TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5337, 22 March 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC COMMERCIAL

[by cable.] I SYDNEY, March 21. Patna rice, £23 ; Adelaide wheat, 5s to 5s _ 3d ; New Zealand wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; ' i: Adelaide flour, unchanged ; New Zealand oats, unchanged ; candles, B£d ; brandy, kerosene, tobacco and sugar, unchanged. (BY SPEOIAIi WIEE.) AUCKLAND, March 21. Stock markets — Bank of New Zealand, buyers, £17 15s ; National, sellers, 68s ; Colonial, buyers, 46s 6d ; sellers, 475 ; New Zealand Insurance, sellers, 60s ; South British, buyers, 53s 6d ; Union, sellers, 13s ; Colonial, sellers, ss; Auckland G-as, sellers, £8 ss; Union Sash and Door Company, sellers, £8 7s 6d j Loan and Mercantile, sellers, £4 15s ; G-uthrie and Larnach's Woodware Factory, sellers, 90s. DUNEDIN, March 21. Mr J. Fleming reports — Wheat, 3s 6d to 3s 9d, fowl's 3s to 3s 6d ; oats, new, 2s 6d to 2s Bd, old 2s 9d to 3s j barley, 5s 6d to 6s, feed 88 to 3s 6d ; potatoes, £4 10s to £5 ; hay, new, £4. old £6 ; chaff, £4 to £4 10s ; straw, £2 j bran, £4 ; large sacks flour, £9 10s, small £10 j oatmeal, £17 ; pearl barley, £26 ; onions. 9s ; cheese, 6£dto 7d ; bacon, 9£d. Mr J. B. Bradshaw reports — Bank of New Zealand shares (new issue), £18 5s ; Colonial Bank of New Zealand, 455 ; National, Insurance, 19s 6d ; South British, 655 ; Union, Insurance, 14s ; Colonial, 4s ; Mosgiel Woollen Factory, 595 ; Union Steamship, £8; Scottish and N. Z. Investment, 17s ; Crowell Quartz Mining, 40s ; Ail Nations Quartz, ss. / Money secured on freehold property at 9 and 10 per cent, per annum. Mr H. Driver reports for the week ending March 19, as follows— For cattle : 187 head were yarded, about half of which were good prime quality, the rest medium and good stores. Competition was rather languid, but for really prime beef prices ruled about the •ame as last week j 14 yarded were sold at from 15s to 30s each. Fat sheep : The number penned for to-day's market waß 2113 ; cross- , breds brought up to Us 3d each ; we quote mutton fully 2d per lb. Fat lambs : 475 penned j we sold 143 at 6s to 7s 3d each. Store sheep: We have buyers for a large number of young merinos, but at present thece are none offering ; quotations for full-mouthed merinos and cross-breds remain unaltered. During the week we sold 1500 store cattle.