MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 10 January 1866, Page 2

MELBOURNE COMMERCIAL.

The Argus of January 2 has the following : — In the important market business for the year opens out anything but briskly. Although it is generally anticipated that an increased trade must be done -when we are once beyond the influence of holiday-making, no signs of an improvement have as yet been presented. In the market for breadstuffs there has been more animation, well on to 5,000 bushels of Chilian wheat having changed hands, in parcels, at 9s 7£d., and 9s. 9d. for export. No' transactions in Californian wheat have transpired. Adelaide flour goes steadily into the hands of the trade at £24 to £24 105. Chilian flour brings £21, and trade sales of Californian are made at £22 to £22 10s. Maize is offering at ss. 4d., but sales are trifling. A shipment of Hennessy's case brandy has been disposed of at 275. "We hear of a parcel of about forty bales of cornsacks having been quitted at 15s. 6d. G-eneva is inquired for ; some 500 cases JDKZ found a buyer at 11s., the price recently established for this spirit. A parcel of forty quarter-casks of spirits of wine was placed at a full market rate, said to be about 4s. 3d. A parcel of crushed loaf sugar, in bond, has been taken up .at £44 ; for other description buyers wait the opportunity of purchasing which will be offered at to-morrow's sales.