Commercial Report.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 38, 12 May 1869, Page 4

Commercial Report.

Neison, May 12. The flour market during the past month has been unusually depressed, all the markets on the Coast being heavily glutted with importations from the neighbouring Colonies and from Canterbury. The stocks in Nelson are also large and sales dull. The price is nominally £16, but that is higher than can be obtained on the West Coast. The market is tolerably well supplied with imports except sugars, which are exceedingly scarce, but Messrs. N. Edwavds and Co., have received advices that the ."Norwegian brig Snorre Stonelassen, with a cargo of Mauritius sugar, was to leave Port Louis on the 15th of March, so that her arrival here may be looked for daily. The southern markets are also ill supplied with sugar, and a shipment of sixty-five tons was made to Dunedin on Monday, in the Alhambra. Tho Malay, the third wool ship of the season from Port Underwood, sailed on the 2nd instant with 1,462 bales wool. In a letter to the Marlborough Express, Captain Peters stated his willingness another season to load his vessel in tHe Wairau River, and so save the cost of carriage to Port Underwood. This would be an important saving to the Wairau flockowners, and the Malay when loaded drawing only twelve feet, she might safely have crossed the Wairau bar this season, but it by no means follows the bar would be in tho same Btate next year. We are glad to find a favourable report has been received of samples of washed wool sent from the station of tho Hou. T. Eenwick, in the Awatere. The broker's value is Is. lOd. per lb., ft large advance on the price realized by wool washed in

the ordinary manner of the district. We have heard of another washing apparatus about to bo erected in Marlborough —Messrs. N. Edwards and Co. having made arrangements to wash their flock on their Avondale run, and also to erect a small boiling-down apparatus on the same spot. This will be the first boiling-down establishment in the Wairau, and if the other flockowners of the district unite and erect one on a large scale, they will reap tho benefit of their outlay. The following are our quotations: — IMPOSTS.

PRODUCE. Gom>, £3 Bs. 6d. to £3 ]sa. per ounce. Wool, in grease, fid. to 7d. ; clean, Bd, te lOd. "Wheat, ss. to ss. 6cl. per bushel. Oats, 3s. 9d. to -13. per bushel of 40lbs. Barley, 6s. per bushel. Floub— Rod and Houusell's, £16 per ton j Adelaide, £18. Potatoes, £4, per ton. Pollard, Ss. per 100 lbs. Sharps, 10s. per 100 lbs. Bran, Is. od. to Is. 6d. per bushel. Bbicks, £& per 1,000 (delivered), Chebsb, Nelson, lOd. „ Canterbury, lOd. Sawn Timber— Red Pine, 20s. per 100 feet. Laths, 2s. per bundle. Alb— Hooper and Co.'s XXX, £6 per hlid., 2s. 6d. per gallon. >» „ „ prime Bottled, Bs. per dozen. „ „ „ best Porter, £6 per hhd., 2s. 6d. per gallon » i> >, „ bottled, Bs. per dozen. Hat-ley's XXX, £0 pei- hhd. „ best XXX., 2s. Gd. per gallon. „ do., bottled, Bs. per dozen. Field's XXX, £d per hhd. „ XX, 2s. per gallon j Table, Is. 6d.

alb— £ s. d. £ a. d. Bottled, per dozen, quarts . . . 011 6too 12 6 •> » pints . . . 0 80 „ 0 8 6 PonXEH— Bottled, per dozen quarts . . . 011 6 „ 012 6 » „ pints . . . 0 8 0 „ 0 9 0 Candles — Belmont (sperm), No. 1, per lb. ... Oil Stearine, full weights 0 1 OJ „ lightweights (none) Sydney Moulds 0 0 9J Melbourne Moulds ...... 009 Coals — English, per ton , 2 6 0 New South Wales, per ton to ships . . . 20 0 Cosfeb— Plantation, per lb. . . . . . . 012 Manilla „ O 1 0 „ 0 1 2 Canister „ 0 1 1 „ 0 1 6 Rice— Patna, per cwfc. . . , . . 110 0 „ 112 0 English dressed 1 12 0 „ 1 14 0 Salt — Liverpool, fine, per ton 6 0 0 „ coarse 4 0 0 SuGABS — Loaf, per ton ....... 63 0 0 Crushed Loaf 60 0 0 Sydney Crystals 68 0 0 Sydney Company's Pieces, No. 1 ... 66 0 0 Sydney Company's Yellows .... 50 0 0 Sydney Company"s No. 3 Pieces .... 48 0 0 Mauritius Crystals (scarce) . . .5200 „ 58 0 0 Light Mauritius „ . . .4600„ 48 0 0 Dark „ „ 46 0 0 Spibits (in bond) — Brandy, Martell's, per gallon (dark) . . . 08 6 „ Hennessy"B, per gallou (pale) . 08 6 » .. in case . . 1 8 0 „ 112 0 „ T. Hine & Co.'s „ . . . .18 0 Rum (W.1.), per gallon ..... 050 Whisky, per gallon ...... 056 „ Stewart's, in case 0 14 6 Geneva, per red case . . . . 016 3 „018 0 Old Tom (Booth's), per dozen . . . . 018 0 M » per gallon .... 046 „ Other brands, per dozen . . . 010 0 Tjja (duty paid)— Congou, per chest . . . . 90 0 „12 10 0 „ per half-chest . . . . 5 0 1 „ 510 0 „ per box . . . . 114 0 „ 116 0 lobacco akd Cigabs (in bond)— Washington, £-lbs., and in bond . , . . 0 2 0 Barrett's Twist 0 1 11 Raglan Twist 0 1 10 Black Hamburg Manilla, No. 2, per 1,000 . . . 60 0 „ 70 0 Winks — (duty paid) — Sherry, good, per gallon . .• . 010 6 „ 014 0 „ „ per dozen . . . 2 00 „ 210 0 Port, per gallon 0 12 0 „ 0 16 0 „ per dozen 2 0 0 „ 210 0 Claret, per dozen (nominal) . . 20 0 „ 30 0 Champagne, per dozen (nominal) . IS 10 0„310 0'