Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 848, 24 January 1866, Page 2

Commercial.

“ Evening Star” Office, 4.30 pm. The total amount of revenue collected at the Customs to-day was £691 12s 2d. The following is Messrs M'Landress and Hepburn’s report at Hokitika, J an. 8, 1866. During the past month trade has been very dull, consequent doubtless, on it being close to the end of the year 1866, and the usual holiday-time intervening. Our auction sales have been of limited extent, it being impossible to force goods on this market except at an immense sacrifice. The few imperative sales we have been obliged to hold, we give quotations of as follows : December I.—Quicksilver, 5s to 5s 3d ; Melbourne sausages, Is 2d ; eggs, 2s to 3s per doz. December 2—Cased sherry, 40s d.p. ; '•galvanised iron, 42s per cwt; oats, 8s 9d per bush ; kerosine oil, 4s Old per gall; London and Colonial Company’s pale ale, 15s per doz ; Stewart’s whiskey, 11s do ; 12 trunks boots at invoice price. December 6 —Drapery at invoice to 25 per cent, under. December 7. —Casked pork, 7d per lb ; new potatoes, 20s per cwt; Davis’s painkiller, 13s 6d ; candles, full weights, Is Id per lb ; colonial bacon, Is 3id to Is 5d ; crushed loaf sugar, 7d| per lb. December 11.—Cargo of Kauri timber, Iss per 100 feet. December 12. Congou tea, 2s 4|d per lb, d.p. ; Wellington butter, 2s per lb ; colonial bacon, Is 4d. December 20—Lane’s Canterbury flour, £26; spiced beef, raw. Is Id per lb; Collins’s short shovels, 50s per dozen ; Byass’s stout, 16s 6d to 17s 6d ; Hennessy’s pale brandy, qrs., 8s 9d; Hennessy’s pale brandy, case, 34s to 365; ' Saucel whiskey, 3s 8d to 4s; Gouda candles, P. W., Is per lb ; dried apples, 9d per lb; Steel’s soap, 37s ; sardines, qrs, 7s 9d ; paper bags, 6id ; still hock, 44s d.p. ; Chilian flour, 25s to 27s per 100 ; potatoes, £l2 ; bran. 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; Prestonpan’s ale, 17s 6d to 18s. December 22—Drapery, invoice to 25 per cent, under, felt hats, 10 per cent. ■ over. January 2, 1866—New potatoes, £l2 to .£l4; onions, 54d per lb ; cabin biscuit, 45s per 100. January 3 —Two cargoes coal, from the ■ Grey Elver, £4 12s 6d per ton ; six-feet Hobart Town palings, 16s; American i lumber, 30s. -.January s—Assorted invoices stationery at , invoice, with freight and (•’charges; Perrier’s champagne, 50s, duty •paid; butter, 2s ; Molyneiix potatoes, £ll 6s ; pork, 7d per lb ; Devon cider, 14s per oozen ; Saucel whiskey, 4s per ■gallon; Beaumont,s flour, £3l per ton.