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Westport Times, Volume 1, Issue 144, 16 January 1868, Page 2

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Wkspout Times Office, January 15. The Customs' Revenue received this <luy for Import-Duties was A'3o 18 11 Gold Export-Duty, 468 11 8 £499 10 7

The Melbourne Leader of the 4ih instant reports of th eMi lbourno markets: —The import mai kets remain inactive, only a very moderate extent of business having been transacted to-day. Bread stud's are dull, but little demand being experienced, and ,£ls 10s is now quite a top quotation for Victorian country ilour ; a line of a hundred tons changed hands at a trifle over .£ls. Oats command no attention ; in maize, however, we le-im that a parcel of 3000 bushels met with a purchaser at aliguro sustaining our quotations of 4s Id to 4s 2d. A private telegram received in town from Sydney to-day runs as follows: " Prime maize, scarce, three shillings." Much business lias been doing in eornsacks ; holders, however, have found it necessary to reduce the price to 12s Gd, at which above eighty bales have been disposed of, The balance of the white pepper, ex Isabella Brown, about 15 tons, was resold to-day, at a lull figure withheld. We note sales of Brandon's candles at within a fraction of 12£ d. In teas, a line of medium of congous in halfchests was placed at Is 7d in hand. Plantation coffee has been moved off to the extent of 15 tons on private terms. Several private telegrms havo been received here to-day from Sydney, relative to the Panama news respecting kerosene, one of which is as follows: "Kerosene thirty-eight cents.; very dull; la-ged quantities reported." American resin having become entered in the hands of one or two holders, advanced rates are realisable. We are informed of a shipment having been pi iced to-day at about ±lB. In oilmen's stores a considerable portion of Gail Borden's condensed milk found a buyer at close on 15s. Liquids generally do not attract much attention. Bed wine has been quitted at £2l in bond. Teunent's bottled ale sells freely at 18s. Worlhington's Burton ale was placed at 9s 3d; Paisley whiskey, in bulk, has been disposed of at about ss.