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Otago Daily Times, Issue 4172, 2 July 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Tunes Office, Thursday evening. The amount of Customs Revenue received to-day on goods entered for consumption was an follows:— • £ s. <L Drapery 89 IS 9 Sundries .. .. .. 119 19 0 Total .. .. £189 12 9 Maclejw Brothers report for tha week ending Ist July, as follows : —

Fat Cattle.—The supply forward for yesterday's market was very mea?rft, comprising only 80 head, of very ordinary quality, all of which were sold at fully last week's rate3 —or, my, 3fls to 32* Cd per lOOlbs, for prime beef; inferior ai:d medium, 25s to 27s 6d. Bullocks realised from £7 10a to. £13; cows, £6 10a per head. , Fat Cakes.—About 20 good quality were penned, which fetched from 16s to 603, according to weight and condition. Fat Sheep.—l2oo were penned—all Rood quality— but as the trade has been largely snpplied during the weak by private delivery, there was but a weak demand, and, only about 700 found buyers, at prices ranging from l(Js to 21s. We quo c prime cross-bred mutton at B|d to id per 1b; merino do, at 3d to, 3Jd Store Cattle.—The demand for well grown cattle continues active, but transactions are limited in extent. At West Tate'ri, on Tuesday last, we sold6o head jood stores at from £410s to £6 17s 6d per head for spayed cows and bullocks. ■ Store Sheep are atill in excellent request, and would command fully late quotations, but there are very few. offering, and we have no transactions to report. '■ Wool.—Cablegrams from London, under date 19th June, are as follow* :~The wool sales, after a course of remarkable steadiness, closed siightly weaker. 271,272 bales were catalogued; 130,000 were taken for export; Advance eatoblieljed on March rates as follows:—Superior washed floece, lid to id; ordinary, Id; scoured, Id to lid; greasy merino, Jd to Id; half-bred (jreasy, Id to lid; coarse wools attracted special attention, and lamb'j wool commanded extreme Bheepskins.—Our sale to-day was well attended, and competition unusually brisk, and last week's rates wero fully maintained—say, merino fresh skins, 2s 9d .to-38,64; cross-bred do, 3a 9d to 4a 0d; dry..skins,:at from IS 3d to 4s Cd, according to quality.. Hides.—Sound wot salted hides, more especially heavy weights, continue in excellent demand. At auction to-day we disposed of 120 medium to heavy, from 21s to 26s ttd each. Tallow is very dull of sale. None offered for public Bale, . Grain.—The market, for all descriptions, is exceed Jngly quiet, and very little has changed hands during the week. Wheat is nominally quoted at 4a i& to 4s 3d, for good, to 4s 6d for superior samples; inferior, for fowls' feed, is in request at 3s 8d to 3s 9d. Prime waiting barley is worth 5s 6d to 5s 9d ; good ordinary, 6s to 5s 3d; inferior, 4s 4d to 4s fld, and in request for milling. , Oats are without change,-holders being firm in their demands for prices which leave littlo or no margin for speculation. We quote good feeding at 2s 9d to 2s lOd ; milling, up to 3s.