COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 12, 13 June 1874, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Globe Office, Saturday. The Customs revenue collected yesterday was as follows : £ s. d. £ s. d. Boots 4i 8 3 Treacle G 0 4 Tobacco 8 0 0 Spirits 7G 18 B Sugar 14 13 4 Wine 7 8 0 Tea G 7 0 0 Boots 13 4 0 Jewellery 38 7 8 Bice IP 16 8 Sundries 247 14 11 £555 7 7 The grain market continues exceedingly quiet, no alteration of any importance being noticeable in pries. A large sale is reported to a Melbourne buyer at a price withheld, but with this exception very little has been doing. Farmers' lots of wheat are offered in small parcels at 4s 4d to 4s 6<l, the demand being very quiet. The deficient yield reported from Victoria was expected to have given an upward tendency to prices, but no visible alteration has resulted. Flour is moving off slowly at £l2 10s for bakers' parcels in 2001 b sacks, but stocks are steadily accumulating. Bran continues to meet an active inquiry at £6 5s at the mill. Barley has a downward tendency, nothing but really prime malting parcels meets with any support. Discolored faulty lots are difficult to quit at 4s, choice malting being worth up to ss. Oats come forward slowly, and the few sales reported are at 4s. Hams and bacon are'wanted, and the curers find difficulty in executing orders at B£d for bare and 9d in cloth. Butter is also in excellent demand at Is, stocks getting rapidly reduced. Cheese continues scarce at 6d to Potatoes come forward slowly at £3 to £3 ss. A fair amount of business has been done in the import market during the past week. Spirits—Hennessy's pale brandy in bulk has changed hands at 10s 3d to 10s Gd. Holders are now asking lis. Martell's dark is quoted at 10s 9d. Other good brands are coming in favor at a proportionate advance. Geneva J.D K.Z.—A good business has been done in this line at full rates. Whisky commands attention at current rates. Sugar—A moderate business has been done in sugars at the following quotations:—Finest white crystals, £3B to £3B 10s ; yellow crystals, £35 ; brewers' crystals, £34 ; yellow counters. £3O. Tea—Business is almost entirely confined to the trade ; there are no large sales to report. Tobacco—A few parcels of St. Andrew's and Venus twist have changed hands at Is 8d 18. Flat tobacco'rathcr dull of sale. Oilmen's storer meet with the usual good sale at fair rates. A"good business has been done in Belmont sperm caudles at to Cement—We hear of a few parcels to arrive changing hands at 235. Galvanised iron, G. 0., is selling at £36. Slates —No sales to report. Bottled ales —We hear of no large sales to report; a few trade parcels have been quitted at lls Gd to 12s, according to brands ; stocks rathe' - heavy for this time of the year. Bottled stout is dull of sale ; a parcel of Barclay's was sold at auction at 9s d.p. : holders would take lis Gd to clear lines of best brands. Salt—Fine salt is now quoted at £ V 10s ; coarse, £4 ss. A fair business has been done at these figures.