Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3059, 7 December 1872, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cns tarn-house on cleared for consumption this d «.y, was L 350 3s sd,

At Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co.’s sale this afternoon, in the Provincial Yanis, a large number of horses were offered, but buyers were not numerous. _ The horses that were disposed of were principally saddle and light bar - ness animals, and prices obtained for them showed no alteration from last week s quotations. Flour has a good trade sale at Ll4 to LI4 KJs. Inquiries have been made for speculative pal cols, but no transactions of moment have taken place ; holders in town are unwilling to dispose of quantities under Ll4, and at this price laige buyers consider there is not sufficient inducement. The sale for oatmeal is light, and. the price continues dull at Lll 10s. Bran is not overstocked—L4; pollard, L 5 10s. Potatoes have a bad market. Australian samples are unsaleable at any price ; for good Provincial, L 4 is the value. There is a good inquiry Jot wheat—the market price may be quoted at os .Id, but as there is none offering, a fixed value cannot be placed on it. At auction some 800 bags brought extreme rates—nearly equal to 6s on the ordinary trade terms. This price must be attributed to the scarcity of the gram, and not to its market value, for flour would require to be Llo to Lls 10s if this were the current rate. Second class wheat is plentiful, fowls wheat scarce. Oats, dull, 2s to 2s 2d. No barley offering. Malting is valued at bs 6d; damaged, 5s 6d: hay, L 3 lbs: chaff, L 3 15s ; straw, L2 us. A. Mercer reports, for the week ending December 7 Retail prices only—Fresh butter, « Mb and 11b lumps, best quality, 8d to Jcl; «ewbd quality, 7d; fresh butter in lumps, Ml <to 7d ; powdered and salt butter, od. Ihe anarket is completely glutted with fresh butter, and the .quality very superior this season. There is mo demand at present for salt butter in kegs. Stocks are very heavy in some of the storekeepers’ hands, who are salting down laige quantities weekly, and large quantities pouring in from the neighboring Provinces, either to order or consignment to como of our merchants, destroy what little sale we might have._ Tor good samples 7 j dto 7hi is asked Jheese is now .getting plentiful, owing to the new season coming into the market, and a fall in price may bo .expected. For best quality old cheese, 0d to 10a; new, 8il; English hams, Is 4d to Is (id per lb ; Colonial hams, lOd to Is ; Adelaide bacon, Sdto 9rf per lb. Eggs are plentiful, outselling well at Is 2d per dozen.