COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 658, 29 July 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The grain market continues quiet, and it» the absence of any sales we can only repeat last weeks prices of 4s to 4s 3d for medium to prime milling wheat; Is 8d to Is 9d for oats, and 3s cd to 3s 9d for good malting barley. Millers' quotations for flour Ire firm at £lO 10s in sacks; a good export enquiry is reported. Potatoes are extremely dilhcult to quit at over 355, and buyers are only paying tins n<nire for small lots for immediate shipment. Dairy produce is offering freely, and sales of butter have been made at li*d; for cheese buyers ofTer Bd. Hams and bacon continue in good export demand at 9d bare and o}d cloth. Business has been rather dull in the import markets during the week, and with the exception of sales in American goods ex Star Queen, we have little to report. Kerosene has been selling freely in large parcels at Is 6|d to Is 7d i.b., for Diamond brand. This line is getting firmer, as stocks held are not large. Lobsters, Star brand, have been disposed of in a line at 8s 3d. Oysters have also been quitted at rates equal to about 5s 9d to6s per dozen, delivered here. We hear a line of plaster has been quitted at price withheld, but understand the figure was satisfactory. In stouts we have to report a fair business; Coome's and Blood's meet with most attention. Dunville's case whiskey has been quitted freely: we understand quite 500 cases have been sold this month by one firm here, at 17s to 17s 6a i.b. Hennessy's bulk and case brandy realises 7s 9d and 318 i d i.b. Only ordinary trade sales to report in other lines of spirits at full rates. Tea has been moving off in trade parcels at satisfactory rates. BassVbulk ale-Thledemand is good for 4; sales have been effected at £9los to £9lss per hhd. Price s candles have been sold as low as lo£cl to lOjd d.p. There is nothing doing in cement. Sales cannot be effected at 18s per cask delivered, for Knight, Bevans, and other good hands. Galvanised iron— We have nothing new to report in this line. Slates are almost out of stock, a sale of 13,000 has been made at price withheld. Currants arc selling freely at 4jd to 5d for good sound fruit. We note the banks have raised the rate of Exchange on London i per cent, making draft at sixty days siuht, l per cent. The Star Queen, with part cargo of American goods, arrived from New York en the 22nd instant.