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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 827, 7 December 1878, Page 2

m I _xv VJS. ■o AUCTIONEER'S REPORT. Mr. (!. Greenfield reports the sale of lease of Municipal sections yesterday as follows : —Section 9, block XL, Mrs. Townsend, L 7 5s per annum ; part of section 16, block XXXXL, ('. T. Sheridan, LC 5s ; section 10, block L 1.11., J. Booth, L 6 ss; section 12, block LXV'IL, Alex. Kerr, LO ; section 12, block LXXVIL, W. Coleman, L 9. Mr. CL Greenfield reports having held a Male of household furniture, &c., when most of the articles went off fairly, despito the languid bidding. AUCKLAND. [UY TKLKGKAPII.] December 6. Mr. Binney reports : Flour has again come forward in large quantities from the South, as also a cargo from Adelaide. The price is therefore lower—Llo to Lll for Southern ; Adelaide, LIS. Pollard has always been dull of sale this season, and very little is inquired for, at L 5 5s to L 5 10s ; brau, L 5 10s to L 6 ; oats, in fair request, at 4s Oil to 4s 9d ; maize, 5s 3d to 5s Gd, and scarce ; oatmeal, moderate demand at L 22 ; ■pearl barley, L 23 to L 24. Cheese market hare—Canterbury, 7Jd ; local, Gd to LGJd. I lams and bacon, plentiful—cloth, Sd to do bare, 7d to 74d. New potatoes, good quality, LS to L 9. Mr. Buckland reports:—Fat cattle, 27s Gd to 35s per lOOlbs.; lamb sold freely at Ss 6d to 1 Is ; fat sheep of good quality are short of requirements, and prices in favor of sellers. Sharemarket :—Bank of New Zealand, LI ItoLI 1 4s; National, 735; Colonial, 52s Gd; Loan and Mercantile, 115s. Insurances: New Zealand, S2s Gd ; South British, 60s ; National, 26s ; Standard, 21s ; Auckland Timber Co., L 6 ; Guthrie and Larnach, 955.

CHRISTCRURCH. [by telegraph.] December 6. A large area of crop on the light lands has been ruined by the drought, but the late sown crops have much improved since the rain which fell a few days since. Wheat still keeps at 4s 3d to 4s Cd ; flour, LlO to Lll ; feed oats, 4s 3d ; hams and bacon, Sid ; butter, 9d to lOd.

DUNEDIN. [BY TKLKGRArH.] December 6,

Business within the last few days has greatly improved. Kerosene is active, and the clearances from the bond are larger than usual. Prices arc firmer, and Is 3d has been refused for large parcels of Devoe's brilliant. Hennessy's brandy firmer, and scarce—hulk, 9s 9d to 10s 3d; case, 335, or for large parcels 32s 9d. Sugars—"More active transactions in snowdrop, L3"i H)s; yellows, L 32 to L 33. Tea is dull, pending a reduction of duty on the new season's. Currants are active at sd; do, Yaleueias, Od. English hops are selling freely at Is Od to Is lid, with a small supply. Knglish bulk ale is in good demand ; botth'd, some lines scarce; sales—Tennant, lis; l'.ass (by Forrester), 10s; stout, full supply, with a small demand. Wheat is scarce in millers' hands—3s to 4s ; superior samples, 4s 3d, with fair stocks in farmers' hands. There is no appearance of a rise. The crops promise well, and tlour is dull at U) 10*.

INVERCARGILL. [BY TELEGRAIMI.] December G.

Business is improving in tone and the markets are better. Wheat—best samples, 4s to 4s Cd ; ordinary, market supplied ; bran, L 5; pollard, L 5 10s ; oats scarcefeeding, 4s ; milliner, 4s Cd ; chaff, L 7 to Ll 10s; oatmeal, LlO to L2O; potatoes, Ll 10s for old ; new, LlO.

TIMARU. (From to-day's Timaru Herald.) We have no alteration to note in last week's report of the grain market. Prices remain nominal, and there is little or no improvement manifest, with the exception, perhaps, of oats, which show a tendency to harden in consequence of the unpromising state of the growing crops. The late rains, though very beneficial, were not of sufficiently long duration to do much good, and moro rain is sadly wanted. Reports from North Canterbury are very unfavorable to the young crops, especially in the case of oats.

AUSTRALIAN COMMERCIAL. [by cable.] Sydnky, December 6. New Zealand wheat, 4s 6d ; oats, none ; candles, M. Other quotations unaltered. 0 CAPE TOWN. Tho correspondent of the Press Agency, under date Sept. 24, writes :—The breadstufi's market is weak, being overstocked by cargoes of wheat and flour from Adelaide. There is great demand for maize in Eastern Province, some imported by the Government being sold at 8s 9d per bag of 1121bs. No wool is offering at present, and quotations arc only nominal. Superior grease, 6Jd to 7d; good average, Cd to CJd; fleece, washed, Is to Is lid; superior scoured white, Is 7d to Is Sd; good averago, Is 6d to Is CJd ; mohair, la Cd per lb.