Commercial Intelligence.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5221, 29 January 1885, Page 3

Commercial Intelligence.

[Reuter's Telegrams.] ["Received Jan. 29. at 11 a.m.l LONDON, Jan. 27. Consols remain at 99| ; New Zealand securities at last quotations. Colonial breadstuffs — Adelaide wheat ex store, 37s ; New Zealand do, 29s to 355 ; Adelaide flour, 25s 6d. Australian tallow — beef, average quality, 345 ; mutton, 34s 6d. Wool— To-day's auction was firm, the catalogue comprised 7900 bales. The Australian mails, per Ganges, from Melbourne, Dec. 18, were delivered to-day.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), have received the following cable message from their London branch, under date Jan. 27 : — Wool.— Up to date 44,000 bales

have been sold, of which 22,000 bales have been taken for export. Medium ! and inferior greasy, faulty scoured and j slip§ wools have declined £d to Id per lb ; superior greasy, market unchanged ; clothing and combing, ., washed, market easier ; cross-bred unchanged; lambs, market easier. There is much irregularity in the biddings. \ Wheat. — Market flat. Adelaide is . worth 375, New Zealand, 32s 6d, and Tuscan, 34s per 4961 b. Adelaide f.a.q. is worth c.i.f. off coast, 35s 6(f per 4801 b. Adelaide wheat to arrive, ' iron ship, is worth c.i.f., 36s per 480 lb, January bill of lading.

AUCKLAND, Jan. 29. Governor Sir William Des Voaux and his family proceed to Dunedin in the Arawata to-morrow, and contemplate leaving for England in March, returning to Fiji at the end of the year. Mr W. F. Buckland received a vote of confidence at Otahuhu yesterday. The weather is wet, and the eight hours' demonstration will probably be postponed. The eight hours' demonstration and the Takapuna races are postponed in consequence of the wet weather, but the Eegatta is proceeding. Ernest Serdiefield, aged 18, a warehouseman's clerk, while riding a private horserace at Mangare last night, was thrown and fractured the base of his skull. He died to-day.

WOODVILLE, Jan. 29. A building belonging to Briss, aerated water manufacturer, was burnt thia morning, the fire having originated in the fireplace. Briss lost everything. Insurances . .£l5O on the plant, and £40 on the build- , ing, in the South British. The loss is estimated at over the insurance.