COMMERCIAL. Oamaru Times Office, Wednesday Evening.

North Otago Times, Volume 1, Issue 3, 10 March 1864, Page 4

COMMERCIAL. O amaru Times Office, Wednesday Evening.

Vegetables in this market are extremly scarce and very high in price. Cauliflowers, melons, pumpkins, or vegetablemnmnvß are not to be had ; fish also are rxtremly scarce. There is a capital opening in Oamaru ft r a greengrocer. Few of the people take the trouble to cultivate gardens, and the retail shopkeepers seldom introduce fruit or vegetables from other markets. The following are the retail prices -.—sugar, yellow crystal, 6*d per 1!) ; ■white do. 7 id; common counter, (kl; tea, 3s fid and 4s; mixed pickles, Is 9d per bottle; cheese (English), Is lOd perlb; bacon, do Is 6d ; Sinclar's hams, do Is lOd ; coffee, per lb Is lid; butter, ( coik) do In 9d : Wellington, do 2s 6d ; and fresh do 2s 9d; currants, do 10d ; bottled fruit 2s 6d ; assorted jams, per lb Is 9d ; diied apples, do Is; salmon, per tin 2s 3d; sardine*, hdo 2s; ido Is 3d ; speim candles, ysr lb Is lOd; tallow, do Is; bread, per 41b loaf Is ; onions, per lb 8d : flour, do 3d ; 24s per 100 bag ; potatoes 2s per stone. The following is the latest from the Auckland market, taken from the Weeltly JS'ervs of the 20th ult :— " General business has been rather dull during the week, owing partly to so many men being absent at the Front. A notice was however issued yesterday by the Deputy-Adjutant-General, that arrangements were in progress by which militiamen and volunteers, now called away on service, might procure substitutes at a cost of £10 each. This welcome intimation, along with the arrivals from England, Melbourne and Sydney, was expected immediately to create a revival in trade. The City of Manchester, ship, from London, the Kate, barque, from Sydney, and the Arthur Mackenzie, brig, from Melbourne, have each brought general cargoes. Some of these goods have baen already sold at a fair price, and importers have generally done well. There is an exception as to teas, and one or two articles already plentiful here. Several vessels are daily expected from Australia." Bread Stuffs.— There is a considerable demand, and flour is scarce, still selling at £1 7 per ton, and about £19 retail. Prices in the Melbourne market, by the latest advices brought by the Swiftsure, remained unch mged. Maize was fetching about 7s. per bushel.