Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3047, 23 November 1872, Page 2

Commercial.

Th« amount of revenue received at the Cus tom-house «n goods cleared for consumption to-day, was L4C7 10s sd. In grain ami breadstuff's there is no change to report. Wheat of any quality is to be had only in small lots ; prime milling samples readily find buyers at 5s (id to 5s 8d ; good ordinary sorts may be quoted at 5s 4d ; inferior at 4s to 4s 6d ; and fowl wheat at 3s 3d. Oats are firm, but quiet; there is not a large sale just now—milting sorts are worth 2s od ; feeding, 2s Id. There is no barley offering. Potatoes dull at L 5 10s for Provincial. In Hour, a large trade has been done this week—the bakers in town are securing at L.U ; bags arc iu sale at LM 1 Os, Oatmeal, quiet, Lll 10s; bran, firm, LI ; pollard, JLS lOs ; jiearl barley, L 24 ; bay, L 4; chaff, L 4 ; Straw, L2 sa. A. Mercer reports for the week ending Korcml>er 23; Retail prices only. Fresh Gutter in £lb and lib prints, heat quality, fid per lb; second quality, 7d to 8d ; fresh butter iu lumps, 7d to 7id; powdered aud salt butter, Bd. The market is completely glutted with fresh butter, and the quality is superior to what has been for years. There i« no demand at present for salt butter in kegs; stocks are very heavy in tbs storekeepers hands, who are salting down large quantities weekly, and corndgmucms or otherwise from the neighboring Provinces to some of <>ur nie.'chams destroy what little sale wc might have -for good samples 8d per lb is asked. Cheese is now getting more plentiful owing to the new coming into the market, and a fall in price may be expected for good quality, Od to lOd per Jb ; English ham, ls4d tc Is Gd p«r lb ; Colonial hams, lOd ; side and rolled bacon, 8d to (Id per lb. Eggs are more plentiful this week and selling at Is 2d per dozen. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and (Jo. sold by auction the booths, &c., for the Dunedin. Eaces, to be held on St. Andrew’s Day. The gates were purchased by W. Watson for L 63 ; the grand stand by J, Reany for L 24 ; the saddling paddock by T, Murray for L 7 ; the stabling by R. Patou for Lll ; the race cards by Langley and Driscoll for Lll KJs ; grandstand booth, 'l'. Murray, 1,21 ; Xo. 2 booth, C. Armstrong, L 7 10s ; No, 3 booth, J. Cotton. LG. Total, LISI.