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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 270, 5 October 1867, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Grky River. Akgus Office, Friday evening. The amount of revenue received at the C'ustpm House on goods passed, for home consumption on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 3 and 4, was as follows : — Thursday - - • £29 1 0 Friday r : : 116 16 6 ■ ' ' £}45 17 6_ The unsettled and stormy weather that has prevailed during the last few days has mar terjally interfered with the ordinary course of business, and transactions have been limited ji cpnsequence. Stqcks of most kinds of goods are lower now than they have, been for a considerable time past, but this has had ljttje pffect on prices. Additional supplii p. however are to hand, as the Clarendon, and probably one or two other vessels, from Melbourne are putside ready to be towed in as soon as the weather moderates. For colonial • produce the following quotations may be given :— Potatoes, L 7; oats, 4s ; chaff, LIG to Ll7 ; butter, prime, Is 3d to Is 5d ; flour, Adelaide, Ll9 ; do Canterbury, LlB. In live stock, Messrs D. Maclean and Co report the sale of the Wallabi's cargo from "Wanganui— Bullocks, at an average of L2l 10s ; sheep, 265. Dunedin.— The Daily Times, of the 27th ]i!t, reports :— During the last day or two the business done has been light, and limited to the supply of trade parcels and to a few gporls shipping coastwise. In the import market there have 1 ieen no considerable operations. Breadstuffs a c very quiet, and in imported flour next to nothing is doing. No jnquiry has been manifested for spirits and wines, npr have malt liquors, either in bulk or bottle, had any attention. Sugars and teas have been selling, but in these as in other gopds there is no disposition to p|;her than very moderate purchases. In consequence of the late small shipments of hops, holders are seeking a better price for the few in hand. Oamaru wheat is rr ported as haying beeu placed in considerable quantity at advanced rates. In other respects market values are without altjration.