COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 688, 26 June 1867, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Times Office, Tuesday ETening. The folio-wing are the Customs returns for: — Monday, 24th June.

We take the following items of Commercial InUfiKgence!xomtb.e Otago Daily limes, 12th June — The markets have, all through the past week, been very inactive, and scarcely anything of interest has been observable in the transactions ■which have taken place. The values of all staples .have been well maintainad. and the decrease in the amount of stock is felt as gradually changing prices in favor of holders. Very little speculative inquiry has, however, been, manifested, and the business done has been nearly all for actual requirements, and to a great- extent for coastwise orders. In sugars, nothing but trade lots have been placed ; values for fine sorts may be considered as rather better. No additions to the quantity on hand, which is rery small, have been made The quantity of teas held in first handß has been reduced by numerous aaiaa, made at rates shewing improvement. In malt liquors, both bulk and bottle, but little has been doing, nor can any great improvement be expected at present ; meanwhile prices, except for small parcels of best brands, are barely sustained. For spirits, the market is dull, with the exception of an enquiry for case brandies, the quantity of which of first brands offering is small, but a moderate Bupply of Hennessy's and Martel's and a small parcel of Otard's beinej held. Provisions are inactive, and will be so until the shipments of bacon and hams, now due by London ships, are to hand. Butcer maintains its value, though in better supply ; which may also be said vith respect to Colonial and English cheese, preeerved fish, and other goods under the head of provisions. Adelaide flour has been selling, though not in very heavy parcels — prices unchanged both for Adelaide and Provincial. The I Elizabeth Fleming is understood to have brought the machinery for the steam mill in course of erection in Dunedin south.

Groceries, £31 16 2 Drapery, 8 14 2 Glass and Earthenware ... 27 11 6 Timber, ... 3 19 £71 3 7 Tuesday, June 25. Tobacco, 665 lbs ... £83 2 6 Whisky, 39 galls . ... 23 8 0 £106 10 6