COMMERCIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1613, 30 July 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

♦ Times Office, Monday Evening. Business during the month has been quiet, as usual at this season of the year. The flour market. may be described as drooping, although quotations are unchanged. We quote town made and Otago at £13 10s to £14, and approved fcrands of Adelaide at £19 10s to £20. Supplies •of English malt liquors are plentiful. CornBacks are scarce, and readily command 17s per dozen. Teas and sugars are in good supply ; -quotations for yellow crystals may be made at £45 to £47, and for white, £50 to £56 per ton, duty paid. In the gram market, oats continue neglected at Is 6d to Is 8d ; -wheat it saleable <■ at 43 6d to ss ; and gor d samples of barley for malting purposes are worth ss, and in demand. Cheese, hams, and bacon are very abundant, and, when of good quality, readily saleable at fair prices. This description, however, we regret to say, by no means applies generally to our provincial produce, the inferior quality of which has lately been productive of considerable disappointment. Our farmers would find it to t ieir interest to bestow more care on the preparation for the market of this description of produce.