COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. (PER ARAWATA- UNDATED.) Melbourne. New teas are selling at full rates. Sugar advanced. Oats 5s 2d. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Timaru, July 22.

North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1946, 23 July 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. ( PER ARAWATA- UNDATED.) Melbourne. New teas are selling at full rates. Sugar advanced. Oats 5s 2d. (PER PRESS AGENCY.) Timaru, July 22.

Messrs Joxas, Hart, and Wim>ie report for the week : — Fat cattle— scarce, but saleable ; 42 head sold at L 9 5a to Lll 10s, equal to 32s 6d per 1001b. ; store cattle, unsaleable ; milch cows in demand, at LlO 10s to LI 4. At the soles of sheepskins, hides, and tallow, the bidding was very brisk, and the" prices satisfactory. Heavy cross-bred skins, 5s to 6s ; medium do, 3s Id to 4s sd ; merino, 2s 2d to 3s 9d ; hides, 21b 6d ; rough tallow, 21s 2d 5 heavy staunch draught mares and geldings, L 55 to L 6 5; medium do, 1/42 to LoO ; light do, L2B to L 34 j hacks and light harness, L2B 10s to L3l.

ADELAIDE.- The "Observer" reports under date July Oth, on the breadstuffs market : — The week's operations in the breadstuffs market have been characterised by extreme dullness. Very little business has been done beyond supplying lecal demands. Buyers' prices, town and port, are, small lots, 5s to 5s Id ; shipping parcels, 5s Id to 5s 2(1. Country flour is quoted at Lll to Lll 5.i. It is stated that the Chacma has been chartered to carry breadstuffs to the United Kingdom at 303. The flour market ia very dull We quote town brands at from Ll2 to Ll2 ss; and country, Lll 5s to Lll 10a. Bran continues firm at 1b 4d. New Zealand oats command from 4s 9d to 4s lOd. There are enquiries for malting barley at from 5s 6d to 6s. The exports for the week ending June 29th were — Wheat, 1C95 tons; flour, 1102 tons : making total export for year up to that date, 06,981 tons wheat, and 37,134 tons flour.