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Otago Daily Times, Issue 912, 22 November 1864, Page 4

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Daily Times Office, Monday Evening.

The total revenue received 10-day at Customs on poods passed for home consumption amounted to L 497 3s Id, the items bin;— Dotted beer, 1772 gils, LBB 12s; brandy, 253| sals, 1114 103 101; eau d« cologne, 18 gals, L 8 2s; geneva, 11G gals, L 52 12s 11 i; ,old loin, 17 gils, L 8 0s 4d; whisky, 138 pals. L 63 18s; wine, 133cfnls. 1,20 3; 21 ; tea, 5G60.0, L 34 G 8d; tobacco 70G!b L 52 19a ; drapery. LI 7^ 41 ; sundries, L4l 5- 10d.

Business has been done to a moderate extent for the interior, and for other provinc a ; but for local wants,purchases are being- mule sparingly. A further arrival of Foreign flu;, via Auckland, has checked operations in this article. The supply of Adelaide flour is still seamy, and the price remains as before. The auction marts have been quiet since the 17r.1i, and few or no standard goods have been placedithrough their medium.

The Lyltelton Times of the 19th instant, gives the following market repents:—

Messrs Burn ell. Bennett and Pprot held their sale on Thursday laat. The attendance was the most numerous since the yards have been opened, and the bidding, especially for cattle, the moat spirited the auctioneers have had.

The whole of the stock from Riccarton were cleared at the following: p'"i "OS : —

1 cow. 1.31 10s ; 1 do, L 24 : 1 do, L2l 10s; 1 do. L2O: 1 do, Ll9 ; 1 rio. 1.17 : 5 do, Lls 10i ; 1 do. Lit 10-; 2 do. 112 10 s .

10 heifers, Ll2 ; 1 do, LH 10a : 1 do. Llllos ; 1 do, L 9 9-i; 1 cow. Ll3 10s; 1 do, Ll6 10s — average, Lls 5^ per head. A pair of fat wethers brought 48s per head. Mr Nicholson, butcher, Cashel street, being the purchaser.

The bull Duke, by Belerophon, was sold for L 39; and the bull Cromwell, by Regicide, for LSI 10s. fa

60 head of cattle, principally younrr stock and poor quality, fetched an average of L 6 6s per head.

In horses.. Mr Hay's entire horse Prince Drought 1.95; and two or three hacks very moderate prices.

In sheep, 164 r-wfs, mixed ages, Vj c foria breed, and rather small framed, i tchel 27s each ; frur Cotswold rKms, aged, 52< G I e^"h ; and after the auction some of M .jor White's prizs rams wnre disposed of at Lls esch. A eoo:l many other deals were effected privately amongst the prize sheep which do not come withiu the province of the auctioneer to report.

Messrs J. Oilivifv arid Son report that—A.t the Agricultural Society's Ground, the day after thu shos", the sales hy auction of some of tl)p exhibited stock and other rat.t'e .attracted a numerous attendance. The following will tbnv? thu prices obtained : — Rr.ms and Etves.- 2 pure Nrpretti ewes, LI 5 each; 2 Spanish ewes, U3 eac'i; 2 pens of 5 rams each, nut of itnpnried ewes, by Spanish ranis, 14 15s each; 1 pen of 5 rams, exactly the samr, 12 e'ch ; 1 pen of six rnms>, same as )a«t,, L 5 ea^b ; 1 pf;i of 5 rams (took first, prize on ■WVilaesdav), L 5 10- each; 1 pen of 6 rains, part of the original Muunt Eden fl ;ck, L 4 10a each; 1 pen of rams, by Mount Kdeniramß, IMPORTANT SALE of THE

out of choice c lonial ewe-, L 2 10- each ; 1 mi of 12 rams, same as las', L 2 eacli ; 1 pen of 12 rams, the same, LI Ids each. Cattl*- 9 cows, medium, from 1 10 to 1.15 10s ea«h ; 2 cows, in fcrior. L 7 ai-d L 9 respectively; 13 hi-ail of cattln, mixed, cliiiflv young stuck at L7ss a hei'.'<; 14 head of do (7 steers and 7 heifer.-) LS a bead ; 4 steers, 111 each ; 2 cows, with heil'-r calf and bull calf, 1,^5 the lot; bull. 18 10-; bull calf 1.3 5a ; pair of wirkiusf bullock-, 1.45. H uses —We also had a number of superior horsps fb" salf, but owing to our time beinir limi ed (llure being two O'her auciion sales to follow ourt) we did not put tliese up to competition. Mr W. 11. Barna-d reports the sale of the following stock at th* yards of t-e Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association on tl;<17th usrant. Seventeen un'roken colts and fillies, realisfd from L 8 to L 32 10s each. One pair of unbroken cart colt?, LO7 10s. One bay mare and foal, LSI."