Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3226, 23 June 1873, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption this clay, was L 1.296 Is 3d. # , . _ The number of persons that arrived in Port Chalmers during the past week was 64 : of this number 54 were frem the neighboring Colonies, and 10 from other parts. The departures were 36 for the coast, and 26 for foreign parts. Saturday, noon. Business during the past week has not exhibited much briskness, though in some respects a fair amount has been done. The import markets have witnessed some fair transaction, and have maintained a steady appearance ; the approach of the half-yearly balancing time will probably induce quietness for the remaining part of the month. In the grain market we note a moderate extent of business, but during the last few days fewer growers’ parcels have been coming in. Good grinding parcels of wheats are worth ss, but the town millers are not large buyers at present. Barley, though scantily supplied, has not improved, and la is probably the top price that could be obtained. Oats are in demand for export, and last week’s high prices are fully maintained, viz., 4s 2d to 4s 3d. At the town mills flour is quoted at Ll2 to Ll2 10s, with no immediate pros pect of alteration. A steady demand has been experienced. Good parcels of provisions are in request. Cheese is in scant supply, and worth B,Jd to 9d. Bacon and hams also scarce, and worth 9d to Butter, though in better supply, is held for lid. In spirits, the values of all kinds remain as last noted, the sales being of very limited extent. Hennessy’s brandies continue to be quoted at 7s 9d, Sugars have been in good demand at maintained rates, but without anything more noticeable than the quittance of trade parcels occur - ring. In Teas there have been several transactions of moderate extent, and in these, prices

are noted as fairly sustained. Kerosene has been quiet, and the large supplies again advised as shipped for this port prevent large buyers operating; in the meantime 2s 3d to 2s 4d are quotations. There has been little doing in malt or hops, and no sales of any extent reported during the week. Parcels of old hops are offering freely, and at lower rates, but it is extremely difficult to find buyers. No improvement Can be noted in hemp goods. Galvanised iron and fencing wires continue at firm rates, with a good amount of business in light parcels. Sales of salt to arrive have been made at 106s, and nowit witnesses a disposition to improvement; from the enhanced cost in the Home market, a better price will no doubt be sought for the next shipments coming forward. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. re{jort, for the week ending June 21, as folows: — Stock,—Fat Cattle: The supply was large and mostly of inferior quality. Our sales comprised 66 head. Good quality brought from 22s 6d to 24s per lOOIbs; medium do, 18s. We also sold, privately, for forward delivery, 30 head, at 30s per lOOIbs; and, to the Meat Preserving Co., for immediate delivery, 30 head, at 17s per IOOIbs. Fat Sheep.—7oo were penned. We sold 300 merino wethers, small, but of fair quality, at 9s 6d. Other sales were -100 cross-breas at 15s 6d; the balance being turned out. We also sold privately 2,000 cross-breds for forward delivery at 4dperlb. We quote prime half-breds 3d per lb; do merino wethers, 2Jd. Store Cattle: * There are buyers for good bullocks. We have disposed of several small lots amounting to 65 head at L 3 15s to L 4 ss. We quote bullocks L 4 to L4s ss; mixed lots, L2 10s to L2 15s. Store Sheep : Very little business is doing in this class of stock, sellers looking for rates beyond the views of buyers. We sold 500

three-quarter-bred ewes in lamb at 18s, and 600 half-bred# at 14s 6d. We quote halfbreda, in lamb, 15s to 16s; do mixed, not in lamb, 12s to 13s; do lambs 10*; merino wetbers, 7e to 7s 6d; full-mouthed ewes, in lamb to Leicester rams, 6s to 7s. Horses : The market during the week has been dull for almost all descriptions of horses, and very few hj ive changed hands. We sold a small shipment of light hacks, ex Claud Hamilton, from Wellington, on account of Mr James Campbell, at from L 7 to Lls. We also sold, on account of Mr James Campbell, of Breadalbane, West Taieri, a very fine draught Clydesdale yearling colt by Sir William Wallace, dam by Napoleon, at a satisfactory price. The purchasers are Messrs Fleming and Hedley, of Oamaru, who intend using him as a stud horse. From the breeding of his sire and dam, and the immense bone he himself possesses, he must prove a great acquisition to the district to which he is going. We quote first-class draughts LSO to L6O; medium do, L 25 to L3O; good hacks and light harness horses, L2O to L 25 ; medium do, LI to Ll4; light and inferior, L 3 to L 6. Grain, —Wheat, of which there is not much offering at present, is saleable at 5s 3d per bushel for good samples, and 4s 9d to 5s lor middling do; fowl’s food, 3s 9d to 4s per bushel; oats continue scarce, and are worth 4s 3d and 4s 6d per bushel for feed and milling respectively.