COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2669, 26 October 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

the Customs duties collected at Ohristobnroh on Tuesday, October 24th, wore as follows Spirits. £173 5b Id; tobacco, ,£lB9 10s 4d; wine, £63 3s 10d; sugar, £53 4s lid; tea, JBI2 3a 4d ; timber, ,£1 7s Id; goods by weight, £34 6s 9d; ad valorem, £24 15s ; other duties, £27 4a Id. Total. £578 18a 4d. COMMEBOIAIi TBIiEQBAMB. Dunedin, October 25. In fat cattle to day last week’s quotations were fully supported, with good competition Bollocks brought from £3 10s to £l3 15s, and cows up to £lO 10a. Beef may ba quoted at from 27a 6d to 30s per lOOlbs. There was a full supply of fat sheep, but last week’s high rates were nearly maintained, crossbreds selling up to 17s 6d, merinos to 15s 3d. Mutton is quoted at 2£tLper lb. Grain—Wheat : Millers are believed to be low in stock, but continue to hold off from purchasing in the hope of buying at reduced .quotations, of which, however, there ate no indications at present, bales of milling wheat are, therefore, very much restricted. Fowl feed arils freely, though not quite up to recent prices by auction. On Monday 363 bags of fowl wheat brought 2s 9d to 3s lid, and 450 bags of milling ■Am to 4a 8 id, which will sufficiently indicate the present values. Oats: At auction 1300 bags good short feed oats brought 3s 2Jd to 3a 3id, at which figures buyers show no disposition to advance. In the meantime the market may be reported firm there at, inferior and discolored, 2s lOd to 3a Id, without demand. Barley : No -ehange to record.