Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2067, 20 December 1869, Page 2

Commercial.

Evening Star Office, Monday evening. The total amount of revenue collected at the Customs to-day, was £lOls 7s Gd. Gold, £4lB l4s 3d. The Argus of the 10th inst., reports Rather an inactive day has been passed in the import markets. In breadstuffs business is limited and insignificant, and being confined to supplying mere trade wants, sales are trifling and unimliortant. For best brands of Victorian and Adeaide flour Ll2los to Ll3 is realised. A sample of new Victorian wheat has been shown in the market; the quality is by no means prime, nor is the parcel a large one, but the fact is significant of an early harvest, and holders have in consequence evinced much more anxiety to quit stock. Sales of best Adelaide wheat are reported at 5s 41d, 5s 4d, and 5s 3d, and a parcel of New Zealand wheat was cleared out on terms withheld. Maize continues to find buyers at 3s 9d to 3s lOd for trade parcels, while a line of 3,000 bags is said to be have been amongst the sales effected. Oats meet with a ready trade demand at 3s 9d to 3s lid. Kerosene oil is very steady. Transactions of outside brands reported as pending yesterday have been closed, say 2,000 cases Cozzen’s and 1,000 cases photolite, which have changed hands at 2s Ind. We observe that 3,000 cases will be offered by auction to-morrow. Sales of dried apples are reported at 7d for superior qualities. The continuous arrivals of teas for the moment keep back buyers, who show less eagerness to operate privately in the face of two cargoes having dropped in this week again. The market, however, will be sufficiently tested to-morrow forenoon, by the offer of some 2,000 packages of congous, chests and half-chests. All the fancy teas by the Marquis of Argyle and Blairmore will likewise be offered for sale, and the fancy teas to hand some time ago by the mail steamer Geelong will be resold at the same time. The sale of tobaccoes advertised for to-morrow is, we understand, postponed until Wednesday next, as the shipment has not yet been landed. Sugars are very steady, notwithstanding that supplies are coming forward more freely. The Nimrod’s cargo of Mauritius, consisting of 9,500 bags, will be offered by public sale on Monday. In liquids, sales of Hennessy’s pale bulk brandy are mentioned at 7s 6d. Amongst the arrivals we notice that of the Charlie Palmer, from Batavia, in addition to the Constance from Foochow, already referred to.