maize is still selling atlow rates At auction this forenoon 600 bags were offered but only a portion was disposed of at 4s 8d; privately a parcel of 260 bags was placed at 4a 7-Jd ; notwithstanding this, however, we learn that higher prices are wanted in Sydney. Sugars are moving off' privately for trade purposes, at 30s to :<3s according to sample. Under the hammer, 3172 hags and mats were cleared off', when yellow Java realised £2i) 10s to £29 15s; grey Mauritius crystals were sold at £32 5s to £32 Ins, middling counters at £3l, good browns at £2B ss, and rations at £25 15s. There is little doing in teas outside the auction room, where 1823 packages were cleared off at Is 2Jd to Is Sd. Calcutta sacks were disposed of publicly at a reduction on prices lately ruling; 1‘24 bales were quitted at 7s lid. A shipment of 150 tons pig iron has changed hands on private terms. Kerosene oil has been more enquired for, in consequence of favorable advices from Sydney regarding shipments. The Etta Lowrlng and the Chatanooga, as advised last month, are the only departures with oil, and 2,500 cases for Sydney Is the only new shipments advised. Candles have been sold to a fair extent by auction ; 760 boxes of imported brands were quitted at lOd for sound, and at 9jd for faulty. Of Apollos, Victorian made, 600 boxes were sold at «|d to Bfd. lib salmon has been disposed of at 9s 9d. In liquids we learn of the sale, to arrive, of an invoice of spirits of wine at 3s ltd. Brandies are asked for, and business is reported in Central pale in bulk, and likewise in Blsquit Dubouehe’s. A line of 600 cases Henaessy’s has been cleared off at a full price. 650 cases O’Brien’s Dagger stout have realised 8s Id to Ss 2d.