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Southland Times, Issue 1665, 19 November 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tikes Office, Monday Evening. During the past, month business ha 3 been rather animated, -'ration stows are jren^rally in demand about this season of .lie year. The fine weather is now beginning to tell upon the roads, and recent reductions in the rate of eartsge to the country districts and the Lake have encouraged transactions. Flour is in better demand in cousequence of recent Australian advices, and a rise has been established of from 20s to 30s per ton. There is little or no wheat offering 1 . In other gTains there is no change worth noting. White sugars rule rai her lower ; 6ne whites may be quoted at 50s to 535. Yellow sujrars of a goo. ' quality, being scarcer, keep up their price. The market is well supplied wi£h spirits ofevery description, and prices are accordingly moderate Kero■ene is rather scirce, and appears likely to advance. Bottled ale and Btout are dearer, quotations showirg axi advance on last month's prices, well-known brands being somewhat scarce., Cornsacks continue to rise, the supply bring very short. Wool packs are in demand ot an advance of 1b on last year's prices. Fencing wire has risen in common with all manufactured articles of iron, and. stocks are light in consequence of ih© disinclination to Liy in supplies at the advanced rates. Dried fruits are also scarce ; raisins are in demand at 7H, and curranis at s£d Commercial prospects on the whole may be described as very satisfactory, aud there is every appearance of a fair business being done through out the" summer. Considerable additions have already beoen made to stocks generally in anticipation of the business of the ensuing season.

H. E. Osborne, aurti oncer, reports the sale of section 8, biock XXX., £12 ; sections 10 and 11. block XIV., £50 ; section 18, block LXXII., £225; sections 12, 13, and U, Block XXX VI., £35, town ol lisvercargil), mil section 15, block IV., Inveroargill Hundred, containing 128 acres, £400. ifsk-street, Nov. 18, 1572.

D. Macrorie, auctnnper, reports : — The town was very bare of country settlers on Saturdaj, owing no doubt to many having to attend the Court this week, and I postponed until Saturday next, the 23;* d irist., the bale of the waggon and horses. There was an entire absence of /Bayers of horses in the yards, and the sale in the rooms subsequently waa poorlj attended, and tbe' X ciasß of goo£t being very superior, I preferred dealings by^private treaty, at tha- following prices : -r-Men's elastic sides, 13s tv 13s 6d ; small sizes, 11s 6dVto 12i ; women's, 8s 6d ; Wellingtons, :15s j grained Napoleon boots, 20s; children's balmqrais, ss. to 6s ; . prints, 6£d per yard. I quitted 'in tfie yards' the second-hand reaping machine, by Swaa, Martin & Co., at £30. t - Albion Yards, IStli Not., . 1572.