COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 1132, 29 March 1869, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Times Office, > Saturday Evening. The foUowing are the Customs returns for — '■'.••■ Satiirdayj March 27. Sugar, 20361bs ... ... £8 9 8

Mr H. Osbobnb, Auctioneer, reports the sale of section XX, Block VI. (Captain Burk's residence) for the sum of £180.

Dttnedin. — The " Otago Daily Times ' of the 25th inst., says, : — Business to-day has been slack, the state of the weather sufficiently accounting for the quietness. There has been a little moving in the auction marts, and Messrs' M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co.'s sale of grain, as the commencement of intended weekly sales of agricutural produce, attracted a little attention, the prices realised (reported elsewhere) about sustaining recent quotations. In the general market, but few transaction have occurred, and in these nothing of interest has come under notice. In breadstuffs, no demand-is apparent beyond that for local requirements, flour and good parcels of wheat, oats, and barley commanding unaltered values. We can note no business, beyond trade parcels, in any of the staples, and no variations in market prices have been observable. Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co. report that their first sale of the season for provincial produce was numerously attended yesterday by both producers and buyers, and that after a spirited competition every line offered was sold at prices which were considered satisfactory: About 6500 bushels oats (all choice samples) were disposed of at prices ranging from 2s 6d to 2s 9id per bushel,, bags, Is 2d, as foUowB :— I2OO bushels Hampden oats, new, at 2b 7 ad; 2000 bushels . West ; Taieri oats, new, at 2s 7ad; 600, bushels East Taieri, oats, new, at 2s 6d ; 300 bushels East Taieri oats, old, at 2s. 8d j 480-bushele -North Taieri oats, new,' at 2s 8d , 1000 bushels oats, &am%ru, new, at 2s B£d ; 400 bushels Ofepopo'oats, new, Jitjis Bdj 600 bushels East Taieri, old^ at 2s 9_d.. . For 500 bushels Oamaru ' new wheat, 1 4fc : 3_d was offered and refused, the -grower preferring to hold for a slight advance on that iigureA Canterbury cheese brought ;6fd per lb ; .provincial roUed bacon sold at 6^d, sample doubtful }. Dunedin made fancy biscuits, in , tins, brought s|d to 6d perlb. „ , '„;.