COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 599, 20 May 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected on Thursday w&ais follows

Only a moderate amount of business has been done in the grain market during the week. Wheat continues [languid, and only very prime samples fetoh last week’s prices of 4s for export; one or two really choice small lots were sold for millingat a slight advance on this, but we doubt if anything over 4s could be obtained for a large patcel. The demand for oats docs not improve, and although buyers are disinclined to offer late prices, sellers will not accept less at present, and we quote prime milling at Is 8d to Is 9d; ordinary quality, ls7d. Prime malting barley is in fair request; inferior samples, unsaleable. Millers’ quotations for flour are still unsettled ; purchases during the week have been made at £lO 10s in sacks, f.o.b. Dairy produce continues to meet with a ready sale; butter, at Is Id; cheese, Bjd. Bacon curers report that new stocks will shortly be in the market, but prices are not yet fixed; it is however understood that they will open very much under last year’s. A fair average business has been transacted in the import markets during the week Sugars have been moving olf fairly in trade parcels at current rates; we note the arrival of the Tullochgorum from Mauritius, on the nth inst, with 275 tons sugars, this, we understand, will be ottered to the trade privately, and not by auction as was anticipated. Teas—Box teas have been moving off fairly at satisfactory rates, sales have been booked at 2s 2d to 2s 4d d.p. j ordinary trade sales have taken place in half-chests at Is 5d to Is 9d i.b. In spirits we have not much to report. Brandy has met with sale only for trade requirements; the same remark applies to whisky, old tom, and rum. Wolfe's schnapps have received attention, and sold freely at current rates. Bottled Stouts—Several parcels have been quitted at 11s to 11s 3d for good brands, such as Blood Wolfe’s and Coomes’. Ales are hanging heavily on importers’ hands, and are difficult to place at any price. The demand for sacks has been for actual requirements, sales have been made in Dundees at los to 10s 3d. Several sales have been made in blue countess slates at £lB 10s per 1000. The market at present is almost bare, and holders are now asking £l4. Fancy lines in tobaocoes have been sold freely at good prices. Currants have been quitted at 4|d to 4|d. Candied peel (assorted) la 2d to Is 2|d. Large ■ales have been made in fencing wire, in sizes varying from 7 to 9 at £l7 10s to £2O.

was as louowB £ 8. d. Spirits . • Cigars .. ... 284 11 21 15 6 0 Drapery .1 ... ... 48 10 0 Sundries ... 12 0 0 £368 2 6