Commercial.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2684, 23 September 1871, Page 2

Commercial.

i amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption to-day, was £343 7s 7d. The grain market is quiet at last quotations. Wheat is offering rather sparingly, »ud the quantity of good milling quality that has changed hands during the week is not worthy of notice. A few second-class lots have been disposed of at prices from 4s 3d to 4s 9d. Oats are avcll supplied in feeding qualities; prime milling is rather scarce. Barley is rather better of sale. Flour continues to be enquired for only in trade lots; the millers are quoted at, Ll3 10s and Ll4. Bran is plentiful. Wheat, 5s 3d; second class, 4s to 4s 9d ; oats, 2s 2d to 2s 4d ; barley, feeding, 2s; malting, 3s 9d ; flour, Ll3 10s to Ll4; pollard, including bags, IA 10s; bran, including bags, L 3 15s; oatmeal, Ll4; pearl barley, Ll9 10s; potatoes, L 3; straw, L2 10s; hay, L 4 15s; chaff, L 4 10s ; turnips, L2; carrots, reports for the week ending Sept. 23.—Retail prices only : Fresh butter, in lumps, lOd per lb ; prints, Is ; fresh powdered and salted butter, Is per lb ; butter, in keg, very little demand, and the prices the same as. last quotation. Side and rolled bacon very plentiful, and stocks heavy; best quality, 9d to lOd per lb. Colonial hams, Is per lb ; English hams. Is 4tl per lb, and very unsaleable. Colonial cheese market quite glutted, and no improvement in the prices; good qualities, 6d to 8d per lb. Eggs are very plentiful, and in good demand at lOd to Is per dozen.