COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 49, 30 December 1871, Page 8

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Mail Office, Friday Evening. The holidays have occupied too much attention to admit of any large amount of business being done, and the transactions of the past week are consequently trifling in the extreme. We note few evidences of fluctuations in values from our monthly report, and prices may be taken as stationary for the time being. Flour, owing to the large stocks in the Australian colonies, and the probability of an exceeding good harvest here, has a further downward tendency, but we report no sales of any moment, everyone at this time of the year hanging back from increasing their stocks. Canterbury first brands is quoted at £l3 to £l3 10s per ton, while Adelaide ranges' from 30 to 40s per ton higher. Good samples of feed oats are rather scarce and are worth from 3s 3d to 3s 6d per bushel, but the large quantity of inferior sorts in the market at 2s 4d to 2s 8d per bushel interferes with their value. Butter in kegs is still dull of sale at 5d for prime cure, with no apparent probability of improved demand. Wool is coming in for shipment in large quantities, bub we hear of no sales ; holders being firm in their determination to obtain full values according to last English quotations or to ship on growers' account.