COMMERCIAL.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 792, 9 February 1871, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Grey River Argus Office, Wednesday evening. The amount of revenue received at the v.astoms on goods passed for home consumption on Wednesday was £259 0s 2d.

We are indebted to tbe Collector of Cusoms for the following instructive returns : — Return of Quantities and Values of certain. Goods imported 'Foreign at the Port of Grtjymoutb during the Years 1868, 1869, and 1870, for the production of which there are industries existing in New Zealand : —

Return showing the Quantities and Value of duty free Colonial Produce imported from the Australian Colonies to the Port of Greymouth, during the Years 1868, 1869, and 1870 :-

Quant. Value. Ale and beer, in bottle and bulk - ... galls Bacon and hams... cwt Biscuits, plain and fancy ... pkgs Beef & pork (salted) cwt Blacking ... pktrs Fish, palted (dried) cwt Timber ... sp. ft. 45,904 553 202 121 56 577 31,712 £14.290 10,078 717 228 243 1,506 444 I iSLSOft.

Articles. QUAKT. Value. Bran and pollard... ions Bricks ... No. Chaff ... tons Eggs ...pkgs Flour .. ... tons Grain, viz.,— Wheat, oats, maize, barley, . beans and peas... bush Hay and straw ... tons Livestock ... head Oatmeal ... cwt Plants ... pkgs Gruit — Green ... pkgs Seeds -Garden ... pkgs Vegetables, viz.- Potoes, onions, carrots, turnips, green peas, presd . vegetables pkgs Preserved milk (American production) pkgs 20 36,932 6214 292 3,495 £90 337 8,968 2,818 57,960 N 2,359 27£ 5 165 25 1,038 104 ' 681 271 35 126 255 714 360 7,063 4,677 3,428 10,284 _ 1£87,576