Commercial.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 232, 11 July 1872, Page 5

Commercial.

Dnnedin, July 6. \ The total amount collected at the Custom House on goods for home consumption during the month of June, was L 17,208 Is ; gold duty, LI, 538 13s 3d. The amount received for the quarter ending June 29, was - L 55.642 15s 2d ; and the gold duty during the same period amounted to L 5.605 13s sd. JM We hear that the station of Mr J. A. Douglass, generally known as that of Com - I ber and Douglass, has changed hands for tho ■ sum of £14,000, MrW. A.Tolmie, ofDuijM din, being th« purchaser. |^B There is no change to report in bread-^B stuffs aud grain. Prices remain as hut given, M and, excepting in flour, sales have been ex- V tremely limited. Good brands^ flour ar M meeting with a first-rate trade inquiry. Th price has now become settled, and buyen^^ operate with more confidence. Trade parcels 1 are selling at Ll3 to Ll3 l()s ; inferior kinds J are again beginning to come into demand ; this perhaps is owing to the price of b r ead not being advanced in proportion as flour has bee .me :• i^her. Oatmeal, Ll2 ; bran, L 2 10a ; pollard, L 6 ; pearl barley L2O. Milling wheat is offering more freely ; several parcels have been offered at 5s 6d, but no sales have been effected ; the millers' price for good lots is 5s 4.4. Should they be induced to give the advance, a change probably will be made in flour. Fowl wheat is quiet at 3s. Milling oats have in no way improved, Is lOd b ing the highest valu i ; feeding arc disposed of at Is Bd.Fine samples of malting barley are readily placed at os 6d ; inferior sorts c.ih be sold at 4s 6d. Potatoes improving, L 415 s ; straw, L 2 os; chaff, L 3 15d ; hay, L 3 15s ; carrots and turnips, L2 los A. Mercer reports for the we"k ending 6th July: — Retail pi ie«-s only — Fresh butter, in Alb and lib p int-, best quality, Is 3d to Is 4tl per ib, ; s. i-oml qual ty, Is 2d to Is 3d ; fresh but er in lumps, Is Id; pow- , dcred and salt butter, beat quality, is ; second i iOd to lid. The snpply of fresh butter 1 this week has not beeu quite so p^n- M tiful as last, and paces reuiiiu much tb>' | same for really good sample-). For good samples of salt butter in kegs lOd per lb is being given. Cheese still keeps in good request, and a Blight advance in price is perceptible. Best quality is worth 6tl to 9tl ; second quality, Od per lb. Si'le and rolled bacon is fetching 9d to lOd. Eggs are not quite so plentiful and may bequoted at Is 9<l per dor.