COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume II, Issue 15, 14 October 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Wellington, Friday. Small signs of improvement in trade have been shown during the past week, but generally matters remain much the same as has been tho case for some time past, and greater activity must be evinced before the present feeling of doubt and distrust i 3 overcome. We note no change in prices, which rule as low as possible. Some slight improvement in the present rates for brandies should be manifest, owing to the failure of the supply in Europe, but, our bonded stocks being heavy, the effect is not yet apparent. In colonial produce trade continues dull, and prices of all descriptions of grain and produce are a shade lower. Oils to the extent of 2500 sacks wer.j sold by auction at 2s 3d to 2s 61 per bushel on Tuesday last, with terms at 3 mouths. Flour continues firm at the advance noticed in onr last report, and is now worth £12 10s to £13 per ton for best Oamaru and Canterbury mills. Keg butter dull, at lOd to lid per lb. Bacon and hams, light stocks of Southern euro, at B£d to 9d per lb. Canterbury cheese in moderate demand at 7id to 8d per lb. Barley, malting is worth 6s per bushel ; maize, 4s, hoavy stocks; bran dull, 8d per bushel, little or no s:iles ; pollard in fair demand at £6 to £6 10s ; pota toes, fair stocks in importers' hands, at 110s to 120s per ton.— N. Z. Times.