Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 254, 12 December 1872, Page 5

Commercial.

Flour has a good trade sale at Ll4 to LI4 10s. Inquiries have been made for speculative parcels, but no transactions of moment have taken place ; holders in town are unwilling to dispose of quantities under Ll4, and at this price' large buyers consider there is not sufficient inducement. The sale for oatmeal is light, 'and the price continues dull at Lll 10s. Bran is not overstocked — %A j pollard, L 5 10s. Potatoes have a bad market. Australian samples are uusaleable at any price ; for good Provincial, IA is the vftiiie. ■ There is a good inquiry for wheat — the market price may. be quoted at Us TE£Tt?t'as there is none offering, a fixed value cannot Tie placed on it. At auction spitie BQO bags brought extreme rates— nearly, equal to Gs on the ordinary trade terms. This price must be attributed to the scarcity of the grain, and uoirto its market value, for flour wpuldiequire'tobc Lls to Lls los if this were the current rate. Second class wheat is plentiful, fowls.' wheat scarce. Oats, dull, 2s to 2s 2d. No barley offering. Malting is valued at (Js (kl ; --damaged, 5s 6d ; hay, L 3 los: chaff, LSvlos ; straw, L!i f>s". " A. Mercer reports, for tlie -week eiiiHj-cj I>ec»mber'7 : — Retail prices) c*Jy — Fresh butter, in £lb ancT lib lumps, best' quality, 8(1 io 9d \ second quality, 7d ; fresli butter in lumps', '(S^i to 7d ; powdered and salt butter, Bd. Tlie market is completely glutted with fresh butter, and the quality very superior this season. There is no demand at present for salt butter in-kegs. Stocks are very heavy in some 'of storekeepers' hands, who are salting now»' large quantities weekly, and large quantities pouring in from the neighboring Provinces, 'either to order or consignment to some of our merchants, destroy what little- Fafe we- niight-h^ve-,. For good samples 7£dto 7.} dis asked. Jheese is now getting plentiful, owing to the new season coming into the market, apd a fall in pride 3riay be; expected. For beat quality old cheese; 9d" to lOd ; new, 8d ; English hams, Is 4d to. Is 6d per lb ; Colonial hams, lOd tols ;* Adelaide bacon, Bdto 9d per lb. * Eggs are plentiful, outs.eUing.weJl at Is 2d per dozen, • . " ' •