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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1051, 3 May 1865, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Tuesday evening. There were no export entries for gold passed at the Custom House to-day.

The customs revenue received on goods cleared for home consumption, was as follows :—Brandy, 271 gals, £163 Is 6d ; whisky, 73 gals, £43 18s 3d ; ram, 75 gals, £-15 ; geneva, 101 gals, £102 Is 11<1 ; wine, 127 gals, £25' 8s ; tea, 26521b5, £66 Gs ; tobacco, 9591b5, £119 17s 6d ; cigars, 12s 8d ; sugar, 14,5841b5, £60 lus 4d ; boots, £43 5s 5d ; drapery, £49 Is ud, making a total of £719 Bs.

Business has been quiet through this and the preceding day. Intelligence from Ilokitika, which has been anxiously awaited, is now to hand; but few orders have arrived, and in all probability shipments to the West Coast will not be very heavy just at present. Flour is going off in small parcels at about last quotations; some large lots have been offered for, but no considerable transactions have matured, holders being disinclined to accept a reduction. The sugar and tea market has been kept alive by a few small operations which have been effected at fair rates. The spirit market is firm, but without much doing; holders of Hennesay's and Martell's brandies ask 8s 9d; geneva is passing out of importers' hands at 13s to 14s. The auction sales have possessed no particular interest.

A correspondent at Ilokitika, under date April 27th, furnishes us. with the following quotations :—Live Stock—Of horses there is quite a glut, end in com.cquence of the total want of grass, and the prevailing high rate of fodder, prices rnle very low ; packers, L 6 to Lls ; hackneys, Lls to £25. Cattle—A mob of 500 having reached the Grey from Nelson, a considerable reduction 'has taken place, and for the first draft of 30 head, the highest bid obtained at auction was Lll, at which they were withdrawn. Sheep—The last sales were effected at L 2 per bead, but as supplies from Nelson are coming in more freely per steamer, and with the now low price of beef, a considerable reduction will no doubt take place. Flour —Adelaide, first brands, L 32 to L 34 ; second, L3O to L3l ; Chilian, L2B to L3O per ton. Sugars—Brown crystals, 52s to 54s ; white do, 54s to 5Gs per cwt. Porter— Blood's, 18a Gd to 19s per doz; Victoria Stores, 16s Gd to 17s. Ales—Victoria Store?. 17s to 17s 6d. Port wine, LlB to L2O per qr. Slierry, LIG to LlB per qr, Geneva—JDKZ, ■ 60s to G2s 6d per case. Whisky, 40s to 42s per case ; do, bulk, 20s to 21s per gallon, ! Brandy—llennessy's, in case, Css to C7s 6d ; do, in bulk, 24s to 253 per gal ; Martell's, in case, G3s to 65s ; do, in bulk, 23s to 24s per gal. Bacon—Sinclair's and Coey's, Is 3d to Is 4d per lb ; Colonial, lid to Is per lb. Hams—Sinclair's and Coc-y's, Is 5d to Is 6d ; Colonial, Is 2d to Is 3d ; beef, Gd to Gid. Butter—Cork, fine, 8d to 9d, slow sale; inferior, unsaleable. Oats--Cs Gd to 7s per bushel. Bran, 3s 9d to 43 per bushel. Chaff, L2B to L3O per ton. Potatoes, Ll4 to Lls.