COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Marlborough Press, Volume IX, Issue 595, 10 June 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

DUNEDIN STOCK REPORT. Messrs Driver, Maclean & Co., report— Prime Beef, 37s 6d to 40s per 100 lbs, with a slight upward tendency. Prime Mutton, 3£ to 4d per lb. Store Cattle—Mixed mobs, £7 to £9 10s ; do, Bullocks, 2 to 5 years, £9 10s. Good Dairy Cows, £ls to £2O. Store sheep—Whethers 4-tooth and upwards, 98 to 9s 6d ; ewes, 2-tooth, about 14s ; do, 2,4, and 6-tooth, 13s ; do, full mouthed, about 8s 6d. Lambs mixed sexes, 17s 6d to 18s per pair. PRODUCE REPORT. Mr C. W. Lorenzen, Produce Merchant Princes-street, reports : The grain markets are dull. In consequence of late advices wheat exhibits a declining tendency. Barley is unaltered. Oats are for good ordinary sample worth about 2s 6d. A large supply of Melbourne potatoes to hand, prices from £6 l()s to £7 10s. • The following, are the latest quotations : Wheat.—7s 9d to 8s per bushel; inferior, none offering. . Flour.—l 9 10s per ton ; seconds, £l7 per ton. Bran.—ls per bushel.' Maize.—3s 6d per o bushel. Barley.—Malting, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel. Oats.—2s 6d per'bushel Chaff.—£4 10s per ton. Hay.—Oaten, loose, £4 ; trussed, £4 10s ; per ton: t Straw.—Oat and wheat, £2 per ton. Rye Grass Seed, —5s per bushel. • Peas.—Green, 15s per cwt. Horse beans, 6s per bushel. Potatoes.—Provincial, £7 10s ; inported, £6 10s per ton. Onions.—£B per ton. Carrots.—£3 10s per ton. Bone Dust.—Market well supplied. Corn Sacks.—l7s per dozen by the bale.