COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 9721, 1 June 1895, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The amount of revenue collected at the On.st<mi-h')us>j on goods cleared to-day for confcumptiomvas XSIO 8i Id. -. ' Business generally in'the import market h;s been rather quiet for the first week of the Month Sugars are steady, and finest ■ whites bring in trade lets £22 to £22 1(L>: greys, £2l to £'i \W< In dried fruits currants sell freely from 3|if- s-ii-tanas, 5d to Cid; elemes, same price. Kerosene has seasonable demand, prices ruling about Is srt to Is bd according to quantity. Tinned fish of all kinds is quiet. Dressed Japan, rice moves off at £l9up; Patua £lB 10s to £l9. The market is bare of a number of lines-among others'.beina V.H. cocoa, Colman's starch and mustard, Bryan? and Mays vestas, etc., but we'understand the Kangatira, from London (now close at hand) brings fair supplies. The usual trade is passing m spirits and beers. Coarse castor oil is short and brings 2s 7d. ' : ' • F™ 2 ? } he Opinions expressed, by. gentlemen interested in agriculture it. would appear that for th.e next three years wb,eat should bring a good

or farmeft decidinglast year not to gwTOeaton account of the toy prices.-' Taieri.ldvocate/ THE LABOR MARKET. :J Mr Skene,reports:—"May has closed»«HH. . more hopeful tone for country worker! There it nothing,to boast; of but still there IsatliK more confident feeling. Workers in townSSS many others) have simply a struggle for existeno« No money aud a rising loaf don't look bright "