COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10376, 3 June 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office. Saturday ftvauiog. The amount of customs revenue received to-day Dh eootis nlearod for consuiujxtion was i-'SIO 8s Id. Business in the import market has tuien fairly' brisk during the past week, principally, however, for June account. Stocks of several lines of scasiouable goods are running low, and of these the market will be very bare before supplies can be replenished by arrivals fr,om Home. Dried fruits ara very lirin, with a hardening tendency. Currants freely secure B}d per lb; elemes and sultanas, 5d to s]rd por lb. Sales of ligs are passing at 6j to 6*3 C<l per dozen lib boxes, and, from 6d to 7d per lb in laysrs. Fish are in fair inquiry. Sardroes are at the moment in light supply, aTnd are freely quitted at Gs per dozen for", halves, and at 43 per dozen for quarters. American salmon sells .i*. 7s 3d to 7s 6d per doireri for ordinary liratclaas brands. Ling fish is t^ken up at up to 4Jd par lb. B.est. brands of imported candles are low in stock, and are firm at 7id per tb. The bulk of the trade, howevor, is done, in the local manufacture at schedule rates. Thoro is nctliing new to report in hops. Stocks are pretty large in Nelson, and, in the absence of demand from Australia, the market there is dull. The current quotation, is Sd per lb f.o.b. Nelson, although we have heard of a shade less being accepted. Rice is rather quiet; values are steady at £18' 10a to £19 ;ner ton for both Patna and dressed Japan, btocks of sugar are not large of any description. China finest whites ara in the market, and trade lots have been sold at up to £22 5.? per tou. Mauritius and Queensland bestwhitas are selling at £21 15s to X22 per ton. Colonial Sugar Company's No. 1 reticbes retailors' hands at equal to £2210 d per tou. There is a fair business passing in teas. Blended sorts are meet pushed, and thore is keen competition amongßt the various blenders, each claiming somo special exceUeuce-for lus own brands. In tho l<asgina market business 13 dull, cornsacks meatlng with very little inquiry. The nominal quotation, is"4s. .3d.> per clozen, but 'Jess would be accepted for any ciuantity. In iron and hardware lines trade lias been very quiet during the week. Heavy lines are unchanged. There has, however, been competition between holders of barbed wire, and a fair quantity haa changed hands at £33 and £13 5s per ton. Cement is hardening, and is quitted at 12s b'd to 13s par barrel. I.C. Col'se tin plates have been placed at 13s and 13s b'd per hox. ivsrnsece has eased off pomowhat, and is niW freely purchased at Is 5d to Is oid per gallon,, according to quantity. Raw sad boiled linseed1 I oils are steady at 3* 2d and 3s 3d per galbn respectively. Turpentine is in fair request and secures 2s lOd to 3s per gJlon, according to quantity. Advances in Calcutta have hardened castor oil, and holders are now firm at 2$ O'id per gallon. Messrs Moritzson and llopkin report an improvement in the oat market, and now quote prims ! milling from Is 6d to Is 7d, und bright plump feed" at from Is 5(1 to Is 6d (sacks extra, net caali). Ihev rewirt having made =ales of 19,000 backs at the Bluff at from Is 4id to Is njd (sacks in, f.0.b.); about, 1000 sacks wheat from Oamaru at gcod pnees; and 1000 sacks cocksfoot, at Lyttelton, farmers' dressed at 3|d to <M md machined at 4Jd' (t-0.b.). Ihey report that half of the