COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 66, 31 October 1864, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

SoTFTHLJorp Times Oiticb. Saturday JETening. The revenue collected at the Custom House today, for articles cleared for home consumption amounts to Is. 3d.-, • being duties levied as follows : — Brandy, 26 galls £11 14 0 Whiskey, 17 galls 7 11 11 Ale, &c, in bottle, 216 ga15... 10 16 0 Sugar, 2,848 lbs 1117 4 Sundries 0 2 0 Total £43 1 3 <&. Messrs. Carey and Grilles sold a lot of draught horses at their yards to-day, at prices ranging from £20 to £67. Messrs Mueller and Geisow sold to-day section 22, block IX., Invercargill Hundred, with dwelling house and improvements, for £140. We have no alterations in prices to report. Our markets generally are dull. Considerable quantities of goods continue to go up country. We have Auckland files to the 19&. inst. The New Zealand Herald of the 12th reports that, yesterday, Mr. S. Cochrsne sold the cargo of timber, ex Union, from Inverc&rgill. The battens brought 3s. 3d. ; the 3x 2 averaged 12s. 9d. ; and the remainder brought from 12s. to 17s. The New Zealander of the 13th has the following :— Mr. Buckland held an extensive sale of live stock and furniture at the Haymarket, yesterday, there being a large attendance present. * Bidding was brisk, and the prices realised were in the main good. Among the articles sold, a two-seated American buggy fetched £20 ; a side saddle and double-reined bndle, secondhand, £6 sa. ; another somewhat inferior, £4 103.; saddle with holster cases, £8 10s. ; riding saddle, £6 ; set of four-in-hand colonial harness, nearly new, £13. The American five-seated rock-away carriage advertised was sold to Mr. Mackie for £85. The two grey carriage horses, a capital pair, being purchased by Mr. Aitken for £41 a piece, he also j became the owner of the silver-mounted harness, double set, for £18. A handsome dark brown lady's saddle mare, six years old, was sold for £33. Of the Defence Force horses, of which there were something like fifty, the unbroken ones realised prices ranging from £o to £10 ; the brokeri-in one» from £9 10s. to £30 10s. We have Nelson papers to the 22nd inst. The Examiner reports as follows on the market : — . Mr. Jary quotes fine flour, wholesale, £26 per ton ; sharps, 125. ; pollard. Bs. ; bran, la. 3d. Bread, 4-lb lbaf, Is. ; butter, fresh, 53. per lb. ; eegs, Is. 6(1. per dozen ; cheese, Is. 4d. to Is. 6d. per lb. ; lard, Is. 3d. par lb. ; beef, Bd. to 9d. ; mutton, 7d. to Bd. ;■ veal, 7d. to Bd. per lb. ; pork, 7d. to Bd. ; bacon, Is. 6d. ; hams, Is. Bd. per lb. ; candles, home-made, lOd. ; onions, 6d. ; potatoes, 9s. per cwt. ; fowls, per pair, 4s. to ss. ; ducks, 65. ; geese, erch, ss. to 63. ; turkeys, each, 7». White pine and rimu.— -Boards and scantling, 15s. per 100 feet; totara and red pine, — Boards and acaotling, 19s. per 100 feet ; shingles, best totara, 18s. per 1,000. By the arrival of the s.s. Wellington yesterday (Sunday), wo have Dunedin files up to Saturday, the 29th inst. The Otago Daily Times of that date says : — The market remains rather inactive. With the exception of some transactions in building materials, business has been confined to retail transactions. On the receipt of intelligence from Melbourne, some degree of briskness will no doubt b» again manifested. No alteration in prices to note. Flour remains as before ; sales of Chilian are spoken of at £26, and of Adelaide at £30, but not large parcels.