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Otago Daily Times, Issue 4166, 25 June 1875, Page 2

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Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. ! The amount of Customs Revenue received to-day oi | .roods entered for consumption was as follows: — £ s. d. £ s. d. Brandy .. 100 19 2 Tobacco .. 103 17 (i Whisky .. 117 9 0 Tea .. .. 50 10 0 Col. do. .. 45 14 5 Sugar .. ~ 4S 511 Rum .. .. 19 SlO Drapery .. 39 6 0 Gin .. .. 49 17 6 Suudries .. 13S IS G Wine .. .. 33 4 S Total .. £750 11 li Jlessrs Maclean Brothers report for week ending 24th June, as follows :— Fat Cattle.—lso head average quality were yarded yesteroay, and all taken by the trade. Bidding", bowever, was not so spirited as at recent sales, and prices for prime quality were a shade easier, SOs per lOOlbs being the extreme value obtained. At the yards, we sold tiO head at from £8 fls to £12 10s far bullocks.'and from £t< 2s (M to £§ Vis gd for wivs, one very superior cow of jfr Georifc Niehol's mob fetching £13 lis Od. Privately, we have placed 30 head at quotations, and delivered 50 head. Fat Calves.—A few only were penned, some of whicli we sold at from SOs to GOs each. Fat Sheep.—About 2000 were penned yesterday, fair to ;ood qua ity, but only about 1000 were disposed of at barely equal to late quotations. Prime cross-breds brought from 13s (3d to 17s each; merinos, 7s (id to 10s tid, or equal to 3Jd for the former and 3d for the latter —perlb. Store Cattle.—We have no transactions to report, but would draw attention to our sale at West Taieri on 29th inst., when we will offer a lot of choice grown bullocks and spayed cows. Store Sheep.—No transactions have transpired during the week, but we note a continuance of the demand ior young sheep for the South. At this season, however, it is scarcely probable that any sales of importance vrill be effected, holders being averse to meddle with their flocks thus late in the year. Quotations are nominally the same as at date of our last. Wool.— Latest advices from the Home market confirm previous reports as to the upward tendaney of prices at the May sales. In this market tliere is no business doing. Sheepskins.—We had only a small quantity for offer at our sale to-day, but bidding waa spirited, ai_d full prices were obtained. Butchers' green skins fetched from 3s 4d to 4s Id, for cross-breds, and 2s Sd to 2s 10d for merinos. Hides continue in excellent reouest for export, but local tanners are not operating so freely as some weeks ago. To-day we disposed of 90 light to good medium weights, at ISs to 25s each; calfskins at 2s 9d tj 3s each. Tallow.— Good parcels, for shipment, are salcabte affair rates, but mixed and inferior, suitable ouly for local consumption, are exceedingly dull of sale, soap boilers having for the time full supplies on hand. Giain.—This market is without material alteration either as regards values or demand. Prime samples of wheat are held for 4s Ud per bushel; ordinary, 4s to 4s 3d, ftith comparatively little busines doing. Oats are in slighily better favour, but without any absolute improvement iv prices—good feeding being worth 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; milling, up to 3s. In barley, few transactions have come to light during the week : quotations, nominally, 5s 6d to 5s 9d for prime malting ; .5s to 5s 3d for ordinary ; inferior, 4s 6d per bushel. Wellington, June 24th. At auction sales to-day sugar fetched £33 per ton ; tea, 19s 6d per box ; haif-chests (duty paid), ls lid per lb ; soda. 9s 6d ; sauces, 3s 4d per doz. : brandy, £2 7s to £2 9s per doz. ; butter, ls to ls 5d per lb" ; fruit 2d to 3id.