COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 72, 14 November 1864, Page 3

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Saturday Evening, fb& itnnva collected >t tfce Custom House for Jia past two days -.for. articles, clewed lor hoajo is aa follow j— Yeatorday, £41 l?s, 114 } to-day, £2S 4s () Ju oil, i>M 16s. lid,, betog dutien letied »» follow t—

By the s.s. Omeo, we haTe Melbourne files to thesthinst. \The Argus .of .that date has th« following : — ' . " " Business in the import market to-day has been principally confined to trade orders, Which haTe come in tolerably, briskly. - ¥or provisions especially there has been a good demand. Bya99'B stout, 'Continues in request. Bulk ale has been in better call, but transactions haTe been limited, importers seeking advanced rates on prices lately ruling. Flour has not materially; altered.' Small lots of fair Adelaide brands haTe changed hands at £24, but that price has been refused for a parcel of Hart's, £24 105! cash being' demanded. The ship Adelaide arriTed at Sydney to-day, with 120 tons of! flour, and 6,000 bushels of ; wheat. . The re•ports brought by her quote a high rate as ruling' for breadstuffs in San Francisco ; and a priTate . : telegram from Sydney has been shown us, which, states that the Esther, on the berth for Melbourne, is coming back in ballast. ■ The wheat ex Tudor, offered at auction to-day, was not placed, with the exception of some! 500. bags, which were sold at a low figure. A sale of two chops of congou tea has been effected, one fine, and one medium, at full market rates. The agents for the NeTa Sjfcearine Company's candles have advanced their price to 9i-d. per lb." Messrs. E, Groldsbrough and Co., hi their report on the wool market, report : — " We have pleasure hi reporting a most buoyant market, and that prices are in every respect fully sustained. At our sale held on Wednesday, the 2nd insfc., 4,512 bales were catalogued, but in consequence of three large lots being withdrawn for further instructions, the actual quantity submitted to public competition was 3,414 bales. When the sale commenced it was at once eTident that buyers were prepared to operate with spirit, arid as owners had become more reasonable in their demands, a considerable, amount of business resulted. At auction we placed 1,943 bales, and by private contract afterwards 184 bales, making the total quantity sold 2,127 bales. The prices obtained were most satisfactory to growers, greasy Yoa&iug lOf d. to 14d., and fleece, 16d. to 2s. per lb., the latter figvwe having been obtained for the clip of Messrs. C. and S. Officer, consisting of 465 bales from their station at Mount Talbot." We have Sydney journals to the Ist inst. The Commercial news is unimportant. The Herald of the 31st October has the following : — " The Margaret Davis arrived to-day from Valparaiso with 4,070 bags of wheat, 300 bags (15 tons) of flour, and 168 bags walnuts. A letter ! has been received from M. E. de Sarata and Co., dated Ist August, from which we take the following extract : — ' The only vessel now on the berth for your side is the Jacobus, loading wheat for New Zealand, and we expect this will be about the last cai-go that will find its way to then* markets. The Nouvelle Mcudelle, that cleared for your coast, we have since discovered, went to the 1 Cape of G-oou B.opc.' " [ We have Adelaide files to the 31sfc ult. The Register quotes — " Flour. — Price 3 quite nominal, £22 to £23 per ton. Wheat is dull. A small sale was made yesterday at 9s. 6d. per bushel at the Port, but to-day it is offering at 3d. less, but there are no buyers." Hobart Town dates to the 31st. ult. are to hand. The Mercury says : — ' ' Business during the day has been somewhat dull, and transactions hare been limited to the supply of immediate demands. There has been no moveI merit in the grain market, millers being supplied, I for a few days longer at all events, Jbut we shall no doubt have to report sales early in the week. Meanwhile, prices remain at our former quotations, viz. : — .Floiir, £26 per ton ; wheat, 11s. 6d. to 12s. per bushel ; bran, Is. 4d. to Is. 6d per bushel ; sharps, £12 per ton ; barley, English, ss. 6d. to 6s. per bushel ; Cape, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per bushel ; oats, 3s. 9d. to 4s. per bushel ; feed do., 4s. per bushel ; potatoes, (old) £8 to £8 10s. per ton, without bags ; onions, £9 to £12 per ton, according to quality -. hay, (pressed) '£4 10s. to £5 ss. per ton ; loose do., £4 to £4 15s. per ton." By the s.s. Gothenburg which reached the Bluff on the 13th, we have Dunedin files of the 12th instant. The Daily Times reports : — " The -n-eatlier has depressed the day's business, consequently little lias taken place worth recording. Messrs. M'Landress, Hepburn and Co. held a sale of drapery, &c. Messrs. A. G, Fisher and Go. offered part of the cargo of the Hermine, from New York, the best part of which was placed at the sale or privately afterwards. The barrel flour placed at the auction realised £27. Adelaide flour continues firm at £32. By the Adela, arrived this morning from Mauritius, we have dates to the 21st September. Prices continue high, and owing to the unusual lateness of the crop, shipments to 16th September to the Australian Colonies fall short of those up to the corresponding period last year. No vessele were laid on for Otago when the Adeta left ; and one only (the Eobert Passenger) r^aa on tliG berth for Melbourne."

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