Dunedin Commerical Report.

Otago Witness, Issue 1374, 30 March 1878, Page 11

Dunedin Commerical Report.

Witness Office, Thursday Morning "We have asrain to report a week of very decided quiet, made all the more apparent by a day's chance of business being cut off by the anniversary observance. To some extent the oullness which is complained of is caused by supplies for harvest having been distributed over the country for some time. When these aro exhausted, orders will, of course, be renewed. In brandy prices are quite maintained, and the regular demand for small lots goes on. Hennessy is quoted— Bulk, 9s Gd per gallon, case 32a ; A.V.C., 7s 3d per gallon, 22s per case ; Dubois. 83 Gd to 8s 9d per gal on, case, gold capsu c, 30s, silver do, 26s ; Bisquit, Debouch, and Co, 83 per gallon. In whisky the ordinary brands in the market move off in regular but very limited quantities. As Dunvilla's has been going into consumption of late at a rather augmented rato, the burning down, at a loss of £80,000, of their distillery will certainly lead to the advance of, at any rato, their particular whisky — if it does not, to some extent, affect the market altogether. In gonova sales to somo extant have been effected during tho week at 13s, but fair quotations for ordiuary small contents is about 12s 9d— say 12s Cd to 12s 9d. Rum is hardly movcible at any price. There is no enquiry. Wine we c\n only reiterate as continuing very dull, this leimrk applying specially of course to ports and ehorrics. In clarets there is always sumo continued movement, especially of Vergniaud's. Ale, both in bulk and case, continues dull. Toa commands fair attention, not so bii^kly tendered us at first, but in the same satisfactory m inner when needed. A slight lull for a time is to be looked for. In BUgar, we announced last week the arrival of the Ullysse. We now note the arrival of tho Nilo, also from Port Louis, with a cargo to the order of Messrs W. and J. Scoular. It consists of 11,266 pockets and 338 bai?s. There are no loss than 42 lines in tho invoice, und the varieties, 111 all the usual descriptions, number as many as 21. There cm bo no doubt of this bern? an cxceodiDgly varied cargo ; and the ijuality of tho sutrars— the clearness, enspness, dryness of the grain and crystul-izing--is vory highly spokon of. In provisions, we remark that butter is selling slowly, but tho Akaroa supply is very small. In ilsh the demand is slightly on the increase, half-barrels white herrings sailing at 295 ; linsjatSid. Fruit is almost out of enquiry. Cornsacks aro soiling froely at 10s. Hops are moving—

Kent, Golding's pales at 2s ; Fast Kent, at Is Bd. In kerosene there ii no change ; but rather than accept the lower quotations for Devoe's of las>t week, some hou=es a>e holding for Is 6d. On Thursday, the 21st, Jle-srs Whitelaw and Co offered, on Jetty s'.reet Whaif ex Cygnet, 10,400 ft sup. red pine, consisting of 3 x 2, 4 x 2, 4 x 3. 5 x 2, 6 x 2. 6 x 3, 8 x 2, in lntstn suit purchasers. The carjio was sold all roundat 10*. Flourisst,illquotedat£l2. Thenewcropof wheitis now airiviiift, but nearly all as jot for tho mills The demand is still weak, and no sa'es of impurtauce have been effected. Sales of northern on the wharf have been rnado at 4s Od, but quotitions are, for medium and good, at from 4s 3d to it Cd, and only very prime has reached 4s 9d. Oats have been scarce, but are in brisk demand— prime feed and milling bring readily from 3s 6d to 3s Gd ; future delivery, 3s 2d to 3s 3d. Barley is in fair request, but no new has corae to hand. Ordiuary old malting has been sold at 4s 3d ; prime may be quoted up to ss. Bi?h rates, we notice, are ruling in North Canterbury, as south of Timaru the quantity grown this season is very small compared with former years.