COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2523, 26 February 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Saturday afternoon. Mr. S. Jones sold to-day, at his mart, a splendid shipment of Warrnambool potatoes, which realised 4s 9d per cwt. Mr. It. Arthur reports a good attendance at his market-day sale yesterday, but bidding was not spirited, except for poultry. Potatoes were not equal to the demand. The following are the prices realised :—Fowls, Is -Id to 8d each ; Hamburg fowls, 3s 6J; ducks, Is 3d to 2s 2d; geese, 4s to 4s 9(1; turkeys, none in ; fancy pigeons, Is Gd to 2s G.I each ; potatoes, 4s to 5s Gd per cwt. ; onions, lid to 1M per lb. ; Sydney onions, |d to Id ; bacon, job lines, 2£d to B£d per lb.; butter, second 'quality, 2£d to sid; cheese, 3jd to 4i ; Auckland apples, lid ; quiuees, lid ; Sydney apples, lid to 2jd; maize, 4s Gd per bushel ; flour, damaged, £10 per ton ; sundry groceries and furniture at fair prices. A small lot of jewellery, &c., was sold at paying prices. His sale of fruit today, ex City of Melbourne, was well attended. The following are quotations : Seville oranges, lGs per c sc; line sweet oranges, lis Gd to 12s per ease ; lemons, 16s to 18s per case; pears, lid per lb.; apples, lid to 2.Jd per lb. THE SHAKE MARKET.

Me. E. 18. Robinson reports the market dull; little business; large stocks declining. Prido of Tokatea in demand. I sob I Caledonian, £16 ; Pride of Tokatea, 8s 3d and 8s 6d.

lilt. C. Bukton reports a quiet market. Caledonian, sellers, £17, buyers £1G ; Thames, £5 5s to £5 7s 6d ; All Aat ions, £5 15s; Pride of Tokatea, 8s Gd ; John Bull, 3s ; Tokatea, 45s to 47s 6.1 ; Tookey, £9 ; Nonpareil, 72s 6J ; Multum in Parvo, 5« to 5s Gd. Enquiries for Shotover, Cure, Moauatairi ; Bank and Q-as shares at market rates. Mb. J. M. Lennox's Repobt —The share market continues quiet. Sly s.i. ■ comprise —Caledonian, £16 10s ; Tkauu ~ £5 5s ; Prido of Tokatea, Bs. Closing buyers : Caledonian, £1G ; Thames. £5 5s ; Tookey, £9. Sellors : Caledonian, £1G 10s ; Thames, £5 7s Gd ; Pride of Tokatea, 8s ; Nonpareil. 70s.

Ot.voo. —Usually there is vory little doing in produce about harvesting time, and the present tirao has not proved an exception. The mouth has been very barren of transaction in grain, and in the slender business observable the course of prices has been rather against the grower. Considerable doubt prevails as to the extent to which the extreme dryness of the early summer has affected the crops. There is no doubt but that in some districts the quantity will be short; but the reports from other districts do not point to this state of thiugs, and tho probability is that tho crop will bo nearly an average one. Very few pardls of good old wheats have been latterly offering, but as millers have been very light buyers this bus hardly kept prices up to last rales. Closing quotations —49 6d to ss, with but littlo prospect of an improved trade until the new wheats are available. M-lting barley is much in request; but there are no supplies, and, in consequence, business is impracticable, and quotations of no value until tbs new grain comes iu. Feeding grains have been neglected and the demand for oats confined to local requiremenls. Average samples are worth Is lOd to 2s. There has been a good local demand for flour, at rather easier rates. £12 10s to £13 is tho valuo of the best town brands. Tho value of provisions has, in eousequence of the unusual dryness of the season, shown souio disposition to improvement; but there has, nofwitstandiL>3 this, been no room for shipments of any kind, and for no description of imported goods except a few packages of English hums is there any sale. Quotations, viz.,—English hams, Coey's and Sinclair's, Is 2d to Is 3d ; Coinpton's. Is ; Akaroa cheese, 3.', ito 4d ; Colonial hams and bacon, 8d to s£d ; butter, 7d — Times, Eeb. 17. Oamarc. —New wheat is selling freely at 3s 9d to -is, but only for immediate use. Oats— no Nothing doing in barley. Old flour, £12 10s ; new, £11 10s. Oatmeal, £14-. Pollard, £4. Bran, £3. The oats grown in this district this year promise to be a very fine S'imple. We saw, yesterday at the stores of Messrs. J. Ashcroft and Co., a parcel of short milling, grown by Mr. Cruickshunk of the T.iipo Hill estate, which on being weighed by the " strike" bushel, gave the extraordinary weight of 49.Ubs net per bushel. Another fine sample grown on tho plain by Mr. Lemon, measured at the same time, weighed 47Jlbs per bushel. — Times, Feb IG.