COMMERCIAL.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 107, 14 January 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Auckland, Friday. Ttere has been no business of any moment transacted. Meivhints and stovekocpera alike state that things have not yet got into working trim. Advices from England respectiug the advance m galvanised iron tivo likely to effect prices here, as stocks are of a meagre description, and any coming forward will have to be offered afc a premium upon present quotations, and holders of Gospel Oak are accordingly asking £30. Oils are firmer m tone ; raw linseed m drums are quoted at 4s 3d. A good demand .exists for salt, parcels of five and ten tons are moving off at £6, m equal proportions of fine and coarse. Sortie nas been sold, to . arrive, iv quantity at iJo. Advices from Melbourne and Sydney, regarding the rise intbe.priije of oats ,hav,e not affected the values here-; jarge parcels fire offt-i'ed at 2s 3d to 2s 6d : bran plentiful, offered as low as £5. . East Coast muise ha 3 arrived, and changed hands nt 3s 4d to 2s Gd. Potatoes coming to hand freely, and offered a3 low as £4 10s to £5. Bank and insurance stocks are gradually advancing m price.

. ._.-■■ Dtjnb-dik, Friday. "Produce Mavfcet. — Wheat, "43. 9d to 5s : fowls' wheat; 3s. 9d to 4s 1 oats, Is 9cl to Is lid, milling 2s; barley, 5s to 5s 6d, feed 3s lo 3s 6d ; potatoes, £6. 5s to £6. IQs per ton, accoi'ding-to quality ; now kidney, potatoes, 9s ; new round potatoes, 7s ; hay £ I ; chaff, £4 to ■SA 5s ; straw, £0 5s ; b;-a,u, £L 10s; pollard, £0 ; flour, large sauis, £11 10s to £12 ; oatmeal, £12 ; pearl barley, £26 ; onions, 25s ; old cheese, 8d ; new 7d; prime beef, 25s per lOOlba ; mutton, l^d to lfd per Ib, ' ■Wellington;, Jan 9, James O.Sliea reports — Flour, £1 duty, Adelaide, £17 10s to £18 : Canterbury, £12: to £12 10s ,- Oamaru; £10 10s to £13 ; sharps, -5s lOd ; bran,' lOd tols; oats 23 'll£d m cloth, best made.