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Giiey BivKit Argus Office, Friday evening. The amount of revenue received at the Customs on goods cleared for home consump, tion on Thursday and Friday, was as fol. lows:— Thursday, December 27, £41 10s ; Friday, December 28, £45Gs4d. Export entries were passed at the Customs to-day on GOOOoz gold, for shipment per Claud Hamilton, to Wellington, the duty on which mounted to £750. CnniSTCiiUßUir.— The Lyttelton Times of the 22nd instant reports as as follows : - The past week has been a very quiet one in trade, and even the extra demand' which generally arises for Christmas has had but little enlivening effect upon our markets. It is, perhaps, a healthy sign that our traders are lying in their stocks with great caution, but the absence of demand also indicates a. great falling off in the consumption. Even the demand for dried fruits, such as h'gs, raisins, currants, &c, is exceedingly moderate, and by no means equal to our usual trade. East India pale ale, in bulk, is very scarce, and the holders of a parcel of Joule's pale ale found a ready sale for it, at high prices. Fencing wire is not in such active enquiry as it avas last month, but stocks are greatly reduced, and prices are firm ; Nos, (i, 7, and 8 are almost out of stock. There is but little change in prices. Stocks arc full of almost every description of merchandise, and the Glenmark, which ai rived on the 20!h instant, after a long passage, will bring more ! • than sufficient for our wants for some time to j come. The Mermaid is also due, and may be expected daily. Messrs Morton and Robinson, of the Dunedin Club Hotel, called a meeting of their creditors during the week, when it was arranged to assign the estate to trustees. With this exception credit has been sound. The money market is unchanged, and discounts are fairly easy. The exchanges arc ihe same as last week. The demand for fat .rattle is not so good as it has been, owing to the large- number of beasts

now growing into, beef in . the paddocks. Really prime fat cattle are worth 60s, but the tendency is towards low prices. Good stores move off readily at fair rates, Mixed mobs, from two years and upwards, would realise about LlO 10s. There is a great^ demand for young stock, which command firstclass prices. The demand for fat wethers is easier, in consequence of recent importations into Wostland from Australia. A little life has been infused into the grain market by the arrival of some parcels of this year's oats. Transactions in them, however, have not been large as yet, for buyers are able to Avait longer. "The sales effected may be quoted at 3s per bushel. Flour maintains its former price of LI 5 per ton— best Canterbury, and wheat is firm at 4s a bushel. _ The old rates for bran and sharps prevail, viz., L 6 and L 7 per ton, respectively, and hay may be quoted at L 4 10s per ton.