Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3545, 3 July 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Ou«-tjm-house ol cleared for consumptiot. was this day L 1,103 14s 7d, A Mercer reports for the week ending to-day : —Retail prices only : Fresh butter in Jib and 11b prints, best quality, Is 9d to Is lOd per lb; second quality, Is 8d to Is 9d per lb ; fresh butter, in lumps, Is 7d per lb ; salt butter, Is 6d per lb. The present supply of fresh butter is very limited, the shops barely getting enough at present to supply their customers, and prices are still advancing. Cheese, best quality, lOd to Is per lb. Side and rolled bacon, lOd to Is per lb., and market well supplied. Boiled hams, 9d; Colonial hams, Is to Is 2d per lb; English hams are very plentiful at present, but in very little demand, at Is 6d to Is 6d per lb. Eggs are in more demand this week, and not so plentiful, retailing at 2s per dozen.

SUBURBAN AND TOWN PROPERTY,

Messrs Connell and Moodie report:— In suburban lands the owners appear disposed to hold for extreme prices. Last month we offered (on behalf of one of our principals) above L 20,000, or at the rate of i ,150 per acre, for a parcel a little over 130 acres, but the negotiation fell through on the matter of terms. Town property has advanced to what may be regarded as extreme prices, especially for choice business sites. We have sold the ground and building lately occupied by Messrs D. Baxter and Co., with frontage to High street of 25ft, by depth of 40ft (opposite Railway Station) to the Dunedin Savings Bank, for L 3.000; a«d we learn that the Colonial Bank has purchased the ground and building now used as offices by Messrs Driver, Stewart, and Co, from Mr B. Hallenstein (40ft frontage, by 60ft depth), for the sum of L 6,000, Really good building sites for private residences are scarce within the limits of City boundary, at from L2OO to L4OO per acre, and for small subdivisions a rate even higher has been obtained. Good suburban sites close to town are scarce, at from LIOO to L2OO per quarter-acre. We have sold at the latter rate within the last week.

[By Telegraph.]

MELBOURNE, June 27.—The markets are dull. Flour js lower. Oats are firm ; stocks light. Prices, 5s 4d to 5s 7d. Candles are in good demand. Large sales of teas have been effected in consequence of news from Foochow, stating that the market is higher and the quality of the teas inferior. A telegram from Batavia reports sugar as advancing rapidly. A telegram states that Hennessy commences selling brandy at 200 francs per hectolitre. Salt has advanced, owing to the small supply shipped. House and Co., grain factors, have failed, with liabilities at L 15,000. Wheat at Adelaide, 5s 8d per bushel.

Wellington, July 3.—Flour, Oamaru, Ll3 12s 6d to Ll4; Canterbury, Ll2 5s to Ll3. Wheat, milling, none. Chick, 4s to 4s 3d. Oats, 4s 9d to 5s for milling. Maize, 6> 9d to 7s. Potatoes scarce, at L 5 10s. Bran, Is 4d. Pollard, 7s. Cheese, 7d to 7. A ,d. Butter, 2s. 'Christchurch, July 3.— Prices are as follows Wheat, 5s to 5s 3d; oats, 4s 9d ; barley, 6* 3d to 5a fid ; flour, Ll2 to Ll3 ; butter, Is Id to Is 2d; cheese, 7d; bacon and hams, 7d •to 8d; potatoes, L 4 ss— all f. o. b. at Lytelton.