COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5847, 25 December 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

In the import trade there is little improvement to note beyond th'e’usnal activity that is induced among special this festive season. Quotations remain unajtered except in the case of sugar and one or two small'items' hardly worth mentioning. The rise in the value of sugar in the Mauritius and.elsewhere has t)oepimet''b3' a corresponding advance here, as our stocks are.oijjy only sufiici nt for cu rent wants.’ No. 2 W is quoted at £4B : 1.C.. £47 ; and C. £44 per ton, d.p. beln'g ■an ■ advance of 80s to Ms per ton on our NoverabeCireport.' Fair trade has been done in colonial prpdflce,’;but ge orally at unsatisfactory prices. Salt butter; in kegs for. export coastwise, is in no demand, atid-holders will have tri submit to their customary penalty at the close of the season ; fresh butter from the Coast, in brine, is .selling at Sd to 8!d per lb ’• fair demand nt 7d to 7Jd per lb.,' sales by.,.auction at tiid: bacon and hams, cloth packed, 1 lOd to lid ; loose, Oil to lOd per lb. Flour, £lB to £l4 per ton for best brands of Oamsru and Canterbury'-ntUlst in Sacks ; bran, 8d to Od per bushel, overstocked and no sales ; pollard. £5 to £5 8s per ton fowls’ whfiat. scarce at 4s 9d to 5s ; oats, 2s 4d to 2s Odl'tnafze,‘4s 6d,-' New potatpes. £7 to £8 per ton; old do, £8 per ton—limited demand.