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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 5005, 5 March 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Lyttelton Times Office, Saturday Evening, Tlie early part of tho week having been given up to holiday making, transactions in the import market have not been numerous. The new month has, however, opened well, and as the damage to crops is not so wide spread as was at first imagined, there is every prospect of a satisfactory business being done through the autumn. Teas have met with fair enquiry, upwards of 1000 packages ex Colibri having been placed already. Prices rule from Is 4d to 2s 3d i.b. for this teas on’s crop, but old teas are offering considerably under these rates without attracting purchasers. Sugars are in steady demand by the trade, finest whites realising up to £SO d.p., but stocks of this description are considerably reduced. Bottled ales and stout of first brands are low in stock, and command full rates. Bass’ pints are cleared out of first bauds. Prices rule at from 1 Is 3d to 12a 6d for quarts, and 8s to 9s for pints of favourite brands of ale. Guinness’ stout realises 11s to 12s 3d, and 7s 9d to 8s 3d for quarts and pints respectively ; Blood, Wolfe’s, 11a 8d to 11s 6d. Brandy meets with ready sale ; Hennesay’s bulk at 9s 6d to 9s 9d, case 335. Whiskey is firm at 5a 6d to 6a 6d, according to brands; not much business doing. Swaine Boord’s eld tom is largely held, and cannot be quitted at above 14s. Cornsacks have been in good request at 9s 6d to 10s. Kerosene—Stocks of this article are again exhausted, but we note the arrival of the Wm. Cobb at Wellington with 1650 cases for this market, which may be expected in the course of a fortnight. Galvanised iron meets with more inquiry, and realises £3l 10s to £32. Fencing wire is selling at £lßlos for No. 8; the demand limited. Cement is considerably reduced in stock, causing holders to be firm at 18s to 18s 6d. Hops have not received much attention, and we have no transactions to report. Holders show no inclination to force sales. Prime new Kents are offering at 2s 4d, and Californian at Is ICd. Clover seeds are coming into notice as the sowing season advances. Current prices for parcels are—for white and red clover, Is Id; cow grass, Is 2d; alsike, Is 4d; timothy, 9d. The Warwickshire arrived from London on Feb. 23, with a large general cargo. The Customs’ revenue collected yesterday, amounted to £1149 5s lOd. The following wore the items:—-pints, 359 J gala, £216 18s 2d; wine, 41{ galls, £8 7s 2d; ale, 2506 galls, £125; tobacco, 368 lbs, £46 ; oilmen’s stores, 503 pckgs, £167 6a 2d; Ironmongery, 19 cases, £6 16a ; tea, 10431b5, £26 Is 6d; sugar, 32,0371b5, £133 9s 9d ; cornsacks, 20 bales, £2O 8a; drapery, 62 cases, £356; apparel, 2 cases, £l2 4i; sundries, £3l 5s Id. Mr Robert Wilkin reports for the week ending March 1, as follows :—Wool—About 100 bales were cotalogued for sale to-day, bat the sale bad to be postponed through unavoidable circumstances till next Thursday, March 8 Sheepskins.—2372 pelts, 396 lambskins, and 273 full wools were submitted at my gale to-day, and all mot with ready purchasers, at a slight decline from last quotations. From causes mentioned last week, assisted by London telegrams of the February sales reporting a drop of a penny to a half-penny per pound on all sorts of wool, the prices are hardly likely to recover for a while. Cross-bred skins, large, full-woolled, Ss 4d to 6s 2d each; medium-sized ditto, 4s 9d to 5s 3d. Merinos, medium to largo, lull-wooled, 5s to 6s each; email and inferior tohaif-wo.ided medium, 3s lid to 4s 6d each. Lambskins, larg >, well-woolled, 2s 4d to 3s 5d each; small and inferior, lOd to Is Gd each. Cross-bred Pelts, large, early shorn and wellwoolled, 2a 7d to 3s 2d each ; small and inferior, late shorn, Is 3d to 2s 3d each. Merino Pelts, large, early shorn, Is 6d to 2s lOd each; small and inferior and late shorn ditto. Id to Is 4d each. Hides are still in good demand, and buyers for local tanning now see the folly of allowing shippers to secure all the hides, when tbe market was at its lowest, and having to come in to meet their present requirements on a rising market. About 80 heavy hides were catalogued and sold as follows: —Green, 3Jd per lb.; salted, 4d per lb. Calfskins, sound, well flayed, 6d por 16,; cut and damaged ditto, 3d per lb. Tallow.