COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 7875, 6 April 1889, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

Business during the week has been fairly good. For sugars there is a strong inquiry, and as stocks aro running low prices are steadily advancing. China, in trade lots, brings L 26 10s; fine white Mauritius L2G, greys L 25 10s. Teas meet with moro notice, especially in low to medium half-chests and boxes. Dried fruits continue dull. Currants are worth about sultanas 5Jd, elemes S-id. In fish, Cocktail salmon brings lis 3d, other brands 9s (id to 10s Gd; kippered herrings, 9s 3d to 9s Gd ; sardines—halves Ss to 8s Gd, quarters 4s 9d to 5s ; ling, 5,-Jd. A steady business is passing in spirits and beers at agents' quotations. Oornsacks are firm at 6s 3d; coarse castor oil, 3s 3d. Fine salt has been sold at L 5 ss, coarse up to L 5 10s.

THE LONDON MARKETS.

Tho National Mortgage Company have received cable advice that New Zealand wheat in London fetches 37s 6d per 4961b, and that the market is drooping.

PROPERTY SALES, ETC,

The Perpetual Trustees, Estate, and Agency Company of Now Zealand report the following sales :—IOO-acro faim, blocks 1 and 2, Tomahawk Valley, for LI 750 cash; allotment 6, Warrington Estate, Ll4 per acre; allotment 20, Warrington Estate, L 9 10s per acre; allotment 21, Warrington Estate, at Ll3 10s per acre; and allotment 8, block 12, St. Kilda township, for L 45. Tho company also report the purchase (on behalf of a client) of parts of sections 29 and 30, block 20. Dunedin, with dwelling-house thereon, for L 550 cash. A fale was held at the rooms of the Dunedin Finance, Loan, and 4gency Company, yesterday, when a collection of law reports was put up for auction. The lot (which consisted of nearly 450 volumes, and comprised reports of cases in the House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, Vice-Chancellor's and Exchequer Courts, Common Pleas, Queen's Bench, etc.), was knocked down to Messrs Sievwright and James for Ll5O. A large number of the members of tho legal profession attended.

MINING NOTE,

Messrs J. and W, Gage report receipt of telegram from Rcefton announcing the weekly returns as follows :—From the Kecp-it-Dark Company, 2690z amalgam; from the Globo Company, 2270z amalgam.

THE LABOR MARKET.

Mr Skene reports: Prospects are much more hopeful all round. Late wages : Shepherds, LGO; couples, LGS to L 75 ; genuine ploughmen 20s, second class 15s and 17h Cdi milkers, 10s, 123, and 15a ; boyß for town, 5.H to 10s; grooms and gardeners, 20j and 255: bushmen, 4s and 5s per cord ; Btore hands, 20s and 255; cooks, 2(h and 25?. The building and timber trades are wakening.