COMMERCIAL.
Times Office, Monday Evening The market being now well supplied wi th Adelaide flour, the price of that article has in consequence receded some ten shillings per ton. Sugars ate not plentiful ; quotations for yellow crystals, £46 to £49, and for white, £52 to £58 per ton, duty paid. A fair consumptive demand exists for kerosene, which may be quoted at 3s 3d per gallon. Good English malt liquors command from 12s 6d to 13s 6d per dozen, according to brand. Sales of dried fruits have been made at the following prices : — Currants, 5^6, raisins, 7d, dried apples, Bd. In almost every item of imported merchandise a rise of at least ten per cent, has taken place. On iron the advance has been fully 33 per cent. Fencing wire we quote, for Nos. 6, 7, and 8, £26, £27, and £28 respectively. Oats remain neglected at Is 6d to Is 9d. Wheat is saleable at 4s 6d to 4s 9d. Barley in demand at 4s 6d to 5s for malting samples.
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Southland Times, Issue 1600, 2 July 1872, Page 2
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172COMMERCIAL. Southland Times, Issue 1600, 2 July 1872, Page 2
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