ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 359, 18 June 1877, Page 2

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COMMERCIAL.

(Per San Francisco Mail.) Sax Francesco, May 22. The Chronicle reports wlnat is quiet and steady. The chartering of reveral vessels to load for Europe indicates an active movement as soon as the new crop begins to come in, but they have been taken m..re in anticipation, than to meet immediate requirements. It is generally expect*, d that as soon as the new wheat makes its appearance ]>■ ices will decline, but the markets justify shippers m paying 2dol 50c and L2 fieight, and J air shipping wheat cannot now be quoted at over 2dol 50c to 2dol 55c. The movement m barley is limited. Rot-withstanding the presence of famine in some portions of India, it is that the export of wheat, from C'a cutta alone, to Fngland, will this season amount to 125,000 or 150,(00 tons. The increase in this source of supply is marked. New Yoi:k, May 22. Hides, active..2lc to 22c : whale oil, dull, at 65c to 70c : winter bleached, 75e to SOe ; sperm oil, dull, at idol 25e to Idol 2Se : winter bleached, Idol 50c ro Idol 55c ; California wool, quiet, fall c'.io, 14c to 20c: spring, 20e to 30c: New Y.»k wheat, dull and 1.-wer, 2dol 20c to 2dol 31 c • Hour, dull: cotton steady. Liver.pool, May 22. - Californian wheat, 12s Gd to 'l3s ; club, 13s 2d to 13s Gd. Latest quotations—Kerosene, Devoe"s brilliant, in 100 case lots, 35c for screw top, and 35c for faucet cans ; olt-o-phine, 35c; photohte. 33c ; Downe's, 50c.