DUNEDIN TRADE REPORT.

Otago Witness, Issue 664, 20 August 1864, Page 12

DUNEDIN TRADE REPORT.

Otago Witness Office, August) 19th, 1864. Business continues rather quiet, with a disposition on the part ot importers to continue pressing their stocks at auction. The result of this has been the establishment of a lower rate for almost every article. Buyers have availed themselves freely of these opportunities to stock themselves at low prices, lest there may soon be a reaction. It is still impossible to give a wholesale price for flour, the Aldinga, on Wednesday, having brought I advices of a decline in Melbourne'and Adelaide to £20 to £21. The consignees of the two Chilian cargoes in port have been holding for £23, but they are not now likely to realise £20. Flour for Australia is now on the water, not only from California and Chili, but from England. There is now every prospect of a permanent reduction in the price of bread. The following quotations may be considered rather high, inasmuch as the prices of many articles have been materially altered by the auction sales, which have been frequent of late. Medium tea, in bond, per chest, £6 to £7 ; do. do., half-chest, £2 15s to £3 ss; good do., per chest, £7 to £610s: do., do., half-chest £3 10s to £4. ' Sugar, in bond : Mauritius, Ist white, £42 • 2nd do., £39; do., light counter, £35 j second do., £33. Company's Ist white, £44: 2nd do., £42; Ist counter, £40 ; 2nd do., £36. Spirits, in bond : Brandy, MartelPs or Hennes9y's, 10s 6d to 11s per gallon ; Kartell's, case, 275 ; Hennessy's, do., 325. Rum, 8.P., 10-12 o.p ,3s6dto 33 9d per gallon ; 80 0.p., 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Geneva, J.D.K.Z., or key, per case, 13s Whisky, per gallon, 4s to 4s 6d ; do., case, 8s 6d to 9s per dozeu. Old Tom, white, in bulk, 8s 6d to 4s per gallon; do., case, 14s to 15s 6d per dozen. Ale: Bass's, Allsopp's, and Dawson's, No. 3, new brew, £7 10s to £8 per hhd. ; Bass's, bottled, quarto, 10s 6d to 11s per dozen: Marzetti's, do., do., 10s to 10s 6d. Porter: Byass', bottled, 11s 3d. to 11s 6d: Blood's, 12s 9d to 13s; Mackin's, 12s 3d : London and Colonial Co.'s, 10s 6d. Butter : Cork, lOd to lid par lb ; Colonial. 13d tol4Jd. Cheese: English, Is to Is o£d; Colonial, no sale. Candles : Full weights, lid to Is. Soap : Liverpool, no demand; Sydney, £34 10s to £36 per ton. * Tobacco, in bond : Best, 3s to 3s 3d: 'aromatic, 4sto4s9d. .