Commercial.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 93, 31 August 1868, Page 2

Commercial.

7'ho Star OAlco, TJiis Day*;., The land miles to-day amounted to 180 ncrort, an follows t — Tlmivvii dl«trlct, 02 j Mandevllle, !if> ; Banlw l'cnlnaula, .10 \ Oxford, .'JO ; Malvci'ii, :i!i. Tlioi'o appoiiro.d to boa Rllght Improvement In tho demand for grain and breadntulV.H on Halurdav. A few iimall parcel!) of wheat changed lmiulft at priccn varying from fa (id to Bs (Id, but they wcro of Inferior quality, and Oh could liave been readily procured for good fiainploH. ()atd for feeding purpoHOH wore a trillomoro In demand, 2n and in Id being obtained for a fow lots Intended for export. JjW Howlng purpoHCii, cnqulrlflH wore Hoareoly ho numeroiiH a» a week ago, but <h is obtainable for good lol«, Seed barley watt In demand at an advance of fid per huflhel on previous quotatloun. There In, however, agreat ncarclty of pnniha.Heablo HiunploH in^tiilH cereal, and but little has changed hands, .For malting barley, there is no alteration. Flour is Hlulionary, and the uamc may be mild of. I) run and Hharp.4. Montim Wlliionund Alport report a iiupply of umiMiially choice dairy cattle, In the Yard*, on Satni'flay j — Spi'luglug helfern, hujhh'loi 1 <|tia!lt.y, brought xo inn, l\o \r>u, xn ion, imd £V>\ \ well-bred cowh, brought £8, £11, P.\;\\ yearling liel for, J.n )n» j hull calf, a few days old, Hhj a ipmnlity of hearing ■fruit trees, forest trees, and evergreens, »old afc fair prlees, They Hold on Wednesday, at the Stores of MesHi'H Dalgety and Co. : — 1 ton '■ I ccl'h noiip, damaged by milt water, at il'ift per ton ( i tonii do, do, at X'2B jier ton ) I cune hool-H brought ttatldfaelory ]>rlceH, On 'I'lmrsday, at Mr Hnlloek's store, Ferry road, a parcel of new furniture and bedding wan Hold at moderate nil cm. The following In the Ninth Annual Heport of Ibe proceedings of the Canterbury ChamIts!! 1 of Commerce, which wiw adopted at the doueral Annual Meeting on Thursday hwt:— « At tlic expiration of another ilnaneial year, and before retiring from olllce, your Committee beg to Hubmlt their Ninth Annual Hcpfrrllo the members of tho Chainber.lJyeomliarlHou, your Committee find that tho export of woo) thlHiicajfon haw been, m nearly an poflslble, tlio name a« lant ycarj whicli, connldcrlng tlio heavy lo,isc,i civuscd, last August, by the hovci'm snowstorms, and thon by tho floods In February, Ih in Itself, very mitlKfaclory. Tlio quantity of grain exported Uilh year liat) been unusually largo i and tho high prices oblalnod In (lie London and Australian markets speaks for tho quality of this portion of our products. No doubt tho export of grain will annually increase, tho high prices obtained having had a vary beneficial oifect on tho trade of tho province, Thoro have been fewer fallurcH -of magnitude during llilh, as compared with tho previous year, but many small tradora havo gono through the Court. Tho caution nhown by morchanlH and others in giving orcdlt has

been bonoflcial in stopping a good deal of. tho overtrading ho long complained of, but still Iho suppUou aro In oxcosa of tho wants of. tho community. A now Bankruptcy Act has boon passed slnco hwt report j It Is defective In many points) hut »omo Important suggoHHonH miwto by tho commlttoo, among others, tho alteration of tho proaont lawaa far as rolatoH to Bills of Salo over station properties, will moat probably form part ol! tho amendmonlrt now under dlHouflslon in tho General AH9cmbly. Tho following matter* havo engaged tho attention of your commlttco during the year; —tho Pilot service, Ciwtom llouho arrangements, Hallway tari lt, Bonded store charges, Steam postal time-table, Law aflloollng alweondlng debtors, tlio present .Bankruptcy Act, and many other mutters which have boon productive of Hovoral changes for tho hotter, moro especially in Iho Mall Hcrvlco to Australia via Hokltlka, and an to tho arrival and departure of. uteiimovu to and from LytteUou, tho time tables being boiler arranged than hitherto. Tho yellow fever In South America has almost put an end to bualncss along tho coast, Tho Alia California nays :— Tho yellow fever Ih making rapid Ht rides In Lima, I r>o to 200 dying daily (nomo nay .100), and upwards of. 2500 In tho hospital. Commerce is completely paralysed, and the merchants wore about to hold a meeting to consider the neccuully of cloving their e^tablUhmonta entirely for the proflciil. All the Nehool.i, public and private, theatres and other places of resort, havo boon cloned by order of the Government on account of tlio contagion, , •