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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 458, 2 December 1875, Page 2

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The Customs revenue collected yesterday was as follows £ s. d. Sugar lie G 5 Spirits 8G 2 6 Boots 16 19 7 Drapery 9 4 0 Sundries 108 3 6 £336 16 0 Melbourne;—'The “Argus” of the 20tli ultimo reports :—ln the import market a fair amount of business has been done to-day. Country orders still come forward freely, and a very much improved trade demand is experienced in consequence. Breadstufls show little change. Flour is moving off in small lots at £l3 58, but no special inquiry exists. Wheat is quoted at 6s 7d to 6s Bd, and good dry Northern would sell at our quotation, but there is not much offering. We hear, however, of a line of 2000 bnshels having changed hands at 6s Bd. In oats a very depressed feeling is still perceptible; quotations range from 3s 4d to 3s 9d, according to quality, but we are without any fresh business to report. Maize is decidedly firmer; 4s lid was accepted in the morning, but subsequently this figure was offered and refused for 500 bag parcels, and 5s is now generally required. A large business has been done by auction in sugars, but a decline of 15s per ton at least had to be submitted to on brewing; line whites, however, realised full rates. The cargo of Mauritius, per De Morest, comprising 6143 bags, was submitted to competition, and from the box the whole, except 500 bags, was disposed of; 30s 9d was realised for low grainy yellows, to 31s 9d for good; 30s 3d to 30s 9d was obtained for low yellow crystals, 3ls 3d to 3ls 6d for good, 32s for fine; 31s for good, to 32s 6d for fine brewing crystals; 3is 9d for good, and 32s 9d for fine grainy grey; and 34s 9d to 35s lor good whites. Low Bourbon rations were sold, all faults, at 21s to 225. Privately, sales of finest whites have been made at £34 10s to £35. Hops still attract attention. Some 46 bales have been disposed of at from is Hd to 2s. A line of fifty bales have also changed hands to arrive, at 2s ; the sample was very prime. Brewers’ lots arc moving at up to 2s 2jd. Teas arc going off to a fair extent; 600 packages have been quitted at Is 6d to Is B£d for medium to good medium congous. Galvanised iron is improving, and prices have advanced fully 20s. Fencing wire has risen into notice very suddenly, and since yesterday the market has been cleared of best brands to the extent of several hundred tons, and £2O is now required for No 8, quotations all round having risen to £lB to £l9 for Nos 6 and 7. A parcel of Calcutta cornsacks has been quitted at 8s 3d. Under the hammer, 113 packages tobacco were disposed of. Leaf brought 8d to lod, and fiat work was quitted at Is Id to 3s while faulty sold at Is 3d to Is Sjd. The timber sales comprise 339,000 ft Baltic white timber, which sold at from 6s to 11s 3d for 6 x I? to 6 x 1-J.