COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume XI, Issue 1078, 24 January 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NELSON EETAIL MARKETS.—Thursday, January 23. Bread.—9d. to lid. f- 41b loaf. "Vegetables.—Potatoes : new, 10s. to 12s. *$■ cwfc.; Turnips, 6cl. bunch ; Onions, 4(1. ib.; Lettuces, 2d. eaoh ; Radishes, 3d. '§■ bunch ; Cabbages, 4d. to 6d. each ; Rhubarb, Is. "|p- bundle; Green iPeas, Is. 6d. "$> peck ; French Beana, 2s. *$■ peck. Grain.—Oats, 3s. to 3s. 6d. f bushel; Barley, Bs. f bushel; Maize, 3s. 6d. to4s. 6d. f> bushel. Fruit.—Oranges, 3s. 6d. dozen; Cocoa Nuts, 9d. to Is. each ; Cherries, 4d. <$• ft ; Red Cut rants, Is. f lb ; Black Currants, Is. "|> quart ; Raspberries, Is. 3d. f quart; Apples, 4d. f- ft ; Plums, Is. f ft. Meat.—Beef and Mutton, 5d to 8d f • lb.; Veai and Pork, Bd.; Bacon and Ham, Is. per lb. Dairy Produce.— Butter, Is. 21 f- lb; salt butter, lid. to Is.; Eggs, 2s. dozen. Poultry.—Ducks, 6s>; Fowls, 6s. f> pair Geese 7s. each. Rod and Hounsell quote fine Flour at £22 per ton. • Miscellaneous.—Candles, sperm, Is. 6d. lb ; Melbourne, lid. AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. MELBOURNE.—January 10.—Breadstuff's are steady—loo tons of flour sold at £15 10s. Sales of wheat have been effected at 6?. 6d. to 6s. 9d. Sugars are in great demand, chiefly bre >viug, at £34 to £37. There is a brisk inquiry for t )bacco ; 200 packages of fancy sold at 2s. Cornsacks, 12s. 9d.; Dundees, 13s. There is some inquiry for Martell's brandy, and a few sales hare been effected; holders are firm ; Marzetti's is quoted at 6s. 3d. —January 13.—Breadstuffs are unaltered ; a line of wheat has been sold at 6s. 6d.; brandy is inquired for, and Hennessey's has improved 3d.: candles are in demand; t6as aud tobacco at auction brought s Uisfacfcory rates. SYDNEY.—January 13.—Transactions in the import market to-day havj been almost nominal, some small lines of teas, aug irs, arid liquors, urgently required, were placed at aboublnst week's quotations'; but buyers generally are d 'ferring purchases until after the receipt of mail advices, which will probably come to bund on Wednesdiy. Breadstuffs are flat j holders are not pressing s lies; and transactions are quite of a retail character. ADELAlDE.—January' 10. —The corn market is firm; country flour sold at £16 12s. 6d. ; there are buyers of old wheat at 7s. 3 I.; new wheat is quoted at 6s. 6d.—January 13.—The corn market is quiet. Sales of new wheat have been effected at 6s. 9d.