Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4288, 23 November 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

* The amount of revenue received at the Custom* bouse on good* cleared for consumption this day was LBBI 10s id.

Messrs M Landress, Hepburn, and Co. this afternoon offered by auction the cargoes of sugars ex Countess of Errol. The attendance of the trade was large, but the depfessiug influence of an overstocked market was too manifest. Only 1,800 pockets of yeyows were quitted at from L3O 15a to li 3110s.

Mr Henry Driver (on behalf of the N.Z.L. and rM.A. Co.) reports for the week ending November 532,1870, as follows; — Wool.—Cablegrams dated Loudon, November 8, ad'vise continued, great competition at the sales in px« 'gress, prices having advanced to February rates, tliareby recovering the total fall in prices from that dxvttn This has token all interested in this staple by surprise, gratifying to growers, however per* p}tearing for bnyers to guide their operations. Some si nail clips weriaofferedat ;the sales this afternoon, for which there wns keen competition, greasy cross* hr. Eds realising BJd to 9Jd; merino, 8d to 9}d—• shi > wing a near approach to last season’s rates. S3 leepsMns.—We catalogued 1,500 skins, which part icipated in advanced rates for wool; green croi s-breds, none; merinos, 5s Id; dry cross-breds, up x> 5s 3d; merinos, 4s 9d. S ides are exceedingly dull. It was with great diifi cnlty we effected a clearance of the lots we oi fei'ed. Wet salted, 3d to 3Jd per lb for good condi turned; inferior lots, very low prices. The fall in leather has so reduced the value of hides in all nr trkets that shippers cannot operate. - • Fallow .continues in brisk demand, very medium 4u ility bringing 25s 6d to 80s 6d. ' (knin. —Wheat is chiefly out of farmers'bands ami not obtainable, though with a further advance in ilour to Ll6 per ton high rates could |be obtained. It is satisfactoi yto be able to report that tine-next harvest promises to be large, s\nd will be four weeks earlier than usual, if propitious ripening weasther succeeds tho favorable growing, almost fo.ccdng, season. New wheat is expected in ;he mills in the Oamaru district in January. Oats are in be tter supply, and reported to be a little easier; we made salea pf fine feed to-day at 2s Bd. Barley is more inquired lor, feeding samples being re* quirt'd to take place of fowls’ wheat, of which there is little in the matket. Halting samples are still ut glected. (For rest of New* see First Page.)