COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 3, 18 November 1861, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The business of the part week has been characterised by a steady healthy demand for all saleable goods. Stocks of all kinds are with few exceptions light. In the article of- flour, the market is overabundantly supplied, and| prices have slightly fallen, it may be quoted at £17 to £18. At the Waihola Lake* flour is quite a drug. Bulk and bottled ales are. scarce■■and in brisk demand, but the scarcity of case and bulk spirits willy by the arrival of th-e " Almeida" be obviated. Salt is quoted at £6 10s. Building Materials.—Boards and scantling 225. to 30s. per 100 feet ; beards tongued and grooved 355. to 40s. ; Scotch boards 405.; galvanised iron roofing £40; shingles 255. to 28s. per 100; pailings,;s and 6 feet, 18s. and 245. ; slates, Countess's : £15 10s. Lady's £13. In Great Britain and Ireland the number.of persons paying upon incomes ranging between £100 and £150 per annum in the financial year of 1359-60 was but 128*570. It is • possible "to believe that there was no fraud or evasion. here ? The same returns show.only 41,687 persons, possesing incomes between £150 and £200;, only 36,5|5 with from £200 to £300 ;, only 16,608 ranging between £300 and £400 ; and only 8,130 with incomes between £400 and £500. Grouping all. these, together, the result is, that in all the British Isles there are less than a. quarter of a million, in fact only 231530 persons, of the trading and professional classes, earning incomes between £100 and £500 per annum. Messrs. Jones, Bird, & Co. report their Saturday's stock sale as being rather dull. In consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather, but few buyers were present. Horses also were slow of sale from the same cause, and also from the short supply of really good stock. Although horses have been somewhat 16wer during the; past week, the newly discovered "diggings will cause prices to go up.