COMMERCIAL. DUNEDIN WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 185, 24 August 1871, Page 4

COMMERCIAL. DUNEDIN WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT.

Provincial flour, £15 ; brnn, 703 ; oatmeal, £14 10s per ton; barley, fine multing samples, 3s to 4s ; good barley. 3s 9rl to 4s 6d ; pearl barley, £20 ; chaff, 80s : potatoes, 60s to 70s, nominal. Colonial butter, prime, lOdto lid ; Akaroa cheese, s id to 7d ; colonial hams, ]0U; do bacon, 9d. Tea (duty paid) — Common, Is 91 ; good medium, 2s 3d to ".!8 6I ; superior kmus, 2s yd to 3s 3d ; boxes, 303 to 36s ; orange pekoe, 23 9d to 3s 3d. Sardines — qrs, 8s 6d ; halves, 13s. Candles — Is to Is Id. Kerosene — 3s 2J, duty paid. Dried Fruits— Currants, s^l; Sultana raisins, 7£d to 8d ; Elemes, 6d. Sugar (duty paid) —Fine whites, £50 to £54 , grey crystals, £49 to £51 ; yehow do, £47 to £50 ; tpllow counter, £4<j to £47 ; ration, £34. Victorian whites, £54 to £56. Spirits (in bond)— "Rrancliea, Martell'B or Hennessy's, 8s 6d to 8s 9d per gallon ; ea»e, scarce. ; Otard'a, 8s ; other brund9, 7* 6d to 8i; Martell's, in c«se, 325; Kennes<y's, d •, 34*. Whisky, Scotch, 5* to 5« 6d per gallon ; Irish, 7s ; Stewart's do, in cisp, 13s 6d. Rum, 4- 9d to ss. Geneva JDKZ, per case, 14s to 14s 6d. Old Tom, per case, 15s 6d. Markets firm. Messes. Wright, Stevenson, and Co. report, for the week ending 19th August, as follows :—: — Fat Cattle. — 54 head of prime to middling quality were yarded, which we sold at from £4 17s 6d to^ll 103 per head, equal to 255. per lOOlbs for prime quality ; and 18s to 20s for middling ditto. Fat Sheep. — About 1300 were penned, a number rather beyond the requirements of the trade, but as the greater part of them were prime quality, they brought full rates. We sold 350 ewes, middling quality, at 6a &d } and 370 crawlers at 3a 6d. We also sold privately 500 merino wethers at 3d per lb. Other sales con-" sisted of 200 half-breds, prime quality, at 18s 6d ; merino do ; 11s to 13s 3d. We

quote prime quality half-breds, 3£d per Ib ; do merinos, 3d.

Store Cattle and Store Sheep. — No transactions. -

Horses. — Our yards continue glutted with light and inferior stock, which are very difficult of sale. Good heavy draught mares and upstanding saddle and light harness horses are in demand. We quote first-class draughts, £40 to £50 ; middling do, £25 to £30 ; good hacks and light harness horses, £15 to £25 ; middling do, £10 to £12 ; light and inferior, £3 to £6.

Grain. — Wheat, no really good samples are offering, and quotations are unaltered. For oats there is a slight demand at low rates. Barley continues neglected.