COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 910, 17 March 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Thu rovmttu? oolleeti'd at the Customhouse. Oftnmi'u, last week amounted to LV.iJ Is Hit. _ AtTCttOJff.lflK'H Rft PO RT. Jtiff. (h>orgo Uri'ontieM rupovts that he | U ,(,I n Hrtlo of of household furniture. &e.. at Mr. Robot# Kemuui't* o» Saturday, Ther* ' w:is a larg» attendance, and the bidding was vuvy spirited. sll the goods fetching full value. Mr. 't. 11. Brown reports hotding a sftte ot grain, furniture, Sc., ad his rooms, Tynestraet, oil Saturday, whett a considerable quantity of furniture was disposed of at satisfactory prices. Thw property and were postponed until- VV nduesday. l;)th inst., at l« o'eluek. fNVRECARntLt,. [;uv ntnuintAi'tt. ( With regard to the graia marltst priess whuat i» no# quotable nxeupt fowl feed, which commands from -S lid; to -s D<t. Oats ,'ule low. exporters not earing to otter more than 'Js lid, aitd even "d less than that has tidoti mentioned. These rates are positively declined by farmers, and until priees inv nrove threshinsf will be detay('d, the grain being better in staelt than out of it. For (oral eousumption Ik'st mining oats are worth from Us !)d to ,".s. ('lvalV rules at LB. and olitmeat Ims declined to O.ltf. We quote potatoes at IX ami tlio quality of those of Mouthland g»owth is unsurpassable. Cheese, 7^i: lmttwr, ts. (i'lour. eontinues at Jit(>at the mills. Braiv is Ohj : pollard, 1.0 t3»: stoeks are large. None ot the now crop-of wliea# lias yet nmie to market. Farmers are beiuu fully oeeupied in seeuring the harvest. 'l*he yield of wheat witl turn out better than was expeetwd. Oats are fulfilling the promise held out all- along, met wdl ywld above the average crop. The yield W hurley is satisfaetory. ami it a 'matter of rewet that agreater hrefelth of landnot laid down in thiseereal, as the high was priee riding for barley would have well repaid cultivators for the extra eat'e required for its growth.