COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 4 September 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

OAMAKU MARKET?. Oamaf.u Mail Office, Saturday, ?ept. 4.

The markets during the week have been quiet, and prices remain almost at last week's rates. We quote the following prices Wheat, 43 to 4s 3d per bushel; oats, Is 6d to Is lOd per bushel; barley (fowls* feed), Is Gd to 2s per bnshel ; bran, L 3 per ton ; chaff (oaten hay), 13; straw, L2 5s per ton; field peas, 3s 6d per bushel; potatoes, 32s 6d to 35s per ton; hotter (fresh), 13; salt, 9d; cheese, 6Xd; bams, Is; bacon, lid. Coal and firewood are quoted as follows Newcastle coal, L2 5s per ton; Auckland coal, 30s per ton; Shag Point, 24s per ton; Kaitangata, 30s per ton; firewood, 36s per cord.

THE LABOR MARKET. Mr. Henry Macintosh reports for the vetxk ending September 4. as follows : in the labor market is steadily imvroviag, and we hope will keep on, as the number of unemployed is still great. During the week the demand for all classes has be«Ti well maintained and still a good few orders to fill np. Female servants saltable for farm* are scarce, and also good hotel ynfe Musterers and shepherds will soon be in request, and may look forward to greater inquiry. Trades are in fair work, the only exceptions being carpenters and plasterers; yet in every part of the town buildings are being erected, and upon the whole business, although doll, is evidently more healthy than it has been. Fair rates of wages are still being given for good servants.

DUNEDIN. (by telegraph.) September 3. Good sample of milling wheat, 4s 4d to 4s 7d ; fowls' wheat, 2s 6-1 to 3s; feed oats, Is to Is 6d; milling, Is 2d to l 3 8d ; malt barley, 2s 9d to 3s sd; feed, Is 9d to 2s Gd; potatoes, L2 ss; grass hay, L2 10s ; oaten hay, 13 ; medium wheat, 33 9d to 4s ; chaff, L2 15s; straw, L2; bran, L2 10s; pollard, JA 10s; Sour, LlO 10s to Lll; oatmeal, 19 10s; pearl barley, LIS; onions, 7s 6d to Ss; cheese, 3d; bacon, rolled, 9d; sides, do, Sid (grain fed) ; hams, IOJd.

AUCKLAND. (by telegraph.) September 3. Business dining the past "week has been uneventful. Potatoes are somewhat overstocked owing to recent heavy arrivals; sales are as low as 13 at the wharf, the highest prices L 3 10a to IA 15s for Canterbury, and L 4 ssto L 4 10s per ton for Oamaru potatoes. Maize is firm, and a rise in price not improbable; Fijian and Sydney are practically out of the market, and local maize about 3s 6d with an upward tendency. Oats are likewise firm, and well held; rates somewhat better than last quotation, and 2s 2d to 2s 4d obtainable for good samples; anything below these prices not being of first quality.

CHRISTCHURCH. (Front to-day's Canterbury Times.)

Grain and Produce.—Little change can ba noted in the grain market during the past -week. If anything a little demand has been experienced for some lines, and transactions both in first and second hand 3 have been more frequent. Prices, however, have not been appreciably affected. Wheat.—No alteration can be noted m this grain. Sales of good milling continue to be made at 4s Id to 4s -2d, the millers Iwing the principal purchasers. For extra samples a shade over the above quotation •would be paid. A few sales of lower grades lave transpired at rates ranging between 3s fid to 3s IGd. Oat*. —The market presents much the came features as the preceding week. There are buyers of all classes of milling and good feed oats at current quotations, and the quantity brought forward and sold during the week shows an increased business. Inferior lots, however, are not Baleable. _ For fan bright milling samples, the quotation is Is 6d to Is Sd; and good feed, Is 4d to Is 5<L Lower grades, Is Id to Is 3d. Barley lim in no way altered since onr last report; supply and quotations remain about the same. Potatoes. —The market is without change, and holders are pnshing sales as much as possible. Buyers, however, are scarce, and -values are nominally stated at 20s. Grass seed.—A larger business has transpired in rye-grass during the week than has "been the case for some time. The quantity brought forward and taken np, has been considerable, at prices ranging from 2s to 2s 7d, according to cleanness of the sced._ A few lines of really fine dressed have realised a shade over these rates.