Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2475, 21 January 1871, Page 2

Commercial.

Evening Star Office, Saturday evening. The mount of revenues received at tie Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption to-day, was £27018s 6d. The produce market generally remains quiet. For Hour the demand has greatly improved towards the end of the present week more especially since the receipt of last Australian advices* As there are no choice parcels of milling wheat offering, and miller's stocks generally being light, a good quantity of slightly damaged lots are being worked off, the flour from which is offering from Lf) 10s to LI 2 per ton. For first-class flour the quotation given below is easily obtainable. Oats—none offering beyond what is required for iocal wants. Barley is anything but brisk, feran and pollard, stocks are low, prices include bags. Flour, Ll3 ; small ba:s, LI3 10s per ton. Bran, L 5 10s. Pollard, L 5 10s. Oatmeal, Ll6 10a to LI 7. Pearl barley, L 22. Wheat, fifst-class, 4s 9d to 5s per bushel; inferior, 2s lOd. Oats, 2s 9d to 3s. Barley, 2s 6d to 3s. Hay, new, L 4 5s to L 5. Straw, L2 10s to L2 15s. New potatoes, L 6. Chaff, L4to L 4 10s. Messrs Driver, Stewart, and Co. report for the week ending 21st January, 1871 : Fat Cattle.—The market has been fully supplied. One draft of 32 head, prime quality, yarded, realised L 6 10s per head, or say about 17s (id per lOOlbs. Fat Sheep.-- But few sales have been made during the week. We quote prime quality at If d to 2d per lb. Store Cattle.—But little inquiry has been made, and no transactions have transpired. Store Shcap.—Half-bred lambs and hoggets, and large-framed wethers, are in demand. Of the latter we have placed 1,500at 4s 3d, which may be taken as the market value of the day. Mr A. Mercer reports retail price of fresh and salt butter for the week, 7d to Del, according to quality. Prime salt butter, in keg, 7«d to 8d per lb. ; demand very dull. .New season's cheese, very plentiful, 7d to 8d per lb. ; old cheese, lOd to Is. Hams and l>aeou (Colonial), Oil to Is. Eggs, Is 3d per .doz, and in good demand.