Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3761, 13 March 1875, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on (roods .cleared for consumption this dav was 12957s Bd. . Business has not been brisk during the’ past week, most probably through the near - approach .of. the races leading most or the up-country storekeepers to defer ordering goods until then, when they propose personally to visit Dunedin. The damaged portion of the Tangarie sugars, per Saucy Jack, was B °ld. at auction yesterday. There was fair competition, and the prices realised were from L2O to L 32 per ton, according to the condition of the sugar, rifty hogsheads of Queensland rum found purchasers at 2s 3d. Brandy remains at last quotations. The market is fully stocked with ale and beer, and prices are unchanged. In dried fruits currants fetch last quotations, while Eleme and sultana xaamns are not to be obtained. Candles command 10id; kerosene remains as last quoted; com sacks, 12a; tobacco continues to advance, and parcels of mgnet brand have been sold at Is 9d in bond, other brands in proportion ; butter has further risen, and cannot be purchased under Is 4d; bacon is so scarce are merely nominal; bams fetch Is 4d "Wiutelaw and Co. report sales of shares during 55ft week ns follows: —National Insurance, 27a Sr 5 Standard Insurance, 13s; Colonial Bank, 20s; National Bank, 71s; Kanieri Lake Water-race Com(Limited), 18s 3d. Sellers Nationals, 28s, od; Standards, 13s; South British, 4Ss: National Bank, 72s 6d; Colonial, 21s, The sale of the privileges in connection with the ensuing race meeting was held this morning by „ . Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. The bidding /T aS i. sp ?’ 1 *' e d f° r the gates, stand, and saddling padclock ; but the booths did not command veiy high Kjf® B - The prices realised were os follows:—Gates, r oco m, Hugh Boss: grand stand, W - Watson; saddling paddock, Dl2O (1*77 10s), J. Mills ; stabling, L 8 (L 8), S. Powell; race JDnscoll; stewards’ booth, L 77 10s (1.58), Haynes; (L 92), C. Armstrong; No. 2 booth, 6 ? 10si), H. Falconer; No. 3booth, L 44 (L 53), Cuthbertson; No. 4booth, L3O (L 37), E. Holmes; ■ booth v ,lj27 (1.32), Weenan; ten stands for the sale of friut, etc., L 53 (L4O 15s), various purchases. The total amounted to L1,3i8 10s, as —showing an increase of A. Mercer reports for tin week endingl2tli March, retail prices only: Fresh butter, in half and one pound prints, 1s 6d per ,1b; fresh butter, in to Is’Bd per lb.; powdered and salt nutter, la 4d to Is 6d. The market still continues «o be barely supplied: with fresh butter, but quite enough to supply the de land. Salt bitter, in kegs, C ¥ eae of the best quality, lOd to Is „j® and rolled bacon in good demand, but S? ar ?. e » 2d to Is 3d per lb; colonial bams, la 4d; i- 811 18 to ls ®d > eggs are plentiful, and retailing at 2s per dozen. THE LABOR MARKET. wL 81 ® 0110 re P°? ts that the demand for all classes ve , ry actlv ® during the week. Most of the nnani ax % Priced, the only exceptions being ° r co £ plc9 large families L7{Pto Too : 7" Form and station couples, yVt and found; farm men, L 52, L 55, L6O. and females > from D 26 to L 52, and hotel «<x>kß. grooms, barmen, Srt L 4 to 1.12 per month; day laborers Kf rrl freely • carpenters, masons, &c., keep at from g? * boys and giris, from K ord i na p r shopmen onff clerks are dull, MO qnfijTT Paid ° f ; steplierdß and gardeners