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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 985, 5 July 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Melbourne, June 23. In the import markets trade lias shown little improvement. Flour is in good demand at £l6 15s bo £l6 10s. Fine wheat is scarce. Sales of Adelaide have been made at 7s 4d. Inferior to good may be purchased at 6s 6d to 7s. Oats are quieter, few lots being on the market; quotations aro very firm at figures ranging for 3s for common feeding to 3s 5d for fine milling. A line of 3000 bushels of Now Zealand oats was sold at 3s. There is a good inquiry for candles, and offers for Brandon's at Hi have been freely mnde without being responded to. Soda crystals are moving upwavds; Victorian makers have now raised their price to £l3 10s to £l4. Trade sales of woolpacks are mentioned at 5s 6d; In liquids wo learn of sales of Martell's dark brandy at 6s 9d ; 10 per cent. o.p. rum is also reported to have been placed at 3s. Further shipments of Tennent's bottled ale have come to hand. Sugars are freely held for an advance. Sydney. Flour, £ls 10s tu £ls 15s. Adelaide. Prime wheat, 6s ; inferior, 5s lod ; country flour, £l3 ; town, £l4. Wellington. Markets unchanged. Butter still scarco. Oats, 2s 9d to 3s. Auckland. Wheat is quoted at 5s 6d. Provisions are unchanged. The flour mills still quote £l6 for best brands; household, £ls. Adelaide has been sold at £l6 10s to £l7. Oamaru, Canterbury, and Otago have realised £ls for the best brands. The very best oats are worth 2s 9d per bushel, and the stocks aro large. CnßisTcnuKcn. Flonr, £l3; butter, scarce, BJd to 9d; hams and bacon, 7d to 7sd. Choice congous aro scarce at 2s to 2s 2d in bond ; medium and low teas range from Is 1-Jd to Is Gd ; gunpowder tea is very saleable, medium qualities finding tho best support. Kent hops are working oIT but slowly at 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; Tasmanian hops have found a ready market; for extra choice samples 2s to 2s Id is quoted; inferior and faulty range from Is 3d to Is 6d. Oamaru. Best samples of milling wheat are worth 4s 9d : flour, Ll3 to Ll3 10s ; barley, malting, 4s 6d ; oats, Is 6d to Is 8(1 ; oatmeal, Ll3 ; pollard, L 4 ; bran, L2 10s. Dunedin. In sugars, tho following prices were realised at auction:—First while crystals, L4l 15s to L 43 per ton ; second white crystals, L3B to L 39 ; and, third white, L 37 5s ; one small lino « of pale yllow crystals brought 1.3(5 Ids, nnd one small Hue of brown crystals, L 35. Invehcaroill. Cheese—English Is 2d, colonial 4d to 6d, provincial, 2d to 4d ; bacon, provincial, 4d to

sdj ham a, provincial, 6d to 8d; oats, Is 6d to Is 9d ; wheat, 4s to 4s 9d ; barley, 4s to 6d ; flour—town made Ll4, Otago Ll4, Adelaide L2O; oatmeal, town made, Ll7 per ton; bran, L 3 15s; pollard, L 4 ; oaten hay, L 3 10s ; chaff, L 3 10s to L 4.