TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5325, 8 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL.

(by special wire.) CuitiSTCnuncii, March 7. The beginning of the month always brings with it a certain amount of country bidders, and this week lias been no exception to that rule. An improvement iv business has consequently been perceptible. Teas, however, are slow of sale, prices ranging (in bond), at from Is 2d to Is 6'd for old crop, and Is 4d to 2s 4d new season's. Sugars are also quiet at late rates ; brewer's crystals have been placed at £32 10s. The agents for Porter's " Bulldog " brand, reported that all their shipments advised have been placed to arrive ; a first shipment of Bass's, bottled by Stone, lias been taken up at 12s ; and a line of Porter's Bulldog has found buyers at 11s ; B. D. lias found buyers at lls 6d ; in Bass's bulk Ale (new beer is in request), sale 3 are making at £9 5s and £9 15s. Spirits continue unusually quiet, the 'wholesale houses being fully stocked, whilst the trade are only purchasing for actual requirements ; Hennessy's bulk is at 9s 6d to 10s, and 33s for case ; Martell's dark is scarce, and commands 10s. Kerosene lias been in improved business, without any alteration in rate ; Diamond and Devoc's have been placed at Is, high test brands Is 8d to Is lOd. Candles are without change, very little doing. In corn sacks there has been a steady business. Wool sacks are unnoticed. Cement meets with steady support at 18s to 18s 6d. Q-alvanized iron and fencing wire show no improvement ; sales arc difficult to effect, causing quotations to be merely nominal. A line of halves Sardines has been placed at Bs. In nails sales are reported of Ewbank at 34s ; wire, 19s. Currants have seen a fair business at sid to sid. Figs have been placed in quantities at Is 2d. In hops, a parcel of Kent has changed hands at Is to Is 4i-d. Auckland, March 7. Sharemarket. — Sales : Bank of New Zealand, £17 17s; Colonial Insurance, ss. Buyers : National Bank, 67s ; Colonial Bank, 46s ; National Insurance, 19s. Sellers : New Zealand Insurance, 60s. Mining sales: Caledonian, 265. Buyers : Alburnia, 22s 3d. Sellers : Moanatairi, 50s ; Corby, 10s 6d ? Premier, 7s; Royal Oak, ss. Timabu, March 7. Business continues unusually quiet aud dull for this time of the year, though wliat does tr-anspire is apparently satisfactory. During the week several parcels of grain have been placed in merchants' hands, and in one or two instances the ruling price of 3s lias been oxceeded by Id ; as, however, the lots bought at the advanced rates were to complete shipments, nnd the extra Id was paid as an inducement to hasten delivery on the part of the farmers, the price cannot be nnresi>rvr:dly taken as ruling the market value. Grain is coming forward pretty freely, and some heavy shipments are being made for tho home markets of wheat, both on merchants' and farmers' account. The ruling values to farmers for delivery in town are — Wheat, 2s 10 to 3s ; oats, 2s 3d to 2s 6d ; barley, 4s 3d to 4s 9d. Merchants do not appear to be anxious buyers even at those rates, and transactions are not equal to those of the same period last year in quantity. The quality of the grain now coming forward is not the best for either oats or wheat ; of barley very little is seen. Dunedin, March 7. Produce market. — Wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d ; fowl's feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; oats, new, 2s 6d to 2s lOd ; old, 3s 3d to 5s ; barley. 5s 6d to 6s; feed, 3s to 3s 6d ; potatoes, #5 to £6 ; hay, new, £4 ; old, £6 ; chaff, £4 to £4 10s per ton ; straw, £2 per ton ; bran, £4 ; flour, £9 10s to £10 ; large bags, best quality, £10 ; small, £10 10s per ton ; oatmeal, £19 ; pearl barley, £26 ; onions, 9s per cwt ; cheese, fakl; bacon, 9id per lb. Anderson and Co., millers, report flour in sacks, £9 10s ; oatmeal, £20 ; pollard, £5 ; bran, £4 10s per ton ; pearl barley, £2 ; fowl's wheat, 2s 6d to 3s 3d per bushel ; new oats, 2s 9d to 3s. [by cable.] Sydney, March 7. Hennessy's brandy, case, 33s 6d; bulk, quarters,' 9s 3d; kerosene, Diamond and Devoe's, Is 8d to Is 8jkl ; Patna rice, £28 ; Adelaide flour, from £12 to £13 ; wheat, 4s to 4s sd ; Eaven's twist tobacco, Is 7d.