COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 172, 4 June 1862, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Uunedin Customs, January 3rd, 1802.

Tfifj qunntity of gold entered to-day amounted to to 4.101 ozs. i'Z dwts., upon which the duty levied wan iftlSJ Km.

Tiie imports realLted £520 0?. od,

WEf,II3(iSTOS. . (Pr<>ui our Wellington Correspondent.)

Wellington, 30th May, IS6-2.

Throa auction sales have taken place since the 13th inst., but the business done has not been sufficiently extensive to enliven our commercial circles.

The moat noticeable feature, of the mouth is the departure of our third wool ship, the John Bunyan, with exports amounting to .-£2,209. As winter progresses, and our pastures are getting bare, the'pries of fat cattle is rising. Nothing worth the name of beef cau now be bought under !3^d. Several email flocks of sheep (ewes) have been sold Ma month at from 2'X< to 223, and one lot of store wethers so low as 15s a head.

Oi:r dairies are nearly cleared out, and the few farmers who navo held on will not sell under Is i'sd.

Oats are still scarce, and iu,demand at 5a Od, and good samples of seed oats will command G*. No maize yet brought down the country, the native farmers being etill indisroseu to sell. Wheat dull of sale at 6.1 to 6s 6d. Macon and liann still scarce, and good samples readily bring 6d tolOd per Ib. The purcli.'isi; by Alet-srs. Higgle aud Speed of the bri^'antine W. U, Oean shows, that notwithstanding the low estimate of the paying chavactor of I.ha ea'.l'e trada with your port which has lately bean ruiirg, tiirfv are determine.l to try to make it pay by saying intermediate profits. The Auckland market is sad to offer a bettor opening for fat steak. There they know somewhere about the amount tile expenses wili c.nne to, but with you, shippers sny there is no crJculajion, and the tax of half-a-crown a. hes.'.l on anivals by set, while overlanders from Canterbury a lid iLOutliland pay nothing, is a remarkably sore point. Thy F. A. Garriques has sailed with a-cargo for Auckland or Otago, according to the wind, and will probably find her way noithwurd. The Hermine is now rr.-.dy to load, but .she is to take same stock from Mr. 'i'reewict's station, at Wangunni, to oje he is forming at Canterbury, instead of continuing for the present her trips to your port. The Yarrow will alco make trif.7 to O'interbury, whither she is to convey tiCD head from the Wairarapa, to be driven overland to the ISlufJi. I hear the price per bead (agreed to Mraeiiuie cl'.lSo), delivered at the Bluff, i.s £9 per head, the seller being obliged (from causes not pecuniary) lio clear out his stock immediately at any figure.

A shipment of dead meat goes per Swan. Thin mode of shipment answered tolerably well last year, but the supply is of course necessarily limited to one or two days consumption.