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West Coast Times, Issue 2480, 12 March 1877, Page 2

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Auckland. Mr Binney reports: Adelaide flour, £18; j Sisx brWi: '£18; stiperfme, £17; oatmeal, s,s,\.B^lb??leyj.*24;.maizg,4s}5 ,s,\.B^ lb ?? le yj.*24;.maizg,4s} oats 1 ,- 3s; bacon and hams, lOd; cheeses 6d to 7d. . Sharemarket: Bank of New Zealand, £19 15b' 5 National Bank; <6&< Colonial Bdnk, 40s, pai&tip: 37s1| South British; 82s 1 ; National InauranceVabß;. I/oati arid Mercantile, new; Mr Buckland reports: Fat cattlej 26s per tQ ; olbs;,sheepj 2Jd to 3; fatlamhs; 9s to 14s. Canterbury. -uibsUgrsrinv market is very unsettled. Millers, through competition, have run the price ot fsound wheat up to 5s 9d; cbnsethe market to themselves, as merchants and, exporters can't look at these rates. It is^ however, expected that in the course of a weeicor so prices will recede, which they must if exporters withdraw from tUe-mail£et'till rriiil'ers are full. Oats are on the whole badly discoloured, and 2s 2d is the farihetß? silling price; barley; 3s to 3s 6dj flour, £17 (in sacks for old). All the grain crops are now in stock,, and threshing is in full swing. As delrveties increase, prices will settle down to their legitimate value. ; "Uii ■ -■*■ - ■ Stdnet. Brandy": Case has receded §d; quarters, 9s 3d;£s.9s 6d;/kerosenej3itb 3s 3d; rice un* changed;. Adelaide flour, £15 ,to> £17 6d; Adelaide" wheat, 7s- New Zeaiarid wheat, none iv the market; New Zealand oats very flrmv holders expecting 3s 6d • Barrett's twist; Is 5d to (i l8 ; 6d; Black. Swan; is 6S; sugars and candles unchanged.