COMMERCIAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 660, 12 April 1870, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

■,i i 1 Grey Riveb Argus Office, ■ ; ;■ = ; ,■>:, .' 1 :■•■». , . Monday evening. The amount of revenue receded at'the , ; Custom, House lon goods passed for home consumption on Saturday and to-day ; was ; £74 12s.— Gold duty, £314 0s sd; , / MELBOtrKNE.— The Argm of the 4th inst. reports :— ! ' Little of ! importance Had transpired in the ( : import , markets to-day, and the week closes ; ' \vith the same appearance of lisffliness and inactivity which has; characteris&crthe earlier I part. Flour is very firm, at prices ranging : "from- Lllss to Lli 16% and sales for trade; 1 purposes are recorded • •at our quotations. •: -'' ■ r^:'- :<!>. \--:.i:^< : : ■;•;•;'■■■■ ' • .!■•■■ :i .hi- I .:i,:TT/ < ■.'•■■■.' i-

Wheat .continues., to come forward sparingly, fsnd supplies still?Veryjshprt of^reqiuremeSts. r OßuyiSr? ar6|'feageY cijotigh to purchase, and Iquofii^ionsjrule steady, at 4s 1 <LTd ;to 5s 2d. JMailJliis 13$ (good request a#4s to4gwjd for tadj|We||l|o heafeM *$ liSFp'f '3ftf*pg4 of ''n^irha^^^changea^tfuds M< 4s SdVCajyues ai%ujliflp%rate request at 10£dto lOgclfor besrlfatid^ We are informed of some 3000 boxes, a mixed parcel De Roubaix's and -BrandonVhay.ingjAe.en r t^^ cession on this quotation. We understand that the new Patna rice, per Isabella Brown, has met with some attention ; about half the has been taken up at a very full price, 'Md^n^o^iifbloifs"' v afe'*'"'pen!flin'g'-' which' it ! is expected will' result i& Jihe dispersal :pf the jremainder of . jthe Inquiries for ; . gunnies ■ /ire maintained with great steadiuess for trade purposes. Numerous orders are coming; in, from the country districts. We, moreover, hear of one line of 90 bales, having changed hands at close on Bs. A line of 110 bales, newly arrived it is also said, has been cleared off at Bs. On Monr day, Messrs Fiaser and Co. will sell the cargo of the Sarah, from Mauritius, consisting of 4035 bags sugar.