COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 821, 29 November 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUCTIONEER'S REPORT. Messrs. Brown, Sutton, and Co. report postponing their sale of 9heepskins, hides, and tallow —there being very few buyers present. Several largo lots were sold privately at satisfactory prices ; butcher's skins bringing from 5s 3d to Ss ; lambs skins, 9d ; pelts, !Ad: rough fat, 21s per cwt.; tallow, 245; hides, 3d per lb. ♦ ■ WELLINGTON. [BY TELECSKAPII.] November 28. Mr. George Thomas repoi-ts : —Flour, Adelaide, LI7 ; Colonial, LlO 10s to Lll ; oats, 4s Cd ; bran, Is Id to Is 2d ; wheat, 4s 3d ; hams, 9Ad ; bacon, BAd ; cheese, Sd ; maize, f>s 3d ; pollard, L 6 10s"; butter, 9d ; potatoes, L 3 10s old, Us4d new. * MELBOURNE GRAIN MARKET. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), reports, under date, Melbourne, Nov. 20, as follows : Oats are slightly easier; f o r feed, 5s Id to its 2d is current qu.otstiOli. Milling samples ss-Id to 5s 5d,. B.- ' •'y still maintahisits value, and extreme Yo ' , oan bo obtained. The entire balance of shipment Californian Chevalier barley, ex Gu.st.ivo, has been sold at 8s 9d. Maize—Market easier ; sales at 4s 5Jd to 4s (id. Wheat has boon very firm ; prices advanced to f>s 4d, but the market is now easier, and fis 3d is a full ([notation. The market has a downward tendency. Flour has been sold up to Lll, but has receded in value to LlO 15s in to-day's quotations. Arrivals. Bags. Bas;s. Oats, by rail ... 271—8y coast ... IfOO Barley ~ ... 37 —,, ~ ... M Mui/.e Wheat „ ... 5730 —,, „ ... 120 Flour ~ ... 5401