COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Oamaru Times Office, Thursday Evening.

North Otago Times, Volume IX, Issue 279, 24 January 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIG ENCE. Oamaru Times Office, Thursday Evening.

The weather .appears to have set f.uv, and with it business prospects have improved. "Wool is now coming down m ooiisiduable quantities. The Stir of Tasmania has upwards of 1800 bales on board, and theie are some 200 bales in town awaiting shipment. Wo heai favoi.ible accounts of tho crops, which are lire said to be generally looking well.

CHRISTCIIURCH. -The " Lyttelton Times," of the 20th instant, lepoits :— Oats of pihne quality weie sold to-day sit 2s a bushel. Flour lemains .it L17 to L18 per ton. Bran aud sli.up3 weio worth L3 10s and Li respectively. ADELA IDE.- -Tolegrams of undoi mentioned dates in files to h.iiid give thu following : — " Janu.ny 7. — The cargo of sugar, ex Nass.uli'ii, w,is offeiod to-day by anction. Twothowsind bags ueie sold at puces borne ■what lower foi whites, but higher for yellows. The cargo of tea, ex Costa Rica, i& ad' r citised for Fiiday. The corn in.ukot is quiet. Old wheat is finn at 7s Difficulty in dealing \\ ltli new whr.it is experienced owing to the variation m fclie quality of the sample. Janua,r38 — The com m.uket is fiunei this afternoon Sales of old wlieat havo been made .it 7i 3d. Pairels of old wheat are getting s<aieo Janumy 9. — 13- st samples of new wheat arc celling to-di> ,it Gs 3d, but few bales have been effected .Sh(>ep «ue woith fioin 7s to 8d nch, and lamb-, fioin .~>s to :">s Gd each. Uest wheaten hay is aelling at L3 per ton. (JASTL13MAINE. — As the hardest rulvancos moio ooi ) ecb opinions ai c foi med as to the extent of the yield, which has in many cases fallen below the expectations formed of it fiom the appeal mce^ of the standing ciop. Aiound the Kytietoti distiiut thu old giouudhfis not been equal to the tuals of tho season, and the produce will not be an v thing to lnvsfc of The ti tdo in floiu has been dull, and to effect sales a slight abatement has been accepted. New w'ie it is .mivi'ig, but no determinate pi ice cm bo quoted, tho vsuioty m quality beii-g '.o wide. I'ollaid is vei v sciice, ami commands hem Is Gd tola 9d Oatme-d h is impioved, 'ind is worth L-5 N"ow Hour is in tho niaiUct, Ijut tiicpnce is iioniui.il. Corbet •iiid Rogeis lepoit old lloui at Llo Ids to L1G ; oa,ta, 4s <o 4s 3d ; in vi/ic, 5i 3d to ."if (id ; hi an, Is ,!d ; wlieat, os 9d to (is i.uimn.il ; pollaul, Is (>d to Is 9d ; colonial o.itinc.il, L25. — iMoiint Alox.india Mail, Jauuaiy 9.