Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 835, 9 January 1866, Page 2

Commercial.

“ Evening Star” Office, 4.00 pm.

The total amount of revenue collected at the Customs to-day was £ISOO Is Id.

The Argus of the 3rd inst. says: —“In the import market business for the year opens out anything but briskly. Although it is generally anticipated that an increased trade must be done when we are once beyond the influence of holiday-making, no signs of an improvement have as yet been presented. In the market for breadstuffs there has been more animation, well on to 5000 bushels of Chilian wheat having changed hands, in parcels at 9s 7Ad, and at 9s 9d for export. No transactions in Californian wheat have transpired. Adelaide flour goes steadily into the hands of the trade at £24 to £24 10s. Chilian flour brings £2l, and trade sales of Californian are made at £22 to £22 10s. Maize is offering at 5s 4d, but sales are trifling. A shipment of Hennessy’s case brandy has been disposed of at 275. We hear of a parcel of about forty bales of cornsacks having been quitted at 15s 6d. Geneva is inquired for ; some 500 cases JDKZ found a buyer at 11s, the price recently established for this spirit. A parcel of forty quarter-casks of spirits of wine was placed at a full market rate, said to be about 4s Bd. A parcel of crushed loaf sugar, in bond, has been taken up at £44 ; for other descriptions buyers wait the opportunity of purchasing which will be offered at to-morrow’s sales. The Australasian of the 29th ult. says : “lu the import markets to-day the amount of business done has been exceedingly moderate; no alteration in prices, however, is perceptible in any of the chief staples. Breadstuffs continue firm., and stocks are so much reduced that, even in the face of the new harvest, the market is characterised by an upward rather than a downward tendency. Sales of Adelaide flour have been effected at £24 to £24 10s ; of Chilian we hear of sales at £2l. A parcel of South Australian wheat has been placed, to arrive, at 9s 9d. Of Chilian wheat there is none offering, the market having been almost entirely cleared of this description. We have not yet heard of any sales of Californian having been effected ; the consignees of the Othello’s cargo have not yet, as far as we could learn, broken bulk. Maize is steadily advancing, for though a small sale of about 200 bags was made early in the day at 5s 4d, no sellers have since declared themselves under 5s 6d. Now that the season’s demand is over, currants are the turn easier, 6d having been accepted for a parcel of ten tons. For bottled stouts there is considerable inquiry. Some 500 cases of Machen’s have been quitted at equal to 10s 6d to 10s 9d ; 500 cases of Blood’s stout have also changed hands at 10s 3d. Byass’s is much wanted, but neither landed nor yet to arrive can anything like fair parcels be got, even at the extreme figure of 10s now asked. Trade sales of the Carlisle Company’s bulk ale are mentioned at £6 15s. An inquiry for woolpacks has led to the disposal of some 90 bales at 4s.

Our Hobart Town files are to the 27th inst. The Mercury of the 26th says :—“ What with the excitement consequent on the departure of the English mail and the preparation for Christmas, there was only a very limited business doing on the wharves to-clay. The price of flour was raised by some of the millers again to-day, and it must now be quoted at £27 to £26 per ton with only a limited demand. For wheat there was also more inquiry, and 12s. 3d. was freely offered, but no sales were reported at this figure.”