Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2762, 23 December 1871, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at. the Cus-tom-house on (roods cleared for consumption to-day, was £6CG 17s 2d. Grain generally remains at last quotations. The market has become very bare of prime milling wheat, the samples now obtainable scarcely being fit for grinding alone. As, however, the millers as a rule have flour on hand, they are not over-anxious to procure wheat at an advance on ss, and at this rate good sorts cannot be purchased. For oats there has been an improved demand ; milling lots may be quoted at 2s 2d, and feeding, if not discolored, at 2s. Best samples of malting barley are worth 4s ; that of a fair quality from 3s fid to 3s 9d; feeding samples are not saleable. Potatoes are dud, as the small quantity that is still in the market from last season’s crop is not very good. Bran is becoming rather short in the supply, and there is every likelihood of the town millers not being able to satisfy the wants of their customers. Pollard has a good sale at L 3 15s. Good brans in flour meet with a fair trade demand ; but as prices can scarcely be expected to rise, the bakers will not lay in stocks. The ordtrs from other provinces have been satisfactory. Wheat, 5s to 5s 3d. Oats, 2s to’ 2s 2d. Barley-feeding, 2s ; malting, 3s 9d. Flour, LI3. Oatmeal, Ll3 10s. Pearl barley, LlB ICaJßran, L2 10s. Pollard, L2 15s. Straw, L2 10s. Hay, L 4 10s. Chaff, L 4 10s. A. Mercer reports for the week ending Dec. 23 —Detail prices only : Fresh butter, in 4 and lib prints, for first quality, 7d to Od ; second quality, 5d to fid per lb ; fresh butter, in lumps, fid per lb ; powdered and salt butter, 7d to 8d per lb. Butter is still very plentiful, and a great quantity of butter being salted down both in town and country, the stock is very heavy ; and there is no demand for butter in casks, which is very plentiful. Side and rolled bacon, good quality, is in brisk demand ; Ixsst quality, lOd to Is per lb. Colonial bams in good demand, at Js per lb. There is no improvement in the cheese market—stocks heavy, and demand light, and prices arc likely to be very low ; for fine old cheese fid to 8d per lb, and second quality 4d to fid. English hams and English cheese are quite unsaleable. Eggs arc"'very plentiful, and market stocked, at Is to la 2d per dozen.