VEGETABLE PRODUCE MARKET.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 81, 9 December 1864, Page 2

VEGETABLE PRODUCE MARKET.

Wholesale prices as follows : — Cabbages, 2s. to 6s. per doz. ; cauliflowers, 4s. to 6s. per doz. ; turnips,~2s. to 3s. per dozen bunches ; parsley, Is , per dozen bunches ; sage, 3s. per dozen bunches ; j thyme, 2s. to 3s. per dozen bunches ; spring onions, 2s. per dozen bunches ; green peas, 6d. per quart ; radish, Is. per dozen bunches ; new i potatoes, 4d. per lb. ; rhubarb, 6d. per lb. ; lettuce, Is. 6d. to 3s. per dozen ; gooseberries, 6d. per quart ; cucumbers, 3s. per brace, cut flowers, 6d. per dozen. The supply of vegetables this morning was limited, but in the present stats of affairs quite equal to the demand. Mow that the Government has granted a site for a market, we hope to see the public as well as the dealers, give producers the support they deserve. "Business still continues rather dull, buyers limiting themselves to actual requirements. Advices from Mauritius via Melbourne are favorable to holders of sugar. The intelligence from Melbourne is not of a nature to alter the value of flour — our quotations remaing as last stated. Messrs. A. G-. Eisner and Co. held a sale of timber, submitting to rather lower prices for some lots of Baltic flooring-, tv-liiela they placed ; the descriptions sold were the thicknesses for wMcll the least demand exists. I-inch and ls-ineh Baltic flooring still maiutains its value. Our markets are better supplied with teas. Superior sorts still maintain good prices. Quotations for leading goods remain without alteration." — Otago Daily Times, Ist Dec. * By the arrival of the Albion, we are placed in possession of Auckland files. We quote the following from the Southern Cross of Nov. 23. — ""Messrs. Jones and Co., sold 100 building allotments on Ponsonby road yesterday. Very high prices were obtained for the main frontages, and over £2 per foot was paid for back allotments. Mr. J..S. Macfarlane and Co., offered, on sale by action to-day, by order of the Colonial Grovernmerit, the hulk ' Marion/ as she lies in the stream together with about 60 tons coal. A good number of persons were present, and the hulk was knocked down, at £345, to Messrs Henderson and : Macfai'lane. Mr. S. Cochrane sold 5 to-day, the deck-house and passenger fittings of the 'Eagle Speed,'— •about '4,ooo feet lumber; the -whole fetching £10109. A clearing-out sale of boots was held to-day, by Messrs. Ridings and Dowden ; but the prices obtained were not satisfactory. Messrs. C. Stiehbury and Son held a clearingout sale, to-day, of jewellery, from the premises of Mr. Doran, jeweller, Queen-streets The sale ; was well attended, but the prices obtained were lOW. - ;:. -..-•, -.■■- •• , : : ; ■'■ ' .'j ■;';■; Mr. George Sibbin- disposed of a quantity of timber (second quality),- to-day, at an average ■ price of ;14s; 6d. per ,100 feefe" v;r; r .

■ - -. — v - -;■■ ■- The 8. M. Herald, of the 21sfc.ult., r gives the following monthly commercial review 1 :— • Since our last "'summary,' dated 26th October, , the money market has T continued ..tight, and a3 the banks are still givrag 6 per cent.' interest for de- : ; posits at twelve months, there -is. .not, 'much desire on the part of cautious persons to invest in securities which are of a fluctuating character. The news by the English mail of the high rate of discount charged by the Bank of England, has not had any effect hero and although it is often proposed to raise the rates of discount, the banks not being unanimous, .the. same rates of 1, 8, and 9 per cent are adhered to. The ji'ates "of exchange on London for bills at sixty days' sight continue unaltered— the buying : rate being one per cent, discount, and the selling rate' par. There have been no failures of any importance this month, but we stijl have a number of small insolvencies.- :'-.;V-..:-;'';-<-'r''" 1" : . ■ \ ' ' , A fair amount of business has been transacted during the past month m our markets. The wool season has now commenced, .consequently orders!: from the country have come more freely to hand. - There is, however, very little improvement in the" "prices of the principal articles "of daily consumption ; but as shipments from the United Kingdom, show a falling off; holders are anticipating an advance. Some; speculative purchases of beers, teas, sugars, and rice, have lately taken place;; bnt generally speaking, .' the transactions have been confined to actual requirements. Th 9 continued falling off in the yield of bur goldfields is unsatisfactory, and has caused a considerable diminution

in the business -which üßed to bo tiarried oil with the gold producing districts. On the other hand, however, there iB a good demand for goods for the neighboring eolonieß of New Zealand and Queensland, which relieves us of our surplus stocks. The following is the report of the flour market :— "The flour market is very much depressed in consequence of the numorous arrivals here and at Melbourne from Chili; Adelaide flour : Stocks aro small, and prices have not declined more than 20s. per ton ; but Ohili flour has fallen fully £3 to£4p6f t6ii an the prices realised last month. The present quotations aVa.--~ Adelaide, first brandy £23 to £23 10s. per ton s Ohili, £18 to £19 per ton. The miller's quotations are unaltered. Fine .flour, £23 per ton ; seconds, £21 per ton. Wheat is also lower, and has given way about Is. per bushel. Adelaide is quotsd at 9s. 6d., to 9s. 9d. j Chilian, Bs. to 89. 6d. The following are the names of the ships which have arrived from Valparaiso during the' month, with breadstuff's: — Collmar, 272 tons ; Eichie, 4000 bags of flour, and 172O ; bushels wheat ; Charlotte Andrews, 10,000 bags of flour. From California we have had the Adelaide, with 140 tons torn of flour and 600 bags of wheat. The same journal of the 22nd says :— The cargo of flour, ex Charlotte Andrews, was offered at auction to-day, by Messrs. L. E. Threlkeld and Co., but, the bids being below the reserve price, the whole of the cargo was withdrawn for the present. The arrivals to-day have been the Marion, from San Francisco, with 3282 bags of wheat, and 100 flasks of quicksilver ; and the G-ravina, from Valparaiso, with 14,800 bag^s of flour, and 42l bags of walnuts.^

The following is the latest commercial telegram received at California from New York, and dated 27 th September : — At ., the auctions of dry goods to-day, there was a marked fall in prices, amounting to 33 to 40 per cent, less than regular market prices three weeks ago. Q-old opened steadier this morning, and the pviee has been sustained by heavy purchases to cover shorts. There were rather, lively times among importers, auctioneers, and buyers generally, owing to the feverish State of political and financial affairs. Many kinds of goods fell some 10, 20, and 25 percent, — for instance, Paul de Ohevech [?] woollen fillings, which two weeks ago brought 85 cents, were knocked down to-day at 59 cents, some i lots, being consequently withdrawn. Inferior qualities of some articles, heretofore commanding from 60 to 80 cents, went down to 42 to 44 cents. A few lots 40 inch bagging and burlaps sold from 15 to 20 per cent, below average prices. ' Domestic goods are firm in comparison to foreign articles. The panic in gold unsettled everything, and in a few cases the fall was 33 to 40 per cent, from ths regular price three weeks ago. .. The reduction in the rate of domestic goods was not so great. New York, 27th September.— Q-old, 194.