COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8587, 31 August 1889, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

Dally Times Office, Friday evening. The amsant of oustome revenne received to-day on goods cleArwi for ooniHmptfon was £323817s 9d; primage, £178 8s 7d. Mr Honry lamer held a sale of freehold properties at his rooms, Battray street, yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of bidders. Allotment 7, block XXXIX, St. Hilda, was Bold for £30; part allotments 2 and 19, block XXII, Dunedin, £175; allotment 60, block XXVII, Dunedln, with verandah cottage thereon, £490; and allotment 3, section 89, block VII, Dunedin, and allotments 16, 17, and 18, Kensington (£^so; were passed in.

CHRISTCBURCH CORN EXCHANGE, lit (j.» t for oiek ending Friday, August SO :— Thau U little new to report in the grain trade. Business is exceedingly quiet. Foreign advices for

wheat tend to firmness, but locally there is uo disposition to purchase. The inquiries lust, week for Tuscan have been filled, and It is now difficult to obtain our quotations. The three boats for Sydney at the begiuniug of the week have taken another lnrge shipment of potatoes, the advices of which speculators are now awaiting. The oat market is quite lifeless, no orders being on han-1 and local requirements being fully supplied. Buriiv. liknosta, is very dull, there bein.? so little prime, m»1 D-.i-■-■rs decikie to operate mi spumul qu.Uifcy. lie k.l o ■> :• are our quotations :—Wheat i l'riifto Tu ■ c-.-.n "■ ■<< to 3shd; ut;:irl,&<H; Hunter's, 3s 1.1 to :•. >; I m' n\ wheat, 2a 6d lv L's M. O.Us: i.illhu-. «. J; short feed, 2s 7d to 2s 8-1; i'lfrrior. aid '■'' -a ■''■ l«rl ')': Prime malting, 3s ed to ..'a 10 1; med.nm. sto3s3l; feed, 2s 8d to 2s 9d. Beans. 3a 3d to :'s M. Pease : Prussian blues, 3s Od to 3s 9d; f.-al, (. to 3s Id. Grass seed: Ryetfrass-raacbine-dressed >ls Cit to 4s 9d, formers' lines /is to -Is; cocksfoot-prime 3jd, inferior aid to 2Jd. Potatoes, 67s fid (country sLati ins). Dairy produce: Butter (nomiaal) 7d; cheese, 3jd to 4d. The above prices are thoße paid to farmers for delivery f.0.b., sacks extra.