COMMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 558, 11 September 1866, Page 2

COMMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The subjoined is the latest commercial intelligence from Auckland ; it is extracted from the " Southern Cross" of the 25th ult. : — The news by the English mail as to the shipments to their market is not of a nature to effect price.* to any extent, and no great alteration in nny class of article can be looked for as long as the i resent Hulness of trade continues. Wines and spirits are quoted low in the home market, but prices here are not such as to encourage large consignments. As to kauri gum, we learn that the commercial panic in * ngland, and the outbreak of war on the Continent, had made the demand somewhat slack. As this state of things v as pr. tty well anticipated, prices here will not be much effected. We quote rat*"* at from £13 to £24 ; ease gum, scraped, £20 t • £35. Tlie Queen of the North sailed for London on th 2! st, with a cargo of kauri gum, flax, wool, &c. The declared value of the kauri gum on board amonnted to £13,875. Several vessels have sailed f- r the Australian colonies with cargoes of timber. &c. Mr S. Cochrane held an important sale of Auclland la , whsile oil. whalebone, groceries, oilmen's stores, at his mart in Fort-street to-day. There was a t'ood atte>'dsnce of merchants and dealers, nnd very fair prices were realised upon the whole. The fo'lowins are the quotations: — Oil, £40 per ton ; whalebone, 9d per lb ; New Zealand flax, £30 per ton ; currants 6£d per lb ; raisins, 8d ; muscatels, 9i I ; Honarf Town jams, lls a dozen ; j;ima (Wolhergpoon's). 10s 6d ; marmalade i Norton's). 10s 6d ; bottled fruit, 10s per dozen; arrowroot, 9d per lb ; sauces. 10s 6d per dozen ; mustnrd, lid per lb ; cherry cordial, 18s per dozen; oysters. "1 2s; salmon, 17s 6d ; salal oil, half-- ints". 10s 3d ; pints, 17s per dozen ; bottled talt, 7s 3d per dozen ; soap powder, 9s per gross ; m -izena. 7i i p»r lh; split peas, 4d per lb ; fine oatmeal. SiH per lb : tea. Is 8d per lb. in bond ; tea. ex Waveiley. 31 £d perlb, in bond ; Mauritius crystals. o£ri to ;"fd per lb; tart;iric acid, is lid per lb ; rat on snsrar, 3f d, in bond. "We are in receipt of our Otoga files to the sth it>st.. and extract from the "Daily Time 3," the latest commen ial intelligence, from the issue of the 3rd inst, :— The it arfcets have exhibited but little activity during the past week, and transactioi s in all descriptions of imported goods have, with one exception (the sale of sugars by auction) been limited t> current rtquirt-ments. Tl c news to hand via Panama furnished no immediate stimulus to business, nor affected the prospects ot' the market sensibly ; but was of a sufficiently e'-coiKßffin? character to warrant the conclusion that in a short time fra c will regain activity, and that vaiues for all st.ple goods will be f.tirly maintained In the meantime importers and traders are generally satisfied not to force business until after receipt of the mail's via Suez. Operar tions in the flour market have been confined to the sale of a few small lots of Chilian and South \ustralian. &t price:- at about last quoted. The »uclion sale of sugars on the 28th has been the jnly tiling to note in this article. Of the 2220 b&is pl«ved, nearly the whole were fine yellow and »Ule crystals; prices, on the whole, easier than late current rates. In teas, numerous Email sales have made up a fair aggregate busiDess, without, however, any improvement in Ts'ue. Roc-ls in in porters' hands are rapidly d furnishing, and the spring demand will torn be ieit. ±Sut Jittle business has been done in malt liquors of any kind among importers ; there have betn no transactions in bulk ales, and but trifling sales of be ers in bottle. Spirits and wines of feir and good qualities have been in some inquiry, but the sales call for no special notice in both articles, the state of stocks forbids any consider ble or speculative operations. Provisions without alteration ; the transactions have not exceed* d the placing-of a few cases of bacon and hams. We take the following commercial intelligence from the "Ljttelton Times," Ist September : — Ihe import m&rketa *re extmntly quiet; the trade as usual, towards the end of the month, evincing great unwillingness to operate to any eiVH. 'j :e extres:? caution lafc-Ij exercised by *.■-••■ =.---r-o*T"- '..• 'r.f. xh:rik : ty bo retard tc be rt- ■ ..-, ; '■'. >;\ j ;:<:- a dm; appreciation oi their ::*~i:;^ ; 'iz/j. si vzdj issa ts> iaspiri sosfi* -i

dence amongst the commercial community. Ale in bulk is still in very \imited supply. Bottled portef is enquired for and we can hardly look for heavy shipments of this article for some time. In Oilmen's stores importers are now able to assort their stocks by shipments to hand by the Bombay, which vessel is discharging her cargo with unusual celerity. Candles are more plentiful. We hear of some demand for bacon and hams. Cheese is also in fair request. Brewers appear well supplied with malt and hop although the quality of some samples now in stock is very inferior. Eastern produce is hardly so firm, which may be attributed to advices lately to hand from Australia. Many articles of Amen-c-n manufacture are in light stock. A direct cargo may, however, we presume, be shortly looked for. In colonial produce, oats are difficult ot sale even at a reduced figure, Bacon and hams are being forced into the market, at rates which can hardly pay the curers. We do not hear of any parcels of cheese offering. There is no alteration in quotations for flour. We have no transactions to record in the srram and flour mark't. In flour- there is nothing doing beyond that required- for home consumption. We quote it at £16. Wheat is freely offered at ss, with few buyers. Bran and sharps meet with a ready pale, the former at £8 15s Od, and the latter at £7 l^s Od. Oats continue at our last quotations, viz , 5s 6d to 6s ; the market is fully stocked. Peas, what few are in the market are in the hands of retailers, and fetch lOs for seed. Potatoes, £3 to £3 10s Od, are inactive, in the absence of orders for shipment.

Tihe3 Office, Monday Evening. The following are the Custom Returns for — Monday, 10th September. Geneva. 92 gals £55 2 6 Brandy. 65 gals 38 17 9 Peer, 150 pals 5 12 6 Old Tom, 11 pals 615 0 "Whisky, 35 gals 21 0 0 £127 7 9 *