Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4229, 14 September 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

fhe amount of revenne received «t the Customs' ouse on goods cleared tor oontraraptirm this dav ">*,-804185d.

The trustee in the estate of Messrs Steele and Koagh yesterday sold by auction to Mr A. T. Dunit ug tbe firms interest in the Queen's Theatre for j.lO. The purchaser pays the rent for the unexpired Iwis? (five months) as from yesterday. We underHand that a hitch has occurred in the sale, it being e aimed that tbe theatre was in the hands of the Commonwealth Company when Messrs Steele and Keogh filed.

Me Henry Driver (on behalf of the N.Z.L. and M.A.. Co.) reports for week ending September IS, 1576:

Wool.—A few parcels of fellmongers* wool have been offering at to-day's saleSj but have not found buyers, who appear to Be waiting delivery of letters per 'Frisco mail due here on Saturday. Shocpskins sold at our action to-day briskly, at an advance on last week's rates. We catalogued 1,150 s!cin«, principally green. Green butchers' sold at 8s 9.1 to 4a 4d; dry skins, cross-breds, 2s 9d to 3s 7d; merinos, 23 od to 2s 9d.

Hides were more sought after at a slight advance of atieut Is per hide, a few good lots of wet salted bringing over 3Jd per lb Tal low.—A small parcel of butchers'prime sold at lißOperton.

(in in.— Wheat arrivals are vary light, scarcely nuyofferiug, though prime milling is worth 5s 6d per b nshel. The remarks we mode in our report of last week respecting grain shipments from California, to these Colonies have soon been verified by an unexpected shipment per mail Bteamer of 1,500 bags oat* to Auckland, whero oats are quoted at 2s 8d per bushel. If that price will attract oats, wheat will 1)e much more attractive. Oats in this market hive, through temporary scarcity, advanced to 2s Id to 2s 2d for feed samples, and 2s 3d for seed. Barlpy very difficult of sale, unless milling samples, at 2b 6d to 2s 9d per bushel.