WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Southland Times, Issue 962, 3 June 1868, Page 2

WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

CotJNTBY PBODUCB. Potatoes, £6 to £7 Hams, lid Bacon, lOd Cheese, lOd to lid Butter, fresh Is 6d Butter,- salt Is 3d Eggs, 2s 6d Oats, new, 2s 6d, old 2s 9d Wheat, 7s to 7s 6d Barley, 5s Oaten hay, £3 15s to £4, 6s Meadow hay, none Fowls, 4s to 5s per pair Ducks, 4s to 5s per pair

» . RtrssETii and M'OoiLOiraH report : — There was but a small amount of business doing at our sale in the Rooms and Yard on Saturday last, and with the exception of a large sale out of town, the week generally, has been dull. HOBSE3 — But few have been offering in town and our transactions have been almost limited to the Clearing out sale of Me Auld, at East Waikivi Plains. Several head changed" hands, consisting f of mares, colts, and fillies, at prices varying from £14, to £3S per head.

Cattle — At the sale alluded to, we disposed of about 25 haad of oattle. Cows, with oalvea at foot, steers and yearlings, whioh brought, all round, an average of nearly £9 per head. Sheep — We have not operated in this market during the week, but on the Bth June purpose offering a lot at Sutherland's Yards. Houses, Land, &o — No transactions to report. Ashfield Farm was withdrawn in consequence of an absence of buyers. ■ Merchandise, &c— We realised fair rates for furniture, agricultural implements, dairy ntensils, &o. Private sales in the rooms have, on the other hand, been very limited.

H. E. Osboenb, Auctioneer, reports :— Business during thejjweek has] been dull. The sale of Mr George Trew's Btock of groceries was not well attended, and prices obtained were not satisfactory. A parcel of Otage flour (all faults) brought £20 per ton. I have sold the following valuable property, vh., section '15 block 1, Deestreet, on which is erected the Exchange Buildings } for £2,300.

The Omeo brings seven days' later Melbourne news. The " Argus " of the 13th inst. conta ; ns the following commercial article : —

" Business throughout the day has maintained a look of extreme dulness, and no indications of an improvement in trade have come under our notice. In the auction rooms there has been very little doing, and the demand privately for merchandise has not led to many transactions of an important nature. In breadstuff's flour and wheat remain neglected, and even at £20 10s no sales can be effected. By auction some 200 tons of Victorian flour were offered, but almost the whole having been limited to £21, had to be withdrawn. A small portion offered without any reserve was quitted at £20 ss, the highest figure that could be realised. Victorian wheat is quoted at 9s, but without leading to sales. A small parcel of Tasmanian was placed at 8s Bd. At an early hour of the day, the arrival at Sydney of the Kate, from California, was made known, and this circumstance assisted, if that were possible, to increase the heaviness by which the market has been characterised of late. A good deal of anxiety was evinced as to the tenor of advices from San Francisco. The Kate, we understand, brings dates to 16th March, and her cargo consists of 4000 half-bags and 7600 quarterbags of Bour (380 tons). The Ethan Allan had left with 400 tons for Auckland, but no other vessel was then loadipg for the colonies. Maize . is still very firm at 4s, and amongst otker parcels disposed of we learn of a line of 120" bushels having brought equal to this price. Oats have been disposed of publicly at 3s 9d to 4s 2d for New Zealand. For candles there is no demand whatever, and sales of this article are at present entirely confined to the auction-room-j. Some 1200 boxes were quitted to-day, in faulty condition, at lOd to 10£ d for slightly, and 9£d for badly damaged. Some 1500 cases of oilmen's stores, at the same time, found buyers at full prices. Kerosene oil is in rather alow sale for local purposes at Is 7d for Cozzens's ; there are buyers in the market how ever, for the other colonies inclined to operate more extensively. A shipment of 5000 cases of Devoe's oil, to arrive per Hellespont, has been taken up, on terms withheld. Teas still continue n faror, and vre hear of some further heavy

transactions pending. Pew sales of sugar have been made public. The sound portion of the Eva Joshua's cargo, amounting to 8000 bags, will be offered for sale to-morrow. In tobaocoes there is nothing to report, but the market will be tested by the offer to-morrow forenoon of a considerable parcel of aromatics. In liquids, the sale in quartercasks of a parcel of equal to seventy hogsheads of Otard's bulk brandy, pale, on private terms, is mentioned. We learn from Sydney the departure of the steamship Albion for the Fiji Islands, en route for Japan. The~Claud Hamilton brings Austrauau-m«»---to the 21st; inst. The "Argus" of that date contains the following commercial article : —

