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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 452, 5 December 1868, Page 2

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Urky Rivkr Anous Office, .Friday evening. • The amount of revenue received at the Custom House on goods passed for home consumption, on Thiirsday and J'liday, December 3 and 4, was £309 4s 6d. The items were as follows : —

Melbourne.—The 4rgus, of the 21s ult, reports as follows :-— Business in the import markets maintains a quiet aspect. In byeads^uffs vfe hear of more inquiries for flour at L7l3* 10s to Ll4, but only for trade purposes. Sales of (jalifornian wheat have also come under our notice at -extreme rates. In oats, sales of New Zealand at 3a Bd, and of Tasmanian at 4s, bags included, are reported in parcels of 2000, bushels in a line. Maize is firm at 4s 3d •, buyers, however, onjy o.perate with caution, and sales in consequence "have not been of much account. There'has been a considerable run on candles, and though the demand has been entirely free from' anyspeculative feeling, and confined to purchases for supplying trade requirements alone, the sales reported must in the aggregate have raached 4000 boxes at least, and prices tip to 'lid for best brands have been realised; Twist tobaccoes have received more notice. We hear of a line of forty half-tierces having changed hands. A line of about thirty-live half-tierces (if Barrett's twist on the spot, h-a9 been disposed of, and a rumor is also current that shipments to arrive of the same brand have likewise been taken up. Satisr factory rates have been obtained in every case, though the exact figure has not been allowed to transpire. Sa^es to the extent of 2000 quarter-barrels of Kahnes's blastingpowder have been mentioned at s|d to 5\A. A line of twenty-five tons of galvanised iron has been placed at L 29 for 26-guage. In liquids, brandy remains quite neglected, and no transactions of any description have been b, ought under our notice of late. Rum, nowever, meets with more favor. We learn of two entire shipments, 10 per cent, 0.p., and 30 per cent, having changed hands at prices sustaining market rates of 4s'3d to 4s 6d. ■'•.••

.Brandy Hum .Wine - C|larot Stout Tobacco Sundrisß December £. - - -£.116 4 5 ■ 18 .7 2 5 9 8 - 15 18 0 - - ?1 7 C - S2 ,12 6 6 0 3 £265 19 6 Pece.mber 4. Brandy Wine - Drapery Sundries • . r £1$ 12 0 5 14 5 - 11 9 8 . - .- 10 8 11 £43 5 0