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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3861, 19 July 1873, Page 2

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«~ Independent Offioe, Friday evening. Messrs Plimmer, Beeves and Oo report : — Ac the result of the large imports of almost every kind of grain and colonial produce chronicled in our two laßt reports, trade is now extremely dull, and no parcels of any magnitude can be placed at paying prices. Flour still continues to come in from Canterbury and Otago j prices in consequence are weater, although we mark no tangible reduction from last quotations. A parcel of twenty tons Adelaide flour, the first this season, has lately come in, and we learn that the major portion has been quitted (for transhipment to another province) at about £18 per .ton, bakers here being evidently well satisfied with best brands of New Zealand flour alone, at a much lower figure. Horse feed in extremely depressed. For oats there ie little or no enquiry, even at Canterbury rates, the market being for the time throughly paralysed by further importations of maize, both arrived and expected shortly. Sales of maize have been effected under 5s per bushel, and we see no immediate prospect of recovery, although prices have lately advanced from 3d to 6d per bushel in New South Wales. Potatoes — as we augured some time since, on account of the heavy surplus crops in the Southern provinces — have rfeoeded from our last quotation, and sales have been made tinder £4 per ton. Dairy produce continues firm ; supplies of both butter and cheese, especially of the former, being very light. We quote flour (in sacks), per ton of 2000 lbs— Adelaide, £18; first quality New Zealand, £13 10s to £13 15s ; less favorite brands, £12 lOd to £13 ; in 1501 b and 501 b bags, 10s to 15s per ton extra. Wheat — milling, per bushel of 601bs, 5e 6d to 6s ; seed, 6s 9d ; for fowls, 4s 3d to 4s 6d. Bran, per bushel of 201bs, Is Id to la 3d. Sharps and pollard, per ton of 20001bs, £6 to £7. Oats, per bushel of 401bs— feed, 4s lid to 5s 3d ; crushed, 5s 9d ; seed, 5s 9.4. Maize, per bushel of 661bs, 4s lOd to as 3d ; crushed, 5s 9d. Beans and peas, per bushel of-60H>8, 6s ; crushed, 6s 6d. Potatoes, per ton of 22401b5, £3 17s 6d to £4 5s j early seed, per cwt, 8s; onions, per cwt, 9s 4d. Cheese, per ib, 9§d to lOd. Butter, eal%jn kegs, per Ib, lid to ll£d. Hams and bacon, local cure, 3d to 9d ; Canterbury, in clotb, lOd to Is.