Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3581, 14 August 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cus tarn-house on s,oods cleared for consumption this day was L 859 9s. The following commercial information is contained in a telegram from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited), dated London, July 22 Wool: Up to date, 225,000 bales have arrived ; market firm ; Horae markets are lightly stocked. Tallow : Town-melted tallow is cheap ; there is no trade demand. Mutton, 41s per cwt; beef, 39s per cwt. Leather: 7,000 sides Australasian have been sold since last report. Wheat: Adelaide is worth 62s per 4961b5. New Zealand hemp continues dull of sale ; the stock, according to last returns, is 2,400 tons. [By Telegraph.] Christchurch, August 13.—Export quotations : Wheat, 5s to 5s 3d ; barley, 5s 6d to 5s 7d > oats, 4s 9d; flour, Ll2 to Ll3; bran, 1.6 ; pollard, L 6; sharps, L 7; cheese, 7d to 7Jtd; potatoes, L 6 ss; hams (uncovered), 10|d; bacon (uncovered), 7d ; hams and bacon (uncovered), Bd. Potatoes and oats are scarce. Millers’ stocks of wheat low. Wellington, August 14.—Canterbury flour, Ll2 10s to Ll3; Oamaru, Ll3 to Ll3 10s; bran, Is 3d to la 4d; pollard, L7to L 8 ; potatoes, L 5 10s to L 6 ; oats, 4s lOd to ss—retail prices at 5s 3d ; wheat, chick, 4s 6d; milling, 6s 3d to 5s 6d. Hams and bacon, lOd to lid.