Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2767, 30 December 1871, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption to-day, was £503 7s sd. For flour there exists a brisk demand, and there is every appearance of stocks becoming limited towards the end of the season. Good brands have a ready sale at Ll3 A rebate of 10s per ton is made on outside lots. Inferior flour has no inquiry, and rates range from LlO to Lll. Bran is scarce, although higher rates have not yet been asked; the value is now L2 15s. Pollard stocks are cleared, and customers are supplied as it is produced at L 3 15s. We hear of no transactions in milling wheats ; value remains as last quoted, at ss—for inferior lots from 4s to 4s 3d can be obtained. Fowl wheat is scarce at 3s. Malting barley is moved at 3s 9d to 4s ; for feeding sorts there is no demand, although offered at from Is 6d to 2s. The demand for oats is scarcely so brisk as it was a week ago ; milling kinds are quoted at 2s to 2s 2d, and feeding at 2s. Pearl barley, LlB 10s; hay, L 4 10s; chaff, L 4 10s; straw, L2 10s. A. Mercer reports for the week ending Dec. 30.—Retail prices only : Fresh butter, in 4 and 11b prints, for first quality, 7cl to 9<l; second quality, 6d to 7d per lb ; fresh butter, in lumps, lid per lb ; powdered and salt butter, 7d to 8d per lb. Butter is still very plentiful, and a great quantity of butter is being salted down every week. No enquiry after salt butter in kegs, and stocks fetting heavy ; several parcels are about to e shipped to try the home market. Cheese is still very plentiful, and very little of the new season cheese in yet, on account of the market being stocked with old cheese—for the best quality, 01 to 8d per lb, second quality 4d to lid. Good Colonial bams and bacon arc scarce at present, and for good hams Is per lb, and side and rolled bacon, lOd to is. The market is completely glutted •with eggs, and retailing at H)d to Is per dozen.