COMMERCIAL.
Auckland, Saturday. Business m all departments shows increased activity. Storekeepers are at last forced to accept the advance, and are forestalling any further rise. Sugars are moving off freely, and all kinds of European merchandise show a hardening tendency. Tallow is m demand at 26s for mutton and 253 for beef. Flour remains about the same, Adelaide offering at £15, and southern at £13 10s to £14 ; maize, 3s 8d to 3s lOd ; oats, glutted and cannot be sold except at a loss, parcels placed at 2s 4d to 2s 6d ; dairy produce is about the same ; Canterbury potatoes, £9 ; new, local IJd per Ib. ; hams and bacon, 8d ; eggs, Is. Sydney, Friday. Hennessey's brandy, case, 355 ; bulk, quarter-cask, 10s; Devoe's kerosene. Is 10£ d. New Zealand wheat, none m market; New Zealand oats, 2a 6d pei bushel ; maize, 2a 8d per bushel ; Sugar Company's No. 1, pieces, £38, candles, D.R.P., Bid. Adelaide, Friday. Wheat, 5s 9d per bushel ; flour, £12 10s to £13s 5s per ton.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 954, 19 November 1879, Page 2
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168COMMERCIAL. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 954, 19 November 1879, Page 2
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