HOKITIKA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XX, Issue 22, 17 June 1865, Page 2

HOKITIKA.

The West Coast Times of the 3rd inst. reports j — Business has been brisker during the past week, and the demand for almost all kinds of merchandise has increased. The imports may be reckoned next to nil, and the lengthy passage of many craft bound for this port has loft the market comparatively bare. Mov.r is very scarce j but as a large supply ia known to bo shipped, storekeepers are very cautions in their purchases, and the riao in prices is very slight. A lot of fifty bags Adelaide was quitted by Morison, Law and Co., on Thursday, at £32 per ton. Timber has risen from 25s to 30s (wholesale) with a good demand and scarce supply. The market is bare of corrugated iron, and a few damaged parcels havo met with a ready sale, at rates higher than prevailod three weeks ago for a firatclass article ; we hear of no considerable quantity on the way. Oats and chaff are plentiful ; tea, sugar, and onions aro light ; Sinclair's bacon, scarce. Wo have abandoned all idea of giving retail prices current, every storekeeper selling at a different rate, and being very unwilling to let prices be known. The following is a close approximation to the wholesale prices ; Flour, £33 to £35 per ton; Tea, £5 to £6 per half ohiifc*

sugar, 523. to 60s. per cwt;- bacon, Sinclair' e (scarce), Is scl ; Coey'd. Is C>d to Is 4<l ; ham:? Is 6d to Is 9d; stocks light; butter, Is (Jrl to Is 9d per 1b ; stocks light ; oats, G* to (Is (kl per bushel ; plentiful; chaff. 25s per cwt : plentiful: bran, 3d O'd per bushel; potato.-;?. £.13 to £14 per ton; onions, scare.; '3d io -id per 1b ; porter and ale, good brctiuU, LS.s per dozen ; brandy, llenuessy's and Martell's, in bulk. 23s k: 2-1-3, duty paid ; in case, fss^ ; whisky, 10^ t.j -toi per case; timber, 25s to 30:3 ; great demand : iron — market bu.ro.