COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
SouTHLiND Times Office, Thursday E/ening. Business has improved during, the past week, fine weather enabling storekeepers and settlers to get supphed for winter's consumption. Prices remain unaltered : Flour, best Adelaide, £25 per ton ; i other colonial brands, £23 to £24 per ton. Oats -have slightly advanced, they are now in demand at 5s per bushel, for first-class samplesIv horse feed [there is little doing: best oaten hay, £5 10s to £6 : chaff, £7 10s to £8.. Hams, bacon, and cheese, 6till continues in demand: Sinclair's . hams, Is IOd;. bacon, Is, 9d; good colonial, ls 6d. Ceeese, Enghsh, ls IOd; colonial, Is 7d per lb. Potatoes are and worth £8 to £9 per ton. Wines and spirits maintain then* prices at last quotations, and are in fair demand. The stocks of groceries and oUmens stores are limited, the supply being only equal to the demand. We observe la/.-ge quantities of merchandise from Dunedin has been forwarded to the Lake during the week. Cartage to the Lake, £10 for horse teams. The foUowing are tlie Customs returns for : — Wednesday, 9th May. y Stout, 202 gals £15 3 0 Thursday, 10th May.
. ♦ We are in receipt of the Daily Times to the sth of May. We chp the foUowing items of commercial inteUigence fyom the issues of the 4th and sth inst : — The weather is very much against business, but there has, notwithstanding this drawback, been a fair amount of misceUaneous trade doing, chiefly, however, among second houses, importers beiug for the moment comparatively quiet. Market prices have not varied sufficiently to caU for any notice", nor have the prospects of any staple imports altered. The cartage difficulty being prospectively removed, country business wUI in aU probability present some degree of activity for a short time to come. There are no sales of merchandise by auction taking place which caU for any special remark."
Brandy, 82 gals ... £49 4 0 Sugar, 3507 lbs 14 12 3 Whisky, 26 gals ... 15 12 0 Sundries ... 17 0 2 £96 8 5
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 257, 11 May 1866, Page 2
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338COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 257, 11 May 1866, Page 2
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