COMMERCIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 November 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND. (r.Y TKLKiiRAPFC.) November 5. Business "continues without change, and may be characterised as sound and steady ■without beintr brisk. Money is readilv obtainable at S and 0 per cent. : very large transactions, however, are being done at a lower rate The stock and share market exhibit a healthy tone. Mine business is dull Very few transactions have taken place in produce. Stocks are generally heavy. Maize is tinner. Oats are weak and plentiful. Potatoes are quoted to-day at a much higher figure than the sales effect. Oam aru and Canterbury potatoes were sold to-day in large quantities at :20s to 2->s per ton. The local millers have lowered the price of flour LI per ton. WO bags of ali'ditly damaged bran from Oamaru brought L-"?per ton at auetoin. Bran is likely to be plentiful, but at present, in ordinary parcels to storekeepers, is worth L 4 10s to L->. In groceries, oilmen s stores. &c.. there is no alteration. Galvanised iron, L2o and L2t> per ten. CH RISTCHURCII OH AIX AND PRODUCE RKPOKT. (From the Canterbury Times.) Business in the gra ! n market during the ■week has been extremely quiet. A feutransactions ran be recorded, of the usual groove has transpired. The ■weather lately has been very favorable for the growing crops, and the prospects of a good harvest are in every way satisfactory. The advices respecting wheat in the London market continue favorable, and the late advance has been maintained. >Yheat has not altered in any respect, and fine millinir commands 4s 2d to 4s 3d, at •which rates son:? parcels have been sold. Fair milling quality faith buyers at 3s 9d to 4s. There" ha* been a slight enquiry for chick, but s.iles have been ma '.e at Is lid to Og t)(.l» Oats continue quiet and values remain ai. 3s 6d to Is Sd for best milling Good feed are quoted at Is 3d to Is -id. V> ith reference to the proposed alteration in the duty oi oats and other grains imported into victoria, nothing definite has yet been settled. I fie duty is already heavy, but with the proposed increase it will affect us considerably. Barley is without alteration. Best samples stand at 3s Gd. A few sales of feed and fair malting are reported at Is i;d to Is 3d and is 6d to 2s lOd. Potatoes. —Little business has taken place, and what has been done has been at very lowrates. Flour is in fair enquiry at LIO 10s to Lil, according to brand. Grass Seed. —The demand has almost died out, and only a limited business has been carried out. Values are in no way changed. Good farmers' dressed seed 2s fM to 2s 7d, and inferior 2s to 2s 3d. _ Dairy Produce.—Cutter. .~>M to cheese. 4d to 4Ad; hann and bacon unaltered.