Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3778, 3 April 1875, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption thia dav was 1842 2s lid. * Consequent upon orders received during the race week, a large quantity of goods has heen forwarded up the country, and in the general market a fair amount of business was transacted. A closing sale of general merchandise at Messrs Dalgoty, Nichols, and Co. s attracted a fair attendance of buyers, and the large quantity of goods offered found purchasers at fair prices. But little change has taken place in values m the past week. Com sacks are in active demand, and command 11s 9d to 12s, according to quality. In candles there is a better feeling than for some time past, and they cannot now be bought under.lojd in parcels of full weight, A correspond?ug stiffness has taken place in kerosene, prices for vmich are slightly on the advance. No special transactions have taken place in tea and sugars, which may he considered steady at last quotations, ihe orry change in spirits is in case brandy ; Henessy's having advanced to 30s 6d in consequence o. advices to hand that it has advanced to that' quotation in the Melbourne market. In dried rmts currants command 4*d, while Elemea and ®~^ anas are still unobtainable, and prices nominal. A heavy decline has taken place in salmon. Morton s can now be purchased at 11s 6d, and American at 10s 6d. In other goods no change in quotations can he made. 1 Hepburn and Co. to-day sold VaUey Freehold Quartz Mining ComP lant , aud machinery, consisting of one horse-power steam-engine, with batJ l of sta mps. together with blacktoots, sheds, manager's house, &c.,erected ®? «“•»«* acres, for 1550; and sectjo° 11, block 1., Dunback district, containing 91 55??'P2 les (o Q a reef lift wide on thesurface has been traced 500 yards) for LllO Bs. Messrs Wbitelaw and Co. report sales of share* the week as follows :-Nation7lnsuiS Standard, 12s to 12s 6d ; South to Mos&s " 268 645 Nationals:^ THE IABOE MARKET.

Mr Skene reports:— The demand for servant* wi, for town and country, his been d£S 9“ eek- Coopts without experience are neglectecf Placed. Female servanto of the *s® f* 1 ®?- Jkr ° st trad es are busy! T^PrkT 000 / Bushmen and farm hands, 155 LM, 165, and 170; married people, 176, 180 and d »^ epberdß '^ 0 “ 8 ' cooks, 14ft .£1? w\° P er week; females, from 126 to S?s 5 L3S M dairy lad, aid mum7^w to * per Y eek; carpenters and Sfto?bfS wL£ perdßy 5 ,tore hands * fr ®