Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4308, 16 December 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at tee Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption this day was L 1,034. . General business was brisk throughout the week, although somewhat Interfered with by the rainy weather and the Past Day of tee Presbyterian Church. Although every advance lately reported has been sustained, no change of prices can be quoted. There is much inquiry, However, for every artiole’which has risen in value, with a tendency upwards in some of teem. Brandies, although they cannot be quoted higher, are very firm at late quotations. Kerosene is reported by telegram from Melbourne to be advancing rapidly in teat market, and notwithstanding the late arrival the price in Dunedin continues high. Caudles have ndt participated in the rise in kerosene, and axe purchasable at former; values. Cerusacks ate firm, but have not advanced proportionately with the advance in Melbourne. They can be purchased at, 9a 6d. No further change has taken place in oilmen’s stores, which, as well as dried fruits, maintain prices lately specified. In dairy produce, butter odmes to band freely, and is worth from lOd to lid: cheese, fid for .good samples; bams, in oldte, llsdj b&con, inolotb. fild; if hare, |d less. Messrs M'Laudress, Hepburn, and Go. report that they to-day offered’at their rooms the township of Grondon.Maori Hill,teejcope«.W*Df M*D.Bient. The sald atiraoted a large attendance of buyers as well as parties Interested in adjoining.property. After a good coinpet.tW, thirteen out of tee ni eteen allotments into which tee township is snbdivided wore sold at. prices varying from 1*56 to LB9 P«T Allotment of 15 poles, and. from LBS to H27 for areas of 30 poles, to? wholeresultihgin an average' of L 65 per allotment ■of 18 poles. The few unsold sections remain ’in Mefera' M'Landrfess; Hepburn,' and Co/» hands for sale till Tuesday morning.