Commercial Intelligence.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2746, 12 July 1883, Page 2

Commercial Intelligence.

Timaru Herald Office, Wednesday Evening. Business dnring the month has remained much about the same as when we laat reported. The weather has been fairly good, and farmers have taken full advantage of it, ploughing operations are now m full swing, and prior to tho last week or ten days a good deal of sowing haa been done. There is little or nothing doing m grain, the decline m Home price 3 during the month having affected the market here. Bather than sell at the prices ruling, many farmers havo decidod to store their grain and wait a more favorable opportunity. Quotations are, of course, nominal, wheat of prime quality being worth 4s ; medium, 3s Cd ; soft and apronted, 2s to 2s Gd. Oats— Milling, Is 7d ; bright feed, la sd. The shipping trado dnring tho month has been quieter than for many months past. The barque Auriga took her departure for the United Kingdom on the '18th of last month, with a cargo of the season's wheat. A considerable quantity of this cereal was shipped to other ports, most of it going South. The ship Bangitikoi, which arrived here on Saturday, will take a cargo of wheat Homo, and the work of loading is expected to take two or three weeks. Several more vessels are on their way here, one of which, the Norman McLeod, from the TJnited Kingdom, is now 86 days out, and may therefore t>e looked for shortly. The principal imports at the port of Timaru for the four weeks ended yesterday were as follows : — General merchandise, 457 tons ; timber, 39,000 feet ; coal, 263 tons ; railway sleepers, 2150. The exports daring the same period were : — Wheat, 41,480 bnshels ; oats, 5068 bushels; flour, 40 tons; tallow, 215 casks ; meat, 388 cases ; wool, 93 bales ; hides, 65. Mr J. G. Allen, Belford Mills, reports as follows -.—Flour, f.0.b., per ton, .£ll ; ditto, ditto, per 1001 b bags, .£ll 103 ; ditto ditto, 501 b, £11 10s ; sharps, £5 ; bran, .£4 10g. Mr B. Bowie reports as follows :— Flour (wholesale) is fetching £10 10s to £11 per ton ; best oatmeal, £14 10s ; sharps, £5 10s, f.0.b. ; bran, £4 10s, f.o.b. ; potatoes, new, SOs per ton. Mr Alpheus Hayes reports m building material — Timber: red and white pine from lls per 100 f t; black pine and totara, from 14s to 18s ; flooring and rusticated, from 14s ; and lining, from 12s Gd. Firewood, long, at 24s to 32a per cord. Firewood, cnt „ 26s „ 36s „ Split posts, from 80s per 100. All kinds of building and fenoing material are m good supply. In building material, Mr John Jackson

quotes as follows :— Timber— Now Zealand white pine, from 11s 6d per lOOtt ; totara and | black pine, 18s to 20s per 100 f t; do, Van piemen's Land, 2lb per 100 ft cash ; V.D.L. pahnga (sft), 23a ; do (6ft) 25a, cash ; V.D.L. shinglos, "03 per 1000; spokes, -12s per 1C0; felloes, frotd Is 3d each; tongned and grooved kauri lining, from 17s Gd; rusticated boards, kauri, 235 ; Gogpel Oak galvanised iron, JE27 10a per ton. All kinds of building material and blue gum timber aro m good supply. Coals (Nowcastlo) avo 36a to 40s per ton m the yard. Firowood is at from 35s to 40s per cord. Firewood (out), 40ab.p.