' ~We have very little business to report to-day. The dulness and coldness of the weather seemed to affect the movements of the merchants and dealers, and so very little has to be reported. We have heard of a sale of 2,000 cases of Hennessy'a case brandy (pale) at from 28s to 30s according to the date of the departure of the vessel which brings it, and the articles may be said to be worth from 31s to 32s on the spot. Burkes stout has gone into the market at from 9s 4d to 9s 6d. I Close on seventy bales of Tasmanian hops were disposed of at 2s 6d, and Kent's i (1867) at 2s. Malt finds buyers at 9s 3d | to 98 6d. Kerosene has again come into some j demand, a good inquiry existing for the neighbor- | ing colonies, for which price (for goods to load in j the bay) can be obtained slightly better than those on the spot. A good business has been done in teas, which have now mostly passed into the hands of one firm. The market has certainly been improved by the operations of the last few days. In breadstuff's we have little to report. Trade lots of Victorian flour continue to change hands at from £20 to £20 10s. Maize is firm at 4s. There is some business in oats, of which there have been large arrivals from New Zealand, for which from 3s lOd to 4s is asked. We hear of nothing having been done in tobaccoes or candles. The sale of city and suburban properties by Messrs Greig and Murray was so far successful that a large number of properties passed under the hammer. For the Collins-street lot, next the National Bank, however, having a frontage of twenty-five feet, only £180 per foot was bid, the reserve price being £200 per foot. The " Daily Times" of the 29th inst., contains the following item of commercial intelligence : —

Very little has been doing in the import market during the last two or three days ; but a steady demand for general trade is maintained, and business has not been destitute of life. Market values are generally maintained. Transactions in building materials have occurred, and the parcels of Baltic timber, lately in first hands, are reported as quitted at prices exhibiting an improvement on late values. Cornsacks have changed hands at 15s 3d to 15s 6d. In the produce markets no change has taken place. Town-made flour remains at £19 10s ; Chilian, £21 to £22 ; wheats, 7« 9d to 8s ; oats, 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; barley, 4s to 4s 6d j potatoes, imported, £6 ; Provincial, £7. By auction, the business done has been light, and without anything of interest occurring.

The following are the customs returns for — Friday, 15th May. Geneva, 19 gals £H 18 11 Whisky, 36 gals, ... 21 14 5 Brandy, 27 gals, 16 8 10 Wine, 64 gals 12 18 5 Sundries, _____ £79 5 0 Saturday, 16th May. Brandy, 28 gals, ... £16 17 2 Whisky, 74 gals, ... 40 13 7 Rum, 36 gals, 21 15 7 Sundries 0 4 6 £79 10 10 Monday, 18th May. Brandy, 47 gals £28 3 10 Whisky, 69 gala 41 12 9 Bum, 35 gals 21 .6 0 Geneva, 50 gala 29 18 11 Sugar, 2240 lbs 9 6 8 Boots .-.. 11 8 1 Drapery 2 2 0 £143 18 a Tuesday, 19th May. Brandy, 71 gals £42 6 11 Geneva, 30 gals 18 0 O Wine, 83 gals 16 12 10 Tobacco, 257 lbs 32 2 6 Sugar, 3420 lbs 14 5 0 Sundries 1 16 1 Gold, 6560z 82 0 4 £207 3 8 Wednesday, 20th May. Tobacco, 168 lbs £21 0 0 Sugar, 4983 Iba 20 15 3 Sundries 2 14 6 £44 9 9 Thursday, 21st May. Brandy, 71 gals £48 19 3 Geneva, 30 gals 18 0 0 Bum, 30 gals 19 5 0 Beer, 231 gals 14 8 9 Tobacco, 46 lbs 5 15 0 Sundries ... 1 9 11 £107 17 11 Friday, May 22. Whisky, 37 gals £22 10 0 •Tea 42u1b8 ... ... 10 10 ° £33 0 0 Tuesday, May 26. Cigars, 351b3 ... ... £8 15 0 Whisky, 35 gals 21 2 5 Wine, 30 gals 6 0 0 Brandy, 19 gab 11 16 3 £47 13 8 Wednesday, May 27. Brandy, 55 gala £33 13 2 Geneva, 20 gals 11 18 11 Whisky, 31 gals 20 14 0 Wine, 51 gals 10 5 7 Tobacco, 260 lbs 32 10 0 Tea, 210 lbs ... ... 55 0 Sugar, 2640 lbs « 11 0 0 Sundries ...... 0 13 £125 7 11 Thursday, May 28. Brandy, 27 gals £16 8 10 Kerosene, 1160 gals ... 29 0 0 Tobacco, 141 lbs 17 12 6 Sundries 0 9 4 £63 10 8 Friday, May 29. Drapery £12 7 4 Monday, June 1. Brandy, 47 gals £28 2 8 Geneva, 50 gals 30 2 8 Tea, 493 lbs 12 6 6 Tobacco, 180lbs 22 10 0 Sundries 10 10 6 £103 12 4 Tuesday, June 2. Brandy, 63 gals £37 15 10 Geneva, 30 galir ... ... 18 0 0 Malt ... ... ... 7 9 6 Sugar, 5600 lbs 23 6 8 Drapery ... ... IS 11- 8 Sundries ... ... -4110 2 £141 13 10