COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 833, 14 December 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

♦ DUNWDIN. [IIV TKLKCUAI'II.] December 13. BreadstufTs arc dull ami stocks light. The following aro this quotations, f.o.b. at Dunoil in wharf:—Flour, L<) 10s to LlO 10s; .sharps, L(5; bran, L 4 10s; wheat, 4s 2d to 4a titi ; oats, 4s 2d ; feed, 4s sd. AUCKLAND. [IJY TELECIU.VPH.] December 13. Mr. Binney reports:—Business very quiet. The flour market shows no animation, and sales arc very small, bakers being desirous of clearing out their stocks, but at the beginning of the year a better demand may be anticipated. Prices show no alteration from last quotations, say LlO to Lll for southern; Adelaide, Lls ; pollard, L 5 to L 5 10s ; bran, L 5 10s to Lfi ; maize, 5s 3d to 5s Oil; oatmeal, L 23 ; pearl barley, L 23 ; cheese, 7kl to Sid; hams and bacon, in cloth, 7id to Sd ; ditto, bare 7d to 7d ; new potatoes scarce, L 9. Mr. Bnekland reports:—-Steers, 30s; cows, 27s per lOOlbs. Sheep, in fair numbers, — ewes, 2d ; wethers, 3d. Share market :—Bank of Now Zealand, L 23 5s ; National, 73s ; Colonial, 52s Cd ; Loan and Mercantile, 115s. Insurances: New Zealand, 82s Oil ; South British, Gls ; National, 2(is ; Standard, 21s ; Union, 15s ; Auckland Timber Co., LI ; Outline and Lar»ach, !»,"is.

TTMARI7. * (From to-day's I'imaru Herald.) 'Die near approach of the holidays has pi von a slight stimulus to business, but the improvement is scarcely noticeable. The prolonged drought is being severely felt in all parts of the district, and the promise of a uplendid harvest that were held out at secdnowing have been totally dispelled. In some cases the young crops have been so far deatroyed that their recovery was despaired of, and sheep have been turned in upon them. This state of things will make a difference at harvest time in values, and we shall look for higher prices l-uling than we anticipated. There is no activity in the grain market, and prices remain nominal at former quotations. i 'onsiderable stocks, both of wheat and oats, still appear to be held by farmers, who are anxious to cpiit at anything like a reasonable price. The prices that farmers could get in town are about "s fid for wheat, and 3s Sd to Sa lld for oats. For good malting barley, f>s (id to ">s fld might be obtained if sample were really first-class.