—s 4 bags rough fat wore offered i and met with keen competition ; good clean carefully saved, realised 2! J .d to 2;d por lb,; heated and , inferior, IJd to 2d por ib ’ Messrs H. Matson and (Jo. report on the live , stock market, Ac., lor tho week ending Friday, i March 2, as f dl iwh : t the Addington market, on I Wednesday, 5" 15 sheep, 2H cattle, and 229 pigs > wore penned off fur ibn week’s su ply. Miero was > a moderate attendance of purehusers, and sales ' passed off satisfactorily, Uur entries for tho day wore—34o2 sheep, 31 head of cattle, and 144 pigs, i for Messrs George Holmes, liomas Dowling, Wm. i Bong, Leonard White, lido, Wm. Henderson, I Wright and Murray, HeU and I nsor, IJ. Townsend, ! Wm. Henderson, D. Dunn, Marshall, Metcalf, T. I Elder, J. Smith, Hayes, ll> by, Jeffrey, Cutlur, Curi pentcr, Cronin, f.lalnr, Tubman, Daley, Hampton, , M’Connoil, and others In cattle, our entry was i limited to 3! bead, wnleli wo disposed of at ruling i prices, in sheep we cleared all our entries, ul—for 202 crosn-brooK, 2-to,,i lie, for Mr Win, Dong, at i 10s 3d and JO* 6d per bead ; 1"2 do, for Mr Thomas Dowling, at 1 Is .'id ; and 57 merino wethers, at 0s - and On 9d pier head j i ii) on air-bred ewes, at 10h and 10s 6(1, for Wright an-! Murray; -10 crons hreJs, at 11s; 39 do, at tri til; )'.7 do, ut 0s D.l ; mid -44 merinos, at 6s Id per head ; 5 1 5 merino wethers, for 801 l and Kncor, u> m. 9d to t.i 6d por head ; 15 cress breds, al 11a, for D. Dn-ci.n -, 57 cioss-bni'ln, uliJn; 28 merino ewes, at 7s f«J; 13 lambs, ut ! hi, tor W Henderson; 2HIa;:.6 J , at 7", f"i* Mr Maiidiali ; 8o merino wi-there, at 7h and 7n iid, for Mr Metcalf ; 201 merino in-,'ns, nt 4s 9.1 to. 5s ; and 314 .merino wi ilkim, nt. 7n 31 io 7t iid, n-r Mr Goo. llolmu-i ;■'•! era i-hnul two-looth,at,Bsiid, for Mr Elder: 168 I'mihs, inh nor, at Is Do, undi'l ewer, at 5m Id. fo- id r -imil Ii in pigs, wo clco-cd our entry, at, f u- huge, 21. i 64 to ii2n iid per bend ; small, 10i, 12«, to !3i (id per Im.il. i.mtsido, we have placed under < Ifcr . 1 ,(!U cm is-br- dn, Hales of wl.i ih we hope to mport ihirlly. Wmd, Hho"pskimi, Hides, i-.nd T.iDow, - At our weekly sale on i hursday, we c.i'idoiMied i'4 Pah-H wool, and a largo ; ouinti’y of ..liin-., null "I. A-.- h.-ro win a moderate attendance ot hnyms, he w. ~1 m hand war, of r.n ; rtp f vo‘.i r r*' hidingwere rome.-que.ttJy l per lb u..,l ’ r,,! f - 11 crem-breds, P.'d billehcVb’"JreXw Vlt- ';" ,, .. n v ,''" r J-*’ * Kt ■ good ringing"!,.,.,., u rd o’’ T o' I ‘ ,r<U, ' nr y »•’> i merino 2s -Id e.iei, • n..ii I 'to _s (ul each ; best, P each; best o vam T 7 7 ls . ,!a >. 2b l);l each. * t-o .j* . fair to yood* 2* 2d to Hf p uSswagr fe'sgvajsaSi

business haa boon transacted to day, though wo note a very much improved tone In regard to sugar, wliiob is now again beginning to attract a considerable amount of attention. This, however, la the most noticeable feature, comparatively no inquiry being experienced for other merchandise. Broad- ■ tuff a ate Urm. Flour la moving oil privately at iu IBs 6d to £l4 15b. At auction, £l4 12s 6d was realised.' Wheat is wanted, and 6s 7tl Is freolrMTor* iuir but os the quantity placed on tho martlet for utn Isluoinsldorobie, transaction!? aro unimportant. Wo boar, however, of a lino of 500 bags having boon nlaced on private terms. A small parcel wan sub-, initted to competition at auction, but not sold, Oats are moving off steadily ; publloly, sales wore made In tho forenoon at Bs Od to 3e 7d for feeding, And 3h lOd for milling. Privately, a Hno of 300 bags Now Zealand vas sold at 3a Bd. Latest inforiiiatlon by letter from Launceston states that only a small quantity of now oats lias yet come to market. Tlio yield is turning out very light. Adklaid*.— Tho Observer reports on tho breadstuffs market, under date Fob, 18> t—' Tho market opened very urm, with quotations for wheat at us per bushel for small lots, ond for largo shipping parcels 6s 2d to 6s 3d, During tho week themarkefc hardened. Holders have been asking an advance on these prices, and 6s 4d, 6s sd, and 6a Od was asked for largo parcels, but wo bnvo no transactions reported. For small lots 6s 2d Ims boon given. The market is, to-day, quiet, quotations being for parcels 6s 3d to 6s 4d, and for small lota 6a Id to 6a 2d per bushel. During tho week a parcel of 10,000 bushels changed hands at 6s 2d on tho jetty at Port Pirio, and a small parcel at Port Broughton at Gs 3d. Quotations for flour in our last stood at £ls per ton for town, and for country £l4 ss. There havo boon sales of country up to £l4los j and present quotations are for town £ls to £ls se, and tor country £l4 5s to £l4los. Bran and pollard aro quoted at Is 4Jd to Is sjd per bushel for liran* and la 6d to Is 7d for pollard. Now Zealand oats, 3s 2d to 3s 3d per bushel. The exports of wheat tor tho week ending Fob. 10 reached 805 tons, and of flour 417 tons, making a total exportation for the year so far of 6519 tons of wheat and