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The revenue collected at the Customs on Friday, January 4th, amounted to £942 9s sd. The following are the items:—Wises and spirits, £327 Ob lid • ale, £lO 5s s bitters, £5 2s 9d; sarsapanlla, £3 4s • cigars, £96 10s lid: 15 bacco, £BB ss; tea, £llO lis 6d: sugar, £242 12s; cocoa. £6 ss; candles, £lO 8s 4d j drapery, £37: sundries, £5 4s. LIVE STOCK MARKET. Messrs Clifford and Co., Cashel street, report ou their usual weekly sale, January sth, as follows : Cattle—Milch cows and springers, about* 15 head yarded: buyers backward, and no transactions of any note to record ; calves, 18s to 30s, few in market, and good prices still obtainable for what is offered. Pigs—The amount of stock offering is still small, and no change note in prices ; vendors careless about bringing their stock forward, on account of tho extremely low figure ruling. Poultry, per pair, fowls, 3et0486d; ducks, 4s 3d to ss; geese, inferior, 7s to 9s; turkeys, & win market, prices 7s to 15s, for a poor class of birae. Fair attendance at all the sales throughout the day. MELBOURNE MARKETS. By the Tararua we have Melbourne papers to December 24th. The " Argus '* of tfctajs date reFlour is quiet, but quotations are very taw of £l2 10s to £l2 15s, according to quantity, an<jt trade sales We mating at these rates, but nothing more Old wie&t is saleable at 5s lid, and for new 5s 9d to 5s lOd is quoted, with, however, not much offering. Oa' s are \~?*y firm ' an<l # ood feeding arc worth 4s 6d to 4s 7d. there is, mc*e.over, every prospect of prices going Etu 1 higher. Instructions have been received by telegraph i* olll New Zealand to hold oats at present stored lu r e fo £ 5s - a ? ir ; cumstauce that sufKciently speaks for . 'ke ieeung entertained by outsiders regarding the pro6^ ects ° the market. Nor are advices regarding our J*"' 1 crops very encouraging. Maize, which was yesterday sold at 5s 6'd, was, before the day was over, disposed of at 5s 9d, and this figure is now quoted; hut there is no stock on hand, and only the most trifling business can be reported. Sugars are steady, though after recent sales buyers are not over anxious to operate. A parcel ot 500 nuits of Java has, however, been placed at a satisfactory figure; 1100 bags Mauritius have also been sold at £33 to £35. The Sugar Company's qualities ot" Victorian refined have a very good trade demand at sa*lt»red ratei. We understand that it is conteni£j**f4>y*J»i»fi9»Fto7to ftt «9 tlw ojd works at wmm wt ft* mwf * we tt slr&m wvt, »»

article largely consumed by all the brewers. Further sales of John Boss and Co.'s whisky are reported at close ou 4s 6d, a figure now generally in-iked. The copy of a telegram received this morning, dated London, 20th December, has been sent To ns for publication, which states :—" Hennessy lias not quoted new vintage; other prices maintained;" and our informant goes on to say, " From the above I infer, according to my code, that Otard has not opened his prices for new brandy, as currently reported in this market.