oat crop in Otago and bputhland is yet in farmers1 hands— either iq their barns, warehoused, orunthreshed — and as there are indications of "farther imprbvementa, the bulk of the southern'fsirmers will reap the benefit from the rise. Stocks in Dunedm stores are unusually small for this' time of the year owing no doubt to low prices and fanners net being able to pay storeage charges. AEGENTINA AS A WHEAT PRODUCER. The wheat and flour exports of the Argentina-' .Republic have grown in the following fabulous manner since 1839 :— Year. Wheat. Flour. „„„„ Tons. Tons. 18S9 „ 22.50S 3,361 - 1830- ... ... 327,801 12.018 1891 395,555 7,015 - , 3WJ2 ... „; 4/0,110 18.549. 1^9.5 ... ._ 1,003,137 37,921 1594 1,«59,249 40,758 DUNEDIN STOCK EXCHANGE. , Saturday's Quotations. Members: , BUODRTCK & ChALMES Si/iMILTON & M'KERKOV.' J. A. Chapman John Logan A. G. .TTeswioS Quick" & Smith" J, &W. Gage . Wilfrid Vivian J. K. Scott. From. 'To Banks: ' £s. d. £8. 6. Coioaialof KawZealjaS 0 190 019 6 National .„ 110 116 Insurance: National ._ 018 3 038 6 Next Zealand AccidsHt... 0 13 0 0 14 0 Now Zsalsnd 3' 9 0 3*lo 0 South'Britiuh 2 6 6 2 7 6 Standard „ 017 0 Ul7 6 Shipping : New Zealand Shrppins; ... 3 0 0 3 5 0 Union Steam (exxliv.) ... 6 3 0 6 9 0 CoAt: KsStPHgata Cold) 13 10 0 14 0 0 do' (nerwj...: ..: 110 12 0 ■Westsort ... ' 2 10 22 0' JIISCELUUTEOTIS : Milbvjm Cement ._ ... 015 0 016 0 2£cspe'{~Wcolleri' / ... 217 G 218 6 jtforaiagton Tsam-way ... 012 3 012 9 New Zealand Drog1 .:. OIS 9 019 3 Otsso Drily Times ... 9 2 0 9 5 0 Koslyri Tramway ... 116 6 1 17' 6 Trustees and Ezecutors... 14 0 I'A 6 Perpetual Trustees ... 0 W 0 011 0 Mining. Companies :' BiffEive'r axteisclciJ' .„ 0 18' 9 0 19-6 Cumberland .016 019 Globe ... .;. ..;- 0 3 6 U 1 0 Hercules "... 02 6 0 3 0 Keep-it-Dark ■ G-14 6' 015- 6' iyeU Creek ■ .... 0 3 6 0 4 0 Progress :- ... 012 0 012 6 United AlDine<Lyell) ... 0' 6 3 0 7 3 Welcome United 0 13 0 16 Wealth of Nations ... 0 4 6 0 4 9 Dredging Companies : Bigßssch „. ... M 0.2 6 03 0 Bauedis 014 0 015 0 Roxburgh (paid up) • ... 014 0' 014 0 Kosßurgh (contributing)' 013 0 0 13. IS Golden Treasure 13 0 14 0 Golden Bun ..110 180 Sluicing Companies: , Roxburgh Amalgamated (paid up) „ 07 9 08 3 Roxburgh Amalgamated ', (contributing) „. ~,0 7 0 0 7 6 Owing to limit of business' many ofcthe above1 Quotations are nominal. »" ■.— DUNEDIN HOUSE' SAIiETTAEDS. . ' Weekly Report. Messrs Wsight, Sibphekson, and Co. report asfollows: — \ , A fairly large entry of hbrses'-was received for bur sale on Saturday, but, as might have been expected in view of our annual salei to beheld next week, the demand waß very slack and the most of the horses were passed in. . We offered, on account of Mr Bowra, of Sydney, 12 active springcart or express horses, but as there were apparently no buyers {or them present they were passed in , and will be offered ..next week. Privately we have inquiries for draughts, and We hove every .hope that at our annual sals next week, at which some of the best horses in Oiagb will be offered, we shall see a niarked improvement in prices. We quote :— Heavy draught horses (4yrs to Cyrs), £14 to £20; light and small do, £8 to £12; aged and inferior do, £4 to £6; unbroken colts and fillies (vivrs to 3yra), £9 to £15^ upstanding active spririg van hordes (unbroken), £13 10s to £17; useful light spring cart hc-Tses £9 to £12; upstanding hacks and harness horses (youEg) r £7 to £10; aged and-inferioi? dd, ,£2to £5. ,