Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 256, 26 December 1872, Page 6

Commercial.

In grain but little business has been done this wtiek... Wheat: may be. .said to be out .of the market. Excepting a few lots grown in the Southern districts, there is' none- to .be had ; 5s 9d is the value of prime samples. : -Of class tljere is a gqod dealofi^ririg I .'* Fftoa-tfheat is wanted, and for good samples 3s 9d can be got Oats continue dull. Middling have a very limited demand at 2s 2d, and feeding are | only in trade enquiry at 2s. Malting barley is lon sale at 6b 6d ; no transactions on account of scarcity. Inferior kinds are placed from 4s 6d to 5s 3d. Potatoes.— Good Provincial, exceedingly dull, L 2; new crop, Lls. Flour has a first-rate trade sale at Ll4to Ll4 los. Stocks in town and country are light. Second-class flour, LI 1. Bran is scarce, L 4. Pollard, L 5 10s. Oatmeal, Lll 10s. Pearl barley. Hay, L3 lss. Chaff, L 3 15s. Straw, L 2 10s. A. Mercer reports, for the week endirg December 21 : Retail prices only — Fresh butter, in ilb and lib prints, best quality, 8d to 9d ; second quality, 7d per lb j fresh butter in lumps, Bu to 7d ; powdered and . salt butter, Bd. The market still continues overstocked - -with fresh butter, although many of the dairy , farmers are salting it down with the expectation of getting better prices 'at the fall of the season. There is no demand for salt butter, in ■ kegs, and there is a great quantity in the market ;.-, for good samples 7£d is asked. Chee3e is getting . more plentiful, but ,reajUy good samples are scarce ; best quality, 9tT ; second quality^ 7d tp 8d ; English hams, la 4dto 18/6JI per lb ;. Colonial hams, Is per lb ; side and rolled bacon, Bdto9ij[ per lb. The market 'is overstocked with eggs, and a fall in' price expeoted- Belling at Is to Is ?dperdo?«u „. .. ■(„.».>.