LAUNCESTON.
Prices are firm, though no transactions of any note have taken place to-day. Millers are asking Ll3 for Hour. Wheat is steely at 5s 3d to 5s Ud jwjr bushel. Oats firm at f>n i».i to t»s, but there me very few in the market. Potatoes, lA, ba^s in. Ha}', lojso, L 5; pressetl, Lo 10s to hi per ton. Bran has risen to Is >'<\ pvr bushel. In cons (juenco of tho news recently received from Ameri.-a, t^bac.'o lias advanced consi-lerably in price. The best brands aie selling at fully Gs wh«Je-a!e, and 10s ivtaii. E.ca;ntiier, July 17. T!ie same paper on the next day has the follow-ing:--The amount o< basiiies.-? tran^actc>l to day was luiiited to a few small sales of wheat ;a os (,h\, and Hn.v':-«ii b:u-ley at ti.-; 3d. The demand for hay and oats, in fut for vwry doscription of hu:-se todder, was active, and but lor the hiirh rates of friri<»'}>* for hay both to Mt'lijourni- and ()tap>, the stocks on hand would b ; ; ca-ily c.eared out. Hay (hydraulic prtissel) may be quoteu Ir-jm Lf> to L( j. In tii)iir there were no transactions Ix-yniul a few sales fur hojne u>.e, :it LIU. Dvim, Is &i to Is -id. In potatoes and onions there were no chanuv. We noti -c with satisfadion several par.xl > of turnips coining into the ni.irkec, i.nd tiio^o kno'.vn ii.s tlie " Scutch yello.v" ccm.naiul re:>dy sale at Lf> ji.-r ton.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 202, 1 August 1862, Page 4
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240LAUNCESTON. Otago Daily Times, Issue 202, 1 August 1862, Page 4
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