COMMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 581, 22 October 1866, Page 2

COMMEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Times Office, Saturday Evening. The following are the Customs Beturns for — Fbidat, 19th Oct.

Saturday, 20th Oct.

* LATKCH3TCT3-. — The " Examiner," of Sep. 21st, reports : — The Nightingale for Auckland goes away tomorrow, -with a f nil cargo of breadstuff 3, &c. She has amongst other things 600 ba?s flour, 668 has? oats, 696 hags bran, and a small quantity of wheat ar.fi hay. The Mercury, for Melbourne, also sailing to-morrow, takes away, in addition to a large quantity of bark, 100 bays of flour, and fifty-nine of oats. Quotations to-day are : — Hour, £12 to £12 10> ; whent inlar.d, 5s "fid ; coast, 5s Sd ; oats. 4» ; bran, Is 3d. in ba<?a ; butter, Is 2d ; hay, £4 5s ; potatoes, £4 53 to £4 10a. Adelaide. — The " South Australian Register," jf Sept. 14, reports : — Hardly any business has been done during the reek, and certainly there hare been no sales >f importance. The quantity of wheat finding its iray to market ie inconsiderable, notwithstanding which prices are unchanged. There has not been ;he slightest inquiry for tiour. Plour : Prices are nominal at £13 to £14 10s per ton. Some of our Toontry millers are anxious to sell, but it is quite r. .possible to find buyers. Wheat: Some small .o ;s bare been sold at 5s 7d and 5s 9d per bushel, t there is hut little offering. Bran is dull at oat Is 5d per bushel. Earley and Oats : Some ?ies of Cape barley (feed) have been made at 5s 6s 6d per busheL Copper is still £80 per ton 1 the Port. Farm and Dairy Produce : Butter -.... d, eggs are very plentiful, and consequently .": Jl of Bale. All other sorts in good demand. ; :ntisl Mercli^ndii.o : The import Efi»rk«fc con•ues depressed, and few sales can he effected. I- iring the afternoon there were inquiries for . -tain lines, but we have not heard if sales were *de. There is an apparent inclination to do liness, but buyers continue loth to go into the > -jtet just at present. Vf 3U3OTJ3NB. — The " Argus," of Sept. 10, re---"ts - . \n the import markets a quiet day ha 3 been -sed, as usually happens on the day the iLi-glish mails are dispatched, nor do we expect :-: y renewed attention to business before another ■■■■k ?>=ts in. In the markti for breadstuffs sales ■■-■: lour have been quite limited. Our range o.f jvotations, however, remains abnost unaltered r- — £14 5s to £15 for country, and £15 10s to >:'.'• los for best town brands; the latter figure b ig a shade under former saleß of similar brand.-, - > been accepted to-day. A parcel of 6900 .; ■■ iels ChiJiau wheat is said to Lave changed \-j is privately at an advance on late BaleB ; the - • -al price paid was not allowed to transpire. .: osts and barley no transactions have been :-.- c public. Maize is very firm, and really id qualities are wanted at 4e 3d to 4s 6d, . .rding to quantity. Corn-sacks have been in-.-cd for, and wt; hear of some small parcels . > ng been placed at 13s 6d. Currants are ,-/e, an.} -wanted. A shipment just landing .- been quitted at 4£d, but most holders to ?..t; r- anticipate getting more money. Kerosene :•:' -i firmer; cue of about 600 cases have -, K-y~. effected at Co 'id. buyers in need being com.

polled to give this figure. Of bulk ales, vro learn of a shipment of about a hundred hhds. of Bass's light pale ale having changed hands, to arrive at a price fully supporting £7 10s — the rate hitherto required on the spot. A parcel of fferinesßj's case brandy has been placed at 275. At auction some 1168 half-chesfs anrl 393 chests old season's teas, ex Alexandra, found b'.iyers at prices which show a decline. Half-cheets good congous realised Is 6d to Is 7|d., and chests Is s£d to Is 7fd ; very ordinary congous were placed at ll£d to Is Ofd ; boxes were quitted at Is s£d. Some 450 pkgs half-chests and boxes, new season's teas, ex Charlotte, sold privately brought Is lOd to le 10£ d, and up to 2s 3d j and a line of 400 boxes ex Ettrick was disposed of at a price withheld, but said to be about 2s 2d in bond. We are also informed that a portion of the teas sold by auction was afterwards resold at an advance. The Egean's cargo Mauritius sugars was offered for sale under the hammer. The cargo consisted of 5637 bags, but the auctioneers succeeded in quitting only about 24,00 bags, at late rates. By granting a slight concession the whole quantity might 'easily have been disposed of, but this was refused. The Stag's cargo of Java product, consisting of sugar and rice principally, is to be offered by public sale on Tuesday next.

Prapery ... £19 17 11 Hosiery ... ... ... 589 Boots 3 4 2 Tea, 127 lbs ... ... 3 3 6 Drugs 1 16 0 C:.>ks .- 7 12 0 By. jjy 1 15 0 Whisty, 63 galls 37 16 0 Brandy, 83 galls 49 16 0 Bum, 31 galls 18 12 0 £149 1 4

Brandy, 81 sals £48 12 0 Geneva, 30 TS !3 18 0 0 Whisty, ?•• :als 16 16 0 Sugar, 2240 lba 9 6 8 £92 14 8