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Evening Star, Issue 4954, 18 January 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The amount <s*f - revenue received at the Custom House on goods cleared this day for consumption was L 377 Ss 84. - Business has been. active; during the week. JThe arriva’of the Araelie and the Loweswater from Calcutta has supplied the market with corasacks, castorodl, and rice. Parcels of comsacks have been placed at Bs, and coarse castor oil at 4a 4d. Some business Ins been done in tba and sugar; good yellow sugars are in demand at L 32, in bond; greys are abundant arid do not command more than L33to L 34 Kerosene c»ntinuea dull, Devoe’s being offered as low as IS Igd. Herinessy’s case is more inquired for, and as stocks are light the advance in Melbourne to 35s is likely to improve ; prices here we quote at 82s 6d, Butter is again better this month, prime samples fetching lOd; cheese wc quote at 7Jd to Bd. Mr Montagu Pym reports having sold to-day part of section 81, block 14, bn which stands a ten-roomed house, in Moray place, for Ll ; 500. Also forty-five sections in the township of Baynew, at prices ranging froin LlO up to H9B. [Br Tblbqeaph.] London, January 17.—New Zealand five per cent debentures are at 10L Flour is Is 6d lower.