COMMERCIAL.
The revenue collected at the Customs on Monday, February 25tb, amounted to £633 ISs Id. The items were; —Spirits, £276 17s ; wine, £6l 14s 5d ; cigars. 15s ; tea, £BS 19s : coffee, £l2 5s 9d ; sugar, £95 17s; goods by weight, £2l 9s 8d; ad valorem, £72 18s; other duties, £6 0s 3d. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. A slight change has taken place in the value of wheat since Saturday’s report, ns some of the principal houses are now paying 4s 6d for really choice samples for immediate shipment. This advance, it is understood, is owingto receipt of a few outside orders which have put a little new life into the market. Oats and barley remain firm at la st quotatatious. Potatoes have anvanced through intelligence from Sydney, quoting sales at £lO, and are now saleable at 10s per ton over last week’s prices. In the Corn Exchange quotations published on Monday morning the quotation for oats for immediate delivery should have been 3a 7d, not 3s as printed.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1241, 27 February 1878, Page 2
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168COMMERCIAL. Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1241, 27 February 1878, Page 2
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