COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2663, 19 October 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

ITia Customs duties collected at OhiiaSchurob ®u Tuesday. October 17th, were as follows Spirits, £346 4s 3d; tobacco, -CB3 Is 6d; oigars, £l4 14s ; snuff, £l6 16s; wine, £’.o3 13a 4d; beer, .£6 15a; sugar, £tß 10s 3d; tea, £34 10a; goods by weight, £33 14a 6d ; ad valorem, £l4 10s; other duties, £2B 12s, Total, £737 0a XOd. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Dunedin, October 18. _ flattie and grain market, 1 here was a fair supply of fat cattle to-day. and prices were well supported. Bullocks sold up to £l4 10s, and cows to £ll 7b 6d. Beef is quoted at from 27a 6d to 30s per 100. Pat sheep were in small supply, and prices advanced by 2s to 2s 6d per head, crossbreds bringing from 1 is 3d to 13s 6d, merinos 13s 6d; mutton quoted at 3d per lb. Grain —'Wheat—There is no improvement to report, millers being unwilling to lay in stocks at present quotations, which continue nominally at 4a Cd to 4s 9d for prime milling, and 4 s to 4s 3d for Imodium; fowl feed —The demand is scarcely so brisk as of late, and we quote 2s 6d to 3a 9d per bushel. Oats —Save placed several parcels of good bright feed at up to 3s 3d, but beyond that figure even for milling purposes buyers are not inclined to ho ; milling, 3s 3d; good bright feed, 3s 2d to 3s 3d ; discolored and musty 2s lOd to 3s Id, but difficult of sale. Barley—Prime malting could be placed at ss, but the demaud is not active on account of brewers holding considerable stocks.