COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 547, 1 February 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUCTIONEER'S' REPORTS. Welliwtox, January 31. Mr Thomas reports prodnce prices as follows :—Flour, Colonial, Ll4 to LI4 10s ; Adelaide, LIS; oats, 4s 2d to 4s 3d ; bran, scarce, and in good demand, at Is Id ; wheat, no demand, 4s: hams, 9d ; bacon, Sd; cheese, full supply, 7J/1 per lb ; potatoes, new, IS pir ton ; pollard, market glutted, L6;'maize, 5s batter, 7d. DUNEDIN. Maclean Brothers report:—We held our fourth wool sale this (Thursday) afternoon, at our warehouses. Princes-street soutlu The catalogue submitted comprised 3io bales, all of which, with the exception of 10 balea were sold under the hammer, at prices noticeably in advance of last week's rates for ordinary qualities, and from id to lit higher for choice parcels of merinos. Greasy cross-breds sold at ur> to Ilgd, and merino np to I3jd, the latter figure haying been obtained for a lot of 10 bales, J. W grown by John Watt, Esq., Kaihuka. W ashed croiw-bred sotd at up to 1«£ I, do menno at Iftl fr>2td, at which latter price the highest obtained this spason) we sold 10 bales on account of Peter Ayson, Eiq., Warepa. ENGLISH COMMERCIAL. (From the Melbourne Argus.) Losdojj, January 18. Consols, 95 f. Market rate of discount. 3-J per cent. Wheat, quiet bat steady. Wool, do. Tin—Straits. LS4 ; Australian, L«4. rv. per Bnrrn, L 7* ; Wallaroo, L 75 10s Wheat—Adelaide, 60s to 71s; do New Zealand, nnqnoted. Australian tallow, steady. Loans— 4h per cent. New Zealand, 103 ; 6 per cent." Tasmanian, 116; 4 per cent. Queensr.and. 95 ; 4 per cent. South Australian. 9a* ; 4 per cent. New South \V ales, 100; 4 per cent. Victorian. 96L