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THAMES SHAKE MARKET. Mr John Frater reports :—Market dull and prices lower. My sales arc—Nonpareil, 70s ; Golden Calf, 27s‘ fid and SOs ; Ruby, 5s Gd and 5s ; Italian, 11s ; Unicorn, 5s aud 4s Gd ; Smiling Beauty, 3s. Sellers —Caledonian, L2l : Cure, 21s ; Nonpareil, 80s ; Otago, 225: Italian, 10s ; Black Angel, 3s fid. Buyers—Golden Calf, Coliban, Messenger’s and Mary Ann. AUCKLAND SHAKEMAKKET. Mr J. M. Lennox reports :—There is an ini' provemeut in business on the Exchange. Moanataiari aud Cure shares in good demand. Caledonian shares arc held firmly, but do not rise. My sales comprise : Caledonian, L2O 10s : Thames. Lo 7s (id, L 5 10s ; Moanataiari, L 4 2s fid ; Bride of Tokatea, Os ; Cure, 225, 22s fid; Italian, 11s (id ; Argo, Is (id ; Central Italy, 355. Closing sellers : Caledonian, L2O 10s ; Thames, Lf> 10s ; Cure, 23s ; Moanataiai i, L 4 2s fid. Buyers : Caledonian, L2O ; Thames, L 5 5s ; also buyers of Bank of New Zealand, Gas, aud Union Sash and Door Company shares. Mr Saunders reports : —Sales this day— Italian, 12s, 12s Sd. 11s fid; Moanataiari, Li and Li 2s Sd ; Cure, LI 2s ; John Bull, 5s : Siege of Paris, 12s fid ; Tokatea, L 4 aud Li 2s fid ; Dixon’s No. 1, L 5 ; Bed Queen, 5s Gd, closing buyers fis. Market elosetl inactive. Demand for Bed Queen and Italian at lower rates. Thames Gas and Bauk shares inquired for. New Zealand Shares in Australia. — The Sydney Morning Herald of February 21 quotes Bank of New Zealand shares, L2O to L2O 10s ; New Zealand debentures, £lO3. Kauri Gum and Flax Market.— We CHerald) quote the following prices on the Auckland market delivered nett cash : Gum—Well scraped, first quality, L 22 to L2i per ton : scraped, other qualities, LlB to L 22. Flax—Finest quality, L 23 to L2G per ton ; fair to good, LI7 to L 23. Tow, iu demand, L 5 to LG. AUSTRALIAN. Sydney. —The Sydney Mor»iny Herald of March 21st reports‘'Breadstuff's remain very firm at fis 3d for old Adelaide wheat, and 5s 1 Id for new ; good samples of colonial bring os Cd upwards, Flour saleable in

small lots, at £l3 10s to £l4 13s. A line of De Roubaix Jcuar’s candles sold this morning at 10.}d ; most holders waut{a higher, figure, as by latest advices they were quoted at Hit iu Loudon. Small lines of plantation coffee have changed hands at DjtJ, with a tendency to advance, the being quite bare of supplies ou 19th ifebrua.y, and no shipments made to Australia during the month previous. Dried fruits are difficult to move ; currants offered at 4Jd, and inferior samples of raisins at nominal figures. The inquiry for fish is not quite so active ; sardines scarce, at 12s for halves, aud 7s for quarters. In liquors, we hear of sales of hulk ale at late rales; brandies firm at 25s Cd for Hennessy’s case, (is 9d to Os IOJd for Martoll’s dark in bulk. (Stiles of Queensland rum at 2s sd, and Lowndes’s 31 o.p. at 3s 8d to 3s fid, The advance iu metals promises to be sustained by holders, who ask from 20s to 40s rise on all descriptions of iron. Teas have been rendered inactive by two cargoes being placed ou the market together. Sugars are beii g quitted by piivate sale at better rates than have been realised at auction lately." Adelaide. —A telegram of the 20tli reports :—“A quarter of the cargo of sugar, per Ponnarou, from Madagascar, was offered this morning, but very little was sold. There was a small attendance. Large stiles of wheat were made this afternoon at 5s old.