COLONIAL SECURITIES.

Southland Times, Issue 1541, 23 February 1872, Page 3

COLONIAL SECURITIES.

These are in active demand. Victoria sixes, January-July, £116; do., AprilOctober, £113 ; do., fives, January- July, £107 ; New South Wales fives, 1871-76, January-July, £103; do., 1888-1890, January-July, £106 ; do., 1872-98, annual drawings, £105 ; New Zealand Consolidated fives, January-April, JulyOctober, £103| ; do., sixes, 1891, MarchSeptember, £112 ; do., sixes, 1891, JuneDecember, £111; Queensland sixes, 1882-85, January-July, £1131; South Australia, short date, £116 ; do., Ions: dates, £117 ; Tasmania sixes, £110 ; Hobson's Bay Bail way shares, £41 ; do., bonds, sixes, £103 ; do., fives, £94 Tallow is in fair demand, prices expected to be lower ; sales, 5,256 casks ; stock, 4,956 do. Sydney oil from 345. to 375. Sperm is in moderate demand at £90. Hides. — No alteration. Leather. — Sales large, at a farthing decline. Mimosa bark steady ; prices for ground fully maintained, and 10s. in advance of previous rates for chopped. There are no sales of horns. Petroleum dull, at Is. sd. Copper still advancing; present quotation, £92 to £93 10s. New Zealand Flax.— Prices firm; common to superior, £24 to £34. Preserved meats scarce and dearer, checking sales. Australian butter, 80s. to 875. ; Australian and Fiji cotton, 9^d. to lid. ; Australian and New Zealand wheat, 525. to 655.