COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 983, 13 June 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CHRISTCHUECH. [air TEWCGKAPtL] June 12. _ The stock market is a Tittle brisker this week. Best quality fat sheep sold as high aw 14* fid each: 1?d i* the quotation. Beef. 2R» to 27# (>d pec tootb» for best quality. The train market has shown no material •Iteration. Values remain about the same, la potatoes, growers- haw shown more willingness to seH, but prices have undergone no sensible change yet. -tn.oat oca own eoiiitaaJONDENt.) June 13. A slight improvement has taken place in the valno of wheat, and. although the English marketa show tittle sign of improvement* prices are now firm here at 7il for good aonmt milling samples, and 3s 4d to 3» sJ[d for ordinary to Fair parcels. Millers tiavo advanced ftonr by LI per ton Airing* the week, whicfe is said to be owing to- tha enhanced price of wheat. Inquiry has been rather better, but buyers decline to give the extra price at present. In oats BO improvement i« noticeable* and, in the fthfloxuutt of transactions* it impossible totfiv» quotations. Ritrtoy continues iltnl % tic> improvement in value is reported. Little is offeßtng by owners, they believing that prices will come fight later. Potatoes continue in active enquiry, although little business has boon done,, owing to the extreme prices Asked by farmers. It is impossible to give a wliflble price, bnt farmers' demand* range from Lr» 10s to Lt tOs,. at country stations. Probably at the former price considerable business might be done. Butter and cheese aw unchanged at !Md .and for bare, and Bsd in cloth.