Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3559, 20 July 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cu» tjm-kouse on cleared for consumption was this day L 1,671 17s. Messrs M'Landress, Hepburn, and Co. report that they, on Saturday, offered for sale by auction at their rooms Mr C. R, Howdon’s township of Eglinton, abutting on the Town Belt, and adjoining the residence of Mr James Bat-tray. The sale excited considerable interest, and the rooms were crowded. The property was subdivided into forty-five allotments of about one-seventh of an acre each. The sale realized L 3,434 and prices ran from L6O to Llll per allotment, averaging LB6 per allotment, or equal to L6OO per acre.

(By Telegraph.)

. Christchurch, July 16.—The grain market is quiet. Quotations, f.o.b. ; Flour, Ll2; oats, 4s 9d ; barley, ss; wheat, 4s 9d ; bran, L 6 10s: potatoes, L 4 lOs: butter, Is id. Wellington, July 18.—Flour, Oamaru, Ll3 10s to Ll4 ; Canterbury, Ll3 to Ll3 10s; oats, 5s to 5s 3d; maize, 6s 3d to 6s 6d, market full; butter, Is 2d to Is 3d ; hams and bacon, lOd to lid. At sales by auction, Henneasy’s pale fetched 10s 5d per gallon; old tom, 12s per dozen; oats, 4s to 4s 9d per bushel; twentytwo cases port and sherry, 29s per dozen, d.p. Auckland, July 18.—Mr Buckland reports: Fat cattle, 30s to 40s; fat sheep, 5d per lb; dairy cows, 5s to 5s 9d; calves, 22s to 28s; lambs, 14* to 18*. G. W. Binney reports grain market dull. Oats, 6s to 5s 3d ; wheat, 6s 3d to 6s 4d; barley, 6s; bran, L 8; pollard, L 9; flour, Ll3 10s to Ll4 10s ; maize, 5s 6d to 6s ; hams and bacon, lOd to lid ; cheese, 8d; butter. Is 3d; potatoes, 6s to 6s 3d.