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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2908, 24 May 1873, Page 2

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Naw Zealand Hebaxj) Office. Friday eyening. The arrivals this week comprise the Prince Alfred, from Sydney, with 1-iUcS bags bone dust, 77 cases acid, 12 tierces beef, and sundries ; Woodville, from Newcastle, with 580 tons coal.

BufineiS, as we recently reported, has been ■well sustained, so far us goo.ls cleared '.'or home consumption .-ire concerned, with the exception of tie last two days. On the otlu-r hand, transactions have been limited, and stocks, espe.i:;iiy i i bond, are accumulating. Amongst the great variety of imports this month to date, we notice 020 gunnies, 32 bEgs, 25 s, and 5 tierces sugar ; 39u0 bags salt, ]037 candles, 2150 cases kerosene, 123S oases jams ; 6172 centals maize, 120 tons potatoes, GSS9 centals Adelaide wheat, 1900 cases iircen and ripe l'ruits, value, £901; onions, 25fi bags ; bark, 139 tons ; coal, 2031 tons; blasting [.vwder, 230J quarter-barrels, of which 800 have been transhipped to the Thames; c a mv>.r, 1100 b-irreis. lhe otiir-r imports, generally speaking, and with few exceptions, huve been large, especially in certain items of groceries. Kuiia and inuntz metu'. appear to have been overstocked, and Fouie very few other items in metals. Galvanized corrugate I iro;i lias risen to £40 per ton. Fencing wire is scarce, and commands far better T:ilnc* than our recent quotations ; in fa -t, all manufactured iron is held for prices corresponding with the home market-. The clearances for bottled beers hare sutT red a decline, no doubt to the high prices toliciled. Breadstuii'a remain, so fur, in the millers' hands. Large imports of Ade aide wheat enable them to command the market, and at their quotations they, comparatively speaking, shut out Southern fimr, which has come in ra'her epareely of late, —in fact Southern millers can fi»d better markets than applying to Auckland. Best silk-dressed flour is still quoted, at £15 per tun; household, £13; Adeluide, £15, duty paid ; Southern flour, £13 10s to £14; Southern wheat, maximum value, 5s 6d to OS 91; Adelaide wheat, 6s 9d to 7s. Horse-feed : The market is in a normal stale. Oafs are chiefly in one or two hands ( T «y smal sipply), and cannot be landed here under 5s per bushel, and yet the quotation is ss. llaize, as a matter of course, id supplanting oats, and notwithstanding the mouth's imports, still commands 5s per bushel :or the best samples wholesale, although wholesale and retail in this market are equivalent. Provisions, generally speaking, especially hams and bacon of Southern cure, are acknowledged to be scarce, but the auction sales offVr no encouragement to consigning to this market. Cheese occupies precisely the same position. The price of o itmeal does not correspond with Southern quotations. Salt, as will be seen, is very much overstocked, and fine kiln - dried has sold at £-i 10s, delivered ; coarse, 5s below. Fine rice is scarce and dear; medium quality in stock. Fish, of all description?, is completely understocked ; salmon, in tins, none; sardines in good supply; others rerv modernte. Groceries have sold at auction at low prices for new goods, which hardly pay the importers. Candles have sold at llfd per lb.,d.p.,which may be considered the ruling quotation, although this price cannot, under existing circumstances, satisfy the importers. Sugars are getting reduced in stock, with little prcßpect of a reooup, and without preju ice to the general public, the grocers are nrL» ln J? rr - lEtecl in advancing their retail eoi™'f i consumption of teas has been recent imn"? our "Potations, and report:-" We have bocgWera'? ordinary fur gum wttbin the la.t month and the lowest price gtvon wa„ twenty-two pounds sterling per ton (£22)." _ May 23, P 1873 Messrs. Jjewjs .Brot hers report: " hay * sold ordinary fair gum within tiie last thrl« weeks at £23."—May 23, 1873.

Mr. K. Arthur reports haying realised the following prices at his market-day sale: Jowls, Is to 2= 6d eai-ii : Bruljmu. do., 2s Gd to ; Ducks, Is 2d to 2s 7d j turkeys, 2s Id to

is 6ii J geese, 3s to 3s 9d ; Auckland potatoes, 2s 6d to 5s per cwt.; Canterbury do., 5s j carrots, 3s 9d per cwt.; pumpkins, 3a to 3s fid per cwt. : onions, Jd to id per lb.; Hobnrt Town apples, lid to 3d per lb.; ucltlaml bacon and hams, 3d to Sid per lb.; Canterbury do., 9d to lOd ; Knight's jams, 8s per doz.; "fresh butter, 9Ad per lb.; salt, 5d to 7d per lb. ; treacle, per lb.; currants, 3 1 per lb. ; A-sariiines, Si 9d per doz.; Barce'ona lints, 3dto3id ; walnuts, 3Jd to 3id. On account of the large quantity of produce, &e., no furniture was sold.