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COMMERCE Although during the past fortnight gold has not oscillated so much as before, the movement in imported articles has not increased to any appreciable extent. Impor not lowered their prices in proportion to the fall in gold as they do not wish to operate until a continued steadiness in the gold quo tations enables them to calculate prices afresh. While the heavy decrease in the gold premium represents a considerable gain to those who have to make remittances abroad, the importers, on the other hand, are afraid of making losses, should they not be able to sell to the retail dealers at the high prices at which they had bought. The public at the present moment refuses to pay prices calculated on a gold premium 70 or 80 points higher than present quetations and limits its purchases to what is absolutely necessary, so that seldom have so many com in the past few weeks. Here and there a few dealers have reduced their prices; business will naturally go to these, and those who are unwilling to follow their example will have their stock thrown on their hands and will be compelled later on to sell at a ruinous sacrifice: for this reason they will have great difficulty in paying their debis to the wholesale houses and it re to be seen how many will be able to fulfil their obligations in this respect. The simultaneous arrival of several ships caused the figures for imports to be larger than in the previous weeks, without, however, reaching the amounts for the preceding quarter. On the other hand the increase in the import of agricultural machines and articles for use during the coming harvest, was most marked. view of the situation of the market, we're Train from giving quotations even approxiconducted, as were nearly all the few ones of No details are to hand of the 8000 barrels (more or less) and 1500 bags of refined sugars recently arrived, and it is more than proba ble that they have merely gone to increase the somewhat impoverished stocks of the importers. If the gloomy reports from the sugar plantations are confirmed, foreshadowing a small crop on account of the drought, and unless copious rains come to the assistance sugar planters, we are likely to see a considerable increase in the import of foreign sugar, especially as the Rosario Refinery To prevent too sudden a rise in the price of an article which is used here in comparati vely large quantities, some senators propose to ask Congress to make a temporary reducfined kinds which were quoted a 8 8.00 to $ 4.90 p 10 kilos, but it is almost certain that as in the case of imported sugars, prices will experience a fall. The reports from the wine-producing dis tricts have likewise been discouraging. In the province of Mendoza, which produces the greatest quantity of wine, the locusts h caused great damage to the vines-the loss being estimated at one third of the whole yield. It is to be hoped, however, that these SUCURSAL, DIRECTORI LOCAL: $ 136.193.518 R. INGLIS RUNCIMAN(" > 25.292,98 Dr. PABLO BEECK, Etor Médico A. ROSSA CAVASSA, Secretario. > 39.054,944 BANQUEROS; . 8.4.894.557