Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 2987, 14 September 1872, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cue-tum-honse on goods cleared for consumption to-day, was L 257 Ins 5d

A. Mercer reports for tho week ending September M Retail prices only. Fresh butter in 41b and lib prints, best quality, Is 4d to Is 6d per lb ; second quality, Is 4d ; fresh butter in lumps, Is 2d ; powdered and salt butter, best quality, Is 2d ; second, JOd to lid. Fresh blitter continues to get plentiful, but prices still remain unchanged. A good enquiry exists for new season salt butter, which is very scarce and worth from la to Is Id per lb for good samples. Cheese is in good request; good samples are scarce however, and worth 8d to Od per lb ; second quality, 6d per lb. Side and rolled bacon is fetching Od to lOd per lb. Kgcs arc very very plentiful in fact so much so that tho large stocks held by storekeepers arc scarcely affected, although prices range as low as lOd to Is per doz.

With the exception of a few samples of indifferent quality, there is no wheat in the market. Buyers are however, only prepared to secure a 'sufficient quantity for present grinding. The value in town for best milling lots is 5s 3d to 5s 4d ; for inferior parcels there is ho sale. Fowl wheat is inquired f.,r at 3s ; there is none offering. In oats, the market has slightly improved ; prime milling samples fined buyers at 2s and 2s 2d ; feeding sorts arc brisk at Is lld to 2s. Malting barley is held for 6s ; stocks are low and the demand is good ; feeding lots are firm at 4s 6d. Potatoes are dull at 1 7 for Provincial, and L 6 for Australian. Flour continues in brisk trade demand at Ll3 to LI3 IDs ; town stocks are not over heavy, and we may look for a scarcity within two months, unless more wheat comes forward ov flour is imported. Bran, L 4. Pollard, L 5 10s. Oatmeal, LIT 10s. Straw, L2ss. Hay, L3lss. Chaff, L 3 15s.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. held a sale of horses, ex Albion from Melbourne, at the Provincial Yards, to-day. A splendid lot of horses was disposed of. Perhaps no sale of horses in Dunedin ever excited so great an interest or attracted so many farmers as the present. The yard was literally thronged with breeders and speculators. Nine draught horses offered fetched prices ranging from L 26 to LSO. The farfamed stallion “ Heather Jock,” by Blackleg out of Lilly Cromwell, was knocked down after a sharp competition at L4BO Mr Fowler, of the Taien, became the purchaser; and it is satisfactory to know that the horse is bought to bo retained in the Province, and) that he will travel in the forthcoming season in the Taieri district. The competition for “ Young Dan O’Connell ” was not so spirited ; but though he was bought in at L 95, he was afterwards sold for LI GO. The importer, Mr Trestrail, who appears to thoroughly understand the requirements of the Province, must be pleased with the prices realised at the auction.