COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 8879, 16 July 1892, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

B-iainesß has continued quiet in the Import market during the week. Sugars ate moving off at L2 i tor finest whites, and gr*js at L2o to L 25 Only Borting op parcels of teas are chvgiu* hands. Ftuita are slow, currantß sellii k from 4} i; suHanas, 631 to 6d ; elerms, 5d to b\ 1. Tinned fish Is only in limited inquiry ; ordicary brands of salmon ate offering from 7* 3d: eardlnes—halves 7«, quarters 4s, ling cjd. Only a small trade la passing in kerosene. Dressed J*pan rice goes into consumption at L2O 10j: Fatoa, L2l 10a. The buriDu-M done is spirits and beers haa been rather limited. A return prepared by Mr P. Cunningham, of Chriatcnurch, summarises the quantity of frozen meat exported from the colony during the *tz months ended June 30 last The total ghlpme .ts were 1,853,347 carcasses of sheep and 293 000 lambs, against 1,500,958 sheep and 357,916 lambs for the corresponding six months of last year.

THE LABOR MARKET. Mr Skene reports -.-"The demand fluctuates with the weather at this season, but upon the wbo'e country work 1, fairly plentiful, and there are no complaints about wageß going. PROPEKTIf SALE. The Mutual Agency Company of, New Zoaland, Limited, as agentj for Mr John Reid, report having sold by anotion, at their rooms, Jetty street, Dunedio, this day, 176 aores of light bush land, situated at Mount Charles, lu the Peninsula district, at. L 3 Is per acre, Mr John Nyhon being the purchaser.