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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 273, 12 October 1867, Page 2

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Grey River Argus Office, Friday evening. ! The amount of revenue received at the Custom House on goods passed for home consumption on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 10 and 11, was as follows : — i Thursday -■ " - , ■ £\5 3 8 \ Friday r , 712 IS 10 £728 2 6 Gold duty, • . • £300 0 0 : ,Mel3oUrne v — The Argxis ef the 27th ult reports :— , • In the import market a fair amount of business has been transacted to-day; In breadstuffs we note a decidedly tinner feeling. Buyers oLYictoriari flour are now. more inclined to operate, at LI 1 ss ; while, on the other hand, holders are firm, at.Lll 10s, and there being every prospect of .realising this figure, refuse to sell iinder. A line. of about 200 tons of Adelaide flour has been taken up, in bond, on private terms; There is no wheat offering;; .prices are firm at 4s lOd. In feed, corn— >tz., barley i an.4pfttK-=:.io sales

have transpired ; maize, however, goes j steatH'y into the hands of the trade at Ss^ to !3s 2d. There has been more doing in rice, though .only for trade purposes. Some thirty tons of Patna have been placed in parcelr, at up to L 27, New season's teas are freely looked after. We hear of further sales of the Tek Li's cargo having been eflected to the axtent of 700 chests, at prices, ranging ac.-. cording to quality, at from Is Oil to 2s 7d, in bond, One i r two small lines of the Hans' shipment have also been placed at 2s to 2s 3d for chests and half-cheats. .The pargo of the Lio will be offered to the trade privately. Sales of medium counter sugars are reported at 31s. Dark half-pound tobaccoes have been disposed of at Is 4d, and a shipment of 100 bales of Calcutter leaf found a purchaser at close on lfd per lb. In liquids, we learn of some 4000 cases of common brandy having been purchased for shipment on terms withheld—a very low figure, we understand, was accepted for the parcel. Renault's case brandy has been disposed of at 225 ; about. GOO cases changed hands. Trade parcels of V, H. and Co. geneva have been quitted at 8s Gd. A parcel of Whitbread's stout ia bulk was placed at L 4. There i 3 no alteration made this month in the rate of exchange on England, 1 per cent, premium being the rate uniformly charged by all the banks. Dunedin. — The Daily Times of the 2nd inst. has the following :'•— Business continues quiet. The import market is without activity, and none but insignificant operations have come under notice. The advices to hand from Britain (via Panama) have had no sensible effect upon markets, which arc without any material change, either in rates or in the comparative degree of firmness with which various staples are held. Christchurch. — The following is the grain market report of the Lyttelton Times of the 7th inst. :— The grain market continues very dull, and our former quotations are not maintained. A considerable fallingroff in the demand for wheat and oats has at length caused a decline in prices. We quote wheat at 3s Gd per bushel ; barley, 3s to 3s Gd ; .and oats, 2s to 2s cd. Superfine Canterbury flour still holds its price of from Ll2 to Ll4 p;r ton ; bran, L 4; aud sharps, L 5 per toii. Good hay can now be bought at L 4 per ton delivered.