COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume III, Issue 716, 26 July 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

AUCTIONEERS' REPORTS. Messrs. Oonnell and Clowes report that they held their usual monthly sale of skin 3, hides. Ac., yesterday, at It o'clock. The attendance of local and of Canterbury scourers was crood, and thebidding throughout v.-a 3 jpirtted. 3682 skins were catalogued, about 2000 of which were butchers', the balance fanners' and station skins, and were sold as follows :—Butchers* eros*-breds, 4s 6d to 5s Id ; &o merinos, 3s 4d to 33 KM. Dry skins, cross-breds, up to 4s lOd; merinos, 3s lOd. Hides fetched 3Jd; butchers' fat, 2d to 2gd per lb. ♦ AUCKLAND. fIT TtUCGRAPtt.] July 25. ?,Ir. 4s '„• t ; flour, f 2On to LI2 10s ; bran, none in market. ; shv-rirt., d<»; beans. LB 6s 6d ; oatmeal, L2l ; pearl barley, L 22. WELLINGTON. [by telegraph.] July 25. Mr. Geonre Thomas report? produce price* as f.llow : —Flour—Adelaide, LI 7 10s; Colonial 1.12. market overstocked, no Lnsis.'*">s doing ; "ats, very firm. 4sffd ; bran, pot obtainable, will advance 2d in a ft'w davs ; nolhvd, L? : hams. Ski; a ready sjJo for gi>.'.d Siteon, 8d to 9d: wheat, 4s <;■•, nint-h A-rmfxl; butter, lOd, nominal; ptital.,-)!-- . L 4 '"k, none in the market, two shiwiiuita to jrriv" } M hi_: ?oid at price qaote.T : maivw. r >r Sd S» stocked ; eh':-.-"'. 7d t« 'tockeil. I!>"»',■ :• Uf'.-\T\- MARKET. \Tossr'- li! .■ Br<vs. and C>■ report on Ju ■<: 7< ■■ •■■ ■•; f-rdon Market* for Colo-i-d l'r •'''■ ■■ :.. i !Iw :—The nivt - ?- Suit vd pr'iMH ronrinue to -- •'• e. n»il T or» to operate e.v:ep" at J>w as ths they laid in w> :i v>-\r reemed probable are not yet exhausted. Ov ng t.> the very wet weather which has prevailed, our growing crops do n-<t look so promising as they did, but in many especially m stiff soils, th>- color is "T-fdy, and a falling off of the yield h 7-or.ftble. On the other hand foreign riMipHe* are liberal, and shipper* at the A'mnrie ports being anxious to m«jet the market, the price of wheat in America has f.-.llt-n about 7" V r 1 r - during the past month, and shipments of the new Californian crot> »re offered at 4fi* 6d c.fi. to thf» United Kincd-m. The flans Gudt> at Port Pirie with fi2'"qr. was disposed of at 52* fid c.i.f, for Hull, a very poor pricK New Calcntta wheat ha 3 fallen considerab'v. New C!nb being only worth 4£v 6d and 435. and soft red 42* Tier 49Slb ci.f., bagK for buyers, damaged for ««lter«. Thf fall in New Zealan.la has not t>«en so considerable, stocks being light. We quote Australian wheat ia store 54s to 55s per 4061b; New Zealand. 40s to 50-. Anatralian llonr, 32a to 38.» per 2801b, and New Zealand 30 to 345.