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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1953, 20 October 1863, Page 2

MONBTABY AND OOMMJGLtafAJL

WELLINGTON COMMERCIAL. (FBOM OUK OWN CORRESPONDENT.)* October li. I have nothing to report since my lost except that the N.Z.S.N. Company have purchased the ' Rangtitira' for £11,000. lam iiulebteil to Messrs. G H. Lexfad and Co., for the following commercial report to lutesfc date : — We have no change to noto since our lasb report. Goods have continued to flow in until inoit of the denier* are oveistocked, and ns large supplies are on the way in the ' Affianc6' and ' Wild Duck,' we may look for low prices for some time to come. With such a market it is impossible to give quotations with anything like accuracy, and until a greater demand springs up with the fine weather and coining wool season, we must content ouroolvos with the fact that hitherto, there havo been no foiced sales aud that, as a rnle, nltliough it may be difficult to effect salon to any extent, goods still carry a fair profit on cost and charges Eastern pioduco is dull of snlo and market overstocked, especially in uugsxvs, which are impossible to quit at anything like cost. Box Tea lms been enquired for, good qualities being readily saleable at 82s. 6d. Other sort* — market full. Flour is advancing and may be quoted at 20s. higher although the opposition of tho mills have kept down prices hitherto. Brandy— Martell's is worth 11s. 6d. Other sorts ars unsaleable. Ale and PonTEn.— Draught has reached v* in large quantities and importers have had to submit to a decline. Bottled Porter ii scarce. Maize. — Large stockit, price 6». 6d. to 7s. Oats. — Laige stocks, 7s. Hay.— £B to £9 per ton for upland. Adelaide pressed £10 to £12. Fat Cattle still maintain their price in spite of the discontinuance of shipments to tho south, and are worth readily 44d. We have heard of sd. but only in extreme cases where tho butcher has been hard pressed and obliged to buy for daily consumption. Fat Sheep are worth from sd. to 5Jd , but will not command that figure so soon as *liearing hns fairly set in, theie being large numbers ready for market. Stove Cattle.— -No enquiries at present. The failure of G. S. Halloran, who has continued in the export trade up to the last moment, will stay the demand for stores, ns wo should fancy no one is likely to take hin place. There is no luck of cattle, but tho graziers will, we should think, hesitato in future before they part with them without the cash. 80s. to 100s. per head for mixed cattle, if good average quality, is about tho market price, though probably less would be taken. Stove Sheivp. — There is a good demand for stoic ewes, and some enquiries for wethers, but few will change hands until after shearing.

From Melbourne we (Sydney Herald) have papers to the sth instant. The An/us leports as follows :—: — The week has been a remarkably dull one, oven for this the dullest season of the year. The diffciences between tho banks, ns to tho rates to be paid and to be received for money, have not yet led to any concession of accomodation to the public. The competition to purchase gold hns been very keen, and the producers of this great staple of Australian export have reaped a temporary advantage fioin the circumstance of their produce being bought at one and a half per cent, premium, for shipment to a market afc which it is saleable at par. The exact quotation for to-day cinnot be given, as prices differ widely at the various gold-fields. The sellinsr rates of exchnngo on England are quoted at 1 per cent, premium for sixty days, Ii per cent, premium for thirty days. In the stock and share market a very limited business lias been done ; there have been fewer sellers than for many weeks post. Government debentures havo been wanted in small sums for investment, and transfers have been made at 108. Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway shares have been t alt en at £52 10s. Insurance sliaies are firmly held for the top quotations.

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Now Publishing, nnHE SOUTHERN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, No. VIII— For October, CONTAINS : Mor.E —Chapters VII., and VIII. By tho River. Tho Waitara. Mrs Simpkinson's Party— Concluded. Modern Poets — lion Mis Nokion. Merc-Mere. A Converted Gauger. Sketches fiom Canada. The Wraith of Odin. On the Cultivation of Bulbs— D. II \.y. Monthly Litorary Review.

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