COMMERCIAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 434, 24 October 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

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, October 22 and 23, was £642 13s sd.

Melbourne. —Tho Argus of the 17th inst. reports : — No new feature of any interest has transpired in the import markets to-day, but business continues to maintain an aspect of great quietness. We note a good and steady demand for flour at Ll3 10s to Ll4, and the market nresents a tendency towards greater firmness. Trade parcels of wheat have been disposed of at from Gs to (5s (id, according to quality. Oats are very dull, and no transactions can be reported. Maize, on the other hand, meets with a very brisk. inquiry, and an improved, tjne altogether has been imparted to the market of late. There are no sellers to-day under 3s 9d. Holders of cornaacks are very stiff in their ideas, refusing good offers. "We hear of some forty balos having been placed on terms withheld ; we qnote from 12s to 12s 3d., in bond. There has been more doing in sugars, chiefly for export, some 3,300 bags of Java yellow pounters and white crystals having changed hands at very full prices. The sale of the Wolverine's cargo of Mauritius sngais (arrived to-day), consisting of 4,800 bagt, is advertised for Monday next. This cargo is of the new crop, and the assortments are said to be superior. The damaged portion of the Rosario's cargo will also be offered for sale | on the samo day. The M. W. Sass's shipment of teas, comprising 8,997 packages, was offered for sale this forenoon, but as the importers' limits could not be realised, the whole was withdrawn ; a small line, after the auctioneer left the box, was disposed of in the room, and at a Blight concession on the rates required, the whole of the common teas, comprising the greater portion of the cargo, could have been cleared off without auy difficulty. A line of of 500 half-chescs of common congou was sold privately at Is 2d. Candles are more noticed, being moved off more "readily ; .sales have been made of Brandon's at lO^d, and of gold j label at lOgd. For Cape raisins we quote from 4^(l to 4^d ; a parcel of 500 boxes realised about our quotation. Soda crystals have been quitted at LlO 15s. Tn tobaccoes we hear of the sale of a shipment of Venus tens at au advance on late sales. In metals increased business has come under our notice. Two parcels, amounting to about one hundred and eighty tons of pig-iron, have been sold, at a fair concession on the trade rate of L 5 10s. Some 800 kegs of American nails have been cleared off at 17s A small shipment of sheet zinc was placed at L 33 ss.