COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 312, 12 June 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected yesterday was as follows:

The fine weather during the past few days has enabled a little shipping to be done, but business generally is far from brisk, as orders come forward but slowly, while country deliveries have almost ceased. Wheat is nominally worth 3s 5d to 3s 6d for really choice milling; flour is quoted at £9 10s at the mills for 2001 b sacks, and £9 17s 6d for 1001 b bags. Oats are quiet, and likely to remain so, as orders are gradually finding their way South, where prices arc cheaper. In Oamaru prices are quoted at 2s 2d to 2s 4d, so that it is not likely that many orders will be received here while oats arc obtainable in Oamaru at the above prices. Burley is quite neglected. Butter is decidedly easier, as several large holders arc getting anxious to quit. Sales have been made at Is 2-Jd. Cheese is firm, at 9d for prime. Potatoes are moving at £3 ss. We notice cargoes are on the way irom Tasmania, Circular Head, and Warnambool for Auckland, which on arrival will probably bring prices down. The past week has been the dullest experienced in the import markets for months past. We have to report very few large sales. Most of the business transacted has been in small trade parcels Stocks (with the exception of a few lines) are fully ample until arrival or vessels now overdue from London. Trade must also be dull in Dunedin judging irom the number of travellers here trying to push off goods in this market. The demand for all lines of spirits has been fair. Hennessy’s bulk and case brandy meets with the lion’s share of attention, at 9s 3d to 9s 6d, and 328. Islay whiskey commands 6s 9d to 7s ; Campbellton, 5s 6d. Case old tom finds purchasers at 14s 6d i.b. The sugar market has been fairly brisk, Mauritius whites realising £44 10s to £46; a few sales of yellow crystals have been made at £43 to £43 10s d.p. Several small lines of teas have been placed at Is 5d to Is lOd i.b. j the dcior fine qualities is very good. Tobacco has been dull; we have nothing beyond the trade sales to report. Bottled ales and stouts have been placed to arrive at lls 6d to lls 9d, for quarts. Price's candles have been sold as high as H Jd, owing to stocks being low; sales, however, are being made to arrive (now due) at lid. Kerosene meets with attention

at 2s to 2s 3d d.p. for trade lots. A tew tons of No 9 fencing wire have been disposed of at £34 10s. Thu market is still bare of English hops—colonial growth are worth from Is 9d to 2s d.p. Stocks arc extremely low in currants and Eleme raisins; sales have been made at 5d to for the former, and 6|d to 7d for the latter.

Messrs J. T. Ford and Co report on the live stock market for the week ending Friday, the 11th inst, as follows:—The yards at Addington were unusually full of fat stock, both sheep and cattle, about 3000 I'at sheep and 320 head of fat and store cattle. We report no alteration in values: mutton from 2ld to 2|d per lb, beef 35s per 100 lbs. The demand for store cattle is not nearly so brisk as it was, consequent upon the shortness of feed, and in prices for this class of stock we do not contemplate any change before the spring. There is, however, an unusual demand for store cross-bred wethers, and a limited supply in the market; merino wethers are also inquired for, and prices for them as the season advances will rule high. We quitted on Wednesday last at the yards over 1500 sheep and 220 head of cattle —sheep for Messrs Griffiths, Brown and Allen, Clarkson, McAlpine, Bovey, and W. White, at prices for cross-bred ewes 15s Cd each, merino wethers 13s (id each, merino ewes (is ltd each, and medium quality at 12s 6d to 13s each for cross-breds, and 11s each merino wethers. We have also quitted cross-bred ewes for fattening purposes at Us each. In cattle we disposed of 220 head fat for Messrs Malley and Anderson at 35s per 100 lbs, and 18-1 head of station stores on account of F. W. Delamain, Esq, at an average of £5 3s 6d each.

£ 8. d. Spirits ... Tobacco ... 252 16 49 11 4 3 Tea 11 12 6 Wine 31 12 1 Sugar 9 4 0 Candles 20 16 8 Currants 10 16 1 Sundries ... 42 19 8 £435 4 7