Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 241, 12 September 1872, Page 6

Commercial.

September 7. Grain and breadstuffs are unchanged. Stocks of prime wheat are becoming exhausted, and the value, in consequence, has strengthened. Parcels are held for 5s 4d and 5s 6d. Transactions are very limited, however, at the latter quotation. Second class samples are unsaleable. Fowl wheat is wanted, but there is no improvement in the price, which remains at 3s. Malting barley is in demand at from 53 6d to 6s ; feeding sorts have a good sale at 4s 6d. Good milliug oats have met with a better enquiry ; several parcels have been placed at 2s and 2s 2d ; feeding lots are dull at Is lOd. In flour, good brands have met with a firstrate sale at Ll3 and Ll3 10s. Stocks are heavy, although they will soon become low if more wheat is not offered. Inferior flour is in steady demand at Lll. Bran has been advanced to L 4 ; the enquiry is good, and stocks are low. Pollard, Lo 10a. Oatmeal, Lll 10s. Hay, L3los. Chaff, L3 los. Hraw, L 2. Potaoes, L 7 for Provincial ; L 6 for Australian.

A. Mercer reports for the week ending September 7 :— Retail prices only, fresh butter in 41b and lib prints, best quality, Is 4d to Is 6d per 1b ; second quality, Is 4d ; fresh butter in lumps, Is 2d ; powdered and salt butter, best quality, Is 2d ; second, lOd to lid. The supply of fresh butter still continues on the increase ; the fall in price, ex* pected in my last report, has not yet taken place however, but may be expected shortly, as the quantity received by storekeepers generally more than meets the demand. Good samples of new season salt butter are not to be had, and are worth from Is to Is Id per Ib. Cheese is in good request ; good samples are scarce however, and worth 8d to 9dperlb; second quality, 6d per Ib. Side and rolled bacon is fetching 9d to lOd per lb. Eggs continue very plentiful with a large demand existing at Is per dozen.

Sporting. — Preparations are already being made in Canterbury for the racing season. On the last trip of the Phoebe, five horses purchased in Auckland by Mr Redwood were brought down ; four of them are engaged for the Derby, and amongst them i* a filly out of Miss Waimea, the dam of the renowned Manuka, which wop everything he started for a year or two ago. The Taranaki brought down Mr Waller's mare Yafcfavißft,

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