Commercial.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 180, 19 June 1869, Page 2

Commercial.

Express Office, Friday Evening. We have heard of a small lot of oats changing hands during the week at 35., but there are few buyers, and it is difficult to quote prices of this and other produce. There is still left on hand a conside, able quantity of wheat, for which Gs. per bushel is asked. Barley is in demand for the West Coast, and os. 6d. has been offered ; this article is now scarce, and the fears entertained in the early part of the season, that we had grown an excess, is proved to be groundless Nelson, Auckland, the West Coast, and Wellington, having been purchasers in largo quantities, while our own local consumption is of itself considerable Prime salt butter sells .eadily at Is. ; cheese not much enquired for. A oinull herd of mixed cattle found a purchaser during the past week at £5 per head, which is deemed to bo a fair price. Mr. Dodson reports that the Marathon Run was purchased by the mortgagee for the nominal sum of .£10,500. On Thursday at a sale at tho Plough Jtun, some spirited bidding tooK ptace lor milch cows and draught horses ; both kind of stock seemed in demand. The furniture, &c., sold vx ell ; also poultry, pigs, &c.