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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 418, 17 September 1868, Page 2

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Guky River Argus Office, Wednesday evening. The amount of revenue received at the Custom House on goods passed for home consumption on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 15 and 16, was £294 11s 7d. The items were as follows : — September 15.

Melbourne — The Argun, of the Bth inst, reports : — Business in the import markets presents no signs of improvement, no transactions of any consequence having been reported throughout the clay. In breadstuff's the demand for flour is strictly limited to the disposal of small lots for trade purposes, at Ll7 10s ; for quantities Ll7 continues still to be asked, though we understand that for about a hundred tons (sold in two lines) 5s less was accepted In ieeding grains we note somewhat less doing. In oats very little inquiry has been experienced, and quotations remain at last week's closing rates of 3? 8d for New Zealand, and 3s lid to 4s for Tasminian. A parcel of De Roubaix's candles vas placed at lOJd. Malt continues to improve in value, and a shipment of about 1600 bushels, to land, was tfiken up at equal to 10s 9d. We hear of an invoice of 125 tons of bar and rod iron having changed hands on terms withheld. There is not much doing privately in sugar ; rations have been sold at L 26. The sound portion of the Are-en-Ciel's cargo of Bourbon sugars will be offered for public sale to-morrow. New teas are getting more into favor, there being now much less difference between buyers and sellers than existed a short time ago. A line of 100 half-chests was disposed of, ex Tekli, at 2s. Two lines of ordinary congous were also placed, ex Isabella Brown, at satisfactory figures. The unsold balance of the Mobile's cargo was under offer, and expected to be closed for ; but owing to the arrival of the Fromm, Coryphaus, and Katarina Maria, with tea cargoes since Saturday] this transaction could not be carried through. Messrs Towns and Co's portion of the Fromm's cargo will be offered by auction on Wednesday. Since the sale of a large line of JDK Z geneva, full strength and contents, there has been a considerable demand for tweuty-bottle case shipments, as .this description of package is getting very much into favoi\

TOST OFFICE NOTICE. MAILS CLOSE. For Westport, per s.s. Beautiful Star, this day, at 9 a.m. For Nelson, Wellington, and Auckland, per s.s. Auckland, this day, at noon. For Ahaura, every Thursday, at 4.30 p.m, For Rutherglen, every Tuesday. For Brighton. St.- Kilda, Charleston, and Westport,' every Wednesday, at 4.30 p.m, For Hokitika and Paroa, daily. For Cobden, Brimncrton, and Twelve Mile Landing, every Tuesday and Friday, at 9 a.m. For Christchuroh, every Sunday and Wednesday, at 4.30 p.m. Money orders must be procured and letters registered one hour previous to the closing of the mail by whioh it is intended to transmit them. In future, the Post Office will be open to the public, for the transaction of Money Order and Savings Bank business, on ordinary clays from 9 o'ykck a.m. to 4 o'clock p.m., and on Saturdays, and on the day previously to the olosing of tha Mails for the United Kingdom, from 9 o'clock a,m. to 5 o'clock Pi m. Lettern for sea borne mails will be forwarded if posted within forty minutes after the advertised time for closing the mails, sucji letter* to bear a late fee of 6d, in addition to the postage, the whole to be affixed n postage stamps. MAILS ARRIVE From Hokitika and Paroa, daily. From Rutherglen; every Wednesday. From Cobden, Brunnerton, and Twelve Mile Landing, every Wednesday and Saturday, From Ahaura, every Saturday. From Brighton, St. Kilda, Charleston, and Westport, every Tuesday. From Christchurch, every Monday and Thursday. J. M'BETH, Postmaster.

Whisky - - - £51 2 8 Rum - - - 40 19 7 Wine - ■ - - 13 7 3 Tea - • - - 5 0 0 Tobacco ■ - - 48 7 6 Beer - - - ■ 16 12 6 Other goods ■ - 23 12 8 £199 2 2 September 16. Brandy - - - £49 4 0 ftttm - - - 19 0 5 Wine - - - ■ 5 9 7 Beer - - - - 17 10 0 Drapery - - - 45 5 £95 9 5