COMMERICAL.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 115, 13 December 1879, Page 2

COMMERICAL.

Tuna Office, priday Evening. ' The slight improvement in "easiness, which wo reported it* our last issue, has been fully iiiiiinuiiind during the past week. The partial ssttlemeiit of the native difficulty and the short spell of tine weather which we have bad have evidently tended to restore confidence, as we have observed, during the week, sevvral of the traders fiimi Knvoii, and elsowlmre in the group, operatugf in the capacity of buyers. Tin- only •arrival during tho week has been the Midge, from Auckland, with it small quantity of geueral merchandise. On {Saturday last Mr. Alvurd held aa auction sale, when he ntfewul the effects of the lute Mr. Theodore Xurinami, for which satisfactory prices with r<-idi>«d. On the same day Mr. Alvurd also submitted to public competition u lnr;;e assurttuent of drapery, fancy goods, ami provisions. The drapery and fancy goods were sold without reserve and brought lair prices. (•'or lbe provisions, &c, the prices realised one us follows :—(iin, Hr 2'> per case ; geneva, in bulk, SI per gallon; keroseni, ♦si: T.'. per wise; N. Z. bread, S4 per tin: X. Z. beef, «7:o0 per keg: J-lioxes tea. **:5U; N. Z. snip, *.'•:•'«) per case; .\./,. dluur, in tins. ;)c per lb.