COMMERCIAL.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 65, 31 July 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

DUNEDIN. July 27. WHOLESALE • PRICE-i. Cheese—Gd to G-id per lb. Onions—2ss to 235. Wheat—4s to 4s 4d ; fowls' feed, 3s to 3s Gd per bushel. Flour—Large bags, £ll ; small, £ll 10s. Oatmeal—£2o per ton. Barley—os Gd to 6s Gd ; 3s Gd per : us'id. Pearl Barley—£24 per ton. Oats, 4s; feed, 3s 9d to 3s lOd per bushel. Straw —-£2 per ton. Hay—£F> per ton. Potatoes—£4 to £4 5s per ton. Bran- £5 10s per ton, including bags. Pollard —£6,per ton. Chaff —£4 10s per ton. En the wholesale market prizes are much the same as have ruled for the past month. There is not much doing in wheat, but oats of necessity continue in good demand. Potatoes show an upward tendency, as some of tbe crops have been damaged by the inclement weather. In he labour market the dry weather has been favorable to those who live by casual employment. The building trade is very brisk, and is likely to continue so in Dunedin for some time to come. Shepherds, dairy folk, a d experienced servants and hotel hands need not remain idle. We could well afford to dispense with a number of unemployed here, however, from broken down M.Ai's to unsteady lumpers ; but they will not leavo Dunedin. The following rates are "by an employment agent : —Wages : Couples, £65, £7O, to £9O ; dairy hands and knockabouts, 15s, \2o?>*and 25s ; ploughmen, £55, £OO, al<d £65 ■ shepherds, £65 and £7O ; hotel gfrls, 15s, 20s, and 30s ; private house do, and farm do. 10s, 12s, and 15s ; cooks, waiters, boots, grooms, &c, 20s to 40s ; boys and girls, 5s to 10s ; station smiths. 50s and found ; grooms and gardeners, 25s to 35s. — ' Morning Hera hi.'

CHIIISTOHURCH. July 2G. A line of 40,000 bushels of wlie.it lias been placed for home shipment, at 4s Gd; and a similar quantity for speculative purposes at prices withheld. Some large purchases are pending between millers, whose grinding stocks arc limited. Flour, £l2. in sacks ; bran. £5 ; sharps, £6 The supply is not equal to the demand. Oats sre scarce, demand heavy. Feed, 4s ; milling, 4s 3d. Bailey is much wanted. Best samples nre worth 5s 6d to Gs, and ordinary 4s 9d. Potatoes are held for higher rates. Stocks in second hands are heavy, but there is little or no provincial demand, and prices are likely to recede as the season advances. Nominal value, £4. Hams and bacon, 7-id ; cheese dull, at■<s£<! ; butter, lOd , ASHBUBTON. July 26. Messrs Bullock and Co sold at Ashburton on Friday last 29 quarter-acre sections beh'UgiiJg" to Dr Trevor, at an average price'of £23 ]2s each. Thirty-three olhers belonging to Mrs M'Lcn.n, ave.rage price £SB 15s. Two farms sold on m-count of Mr James Bishop brought £ls and £l4 10s per acre respect've!y. A town section near -the triangle brought £4OO. Section No 757 fetched £9O. No. 77, £52 10s ; No. 81, £35. A quarter-ace with four'-roomed cottage at Trevortown, £3OO. A quarter-acre with two-roomed cottage in Burnett-street was sold for £l7O.