COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2558, 20 June 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Vha Customs duties coll acted at Christ ihuroh on Saturday, June 17th, were as follows; Spirits, £125 15s lid ; tobacco, .£22 10s 3d ; wine, £7 2a 8d; sugar, £196 5a Id; tea, £6 13a 4dl; ad valorem, £sl 13a. Total, £ll3 2s 3d. COEN EXCHANGE. Report for the weak ending Friday evening, the 16 th inat:— .... . . , There is no change to report in the state of the market during the past week. Business is still exceedingly quiet, but for newly all classes cf produce prices are firm, and at present there is no indication of any alteration. Wheat. —Last week’s rates mu-t be repeated. Good milling quality, 4s lOd to 5s Id per bushel f .o.b. ; second quality, 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; chick wheat, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel; seed wheat, 6s 3d to 5a fid per bushel. Oats —A slightly improved demand has been visible daring the week. No quotable alteration in values, however, can be recorded. Milling quality, 3s 3d to 3s 4d per bushel; feed, 3s Id to 3s 2d per bushel. Barley—The demand for prime malting quality is good; for this class 4s fid to 4a 7d ■could be readily obtained. Second class molting is in larger supply, but is not in much request. 3s 9d to 4a 3d per bushel being the value ; feed samples are more salt able, at from 3s 3d to 3s fid per bushel. Beans and Peas—The former are worth 4s 4d to 4s fid, f.o.b ; the latter, according to quality, Potatoes —The fall in the Sydney market appears to have cast a shade over this. Holders, however, are firm, although business in the tuber is inactive ; 35s to 37s fid, at country stations, may be quoted as the values at which business could be done. Grass seed is entirely neglected at prasent. Cheese and Batter—The former is worth s|d to fid per lb ; the latter Is to Is Id per lb.