COMMERCIAL.
Daily Times Office, Filday evening, the amount of Customs Revenue received to-day on goods entered for consumption was £96918s lid. A telegram received from Lyell states that tho United Alpine Company's return for four and a-half days' crushing was 221 oz of amalgam from 158 tons ef stone. - . ■::'■ A clearing sale was held on Thursday "By Mr Donald Stronach, on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, at the farm of Messrs T. and M. Henderson, Pebbly Brook, Moeraki. The attendance was large, and the bidding spirited throughout. The property excited considerable competition, and was bought in at £7155, but afterwards sold prirately to Messrs Ross Brothers at £8 per acre. The whole of. the stock and implements were cleared at satisfactory prices, draught' mares and geldings realising from £20 to £39; colts and fillies, from £7 10s to £19153; milch cows, £4 to £7 ss; heifers and steers, £2 5s to £2 83; calves, 363; lambs, 8s 6d; sheep, from 103 to 13s lOd.
CHRISTCHURCH CORN EXCHANGE.
Report for the week ending Friday evening-, the 28th inst. :— The market for all classes oJ grain continues exceedingly firm. ........ Wheat.—Good shipping lines of Tuscan wheat are worth from 4s 9d to 4s lOd per bushel (f.0.b.); other wheats, from ds" 7d to 4s 9d per bushel; second. quality wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 5d per bushel; chick and broken" wheat, 33 6d to 3a 9d per bushel, delivered in Christehurch. Oats.—Good milling samples are worth from 3s 4d to 2s fid per bushel; feed quality, 3s to 33 3d per bushel, delivered in Christehurch. Beans are worth from 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel, delivered in Christehurch. Barley.—Prime malting samples are worth" from is fid to 4s 7d per bushel; second quality malting, 33 6d 1;0359d per buehel. Of feed quality there is very littlo offering. Gras3 Seed.—Machine-dressed samples are worth from 4s 9d to 5s 3d per bushel (f.0.b.). The demand is very small at present. Farmers' parcels indif-ferently-dressed, from 4s 3d to 4s 6d per bushel; cocksfoot, 4sd to 4fd (f.0.b.). Potatoes.—A few salesinare takenplaco during the week at from 30s to 32s 6d per ton at country stations. Advice 3 from Australia report short crops from excessive drought, which will undoubtedly have a beneficial effect on this market.
Cheese and Butler.—The former is worth from 4Jd to 43d per lb, tho latter 9Jd per lb. ''
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 6307, 29 April 1882, Page 2
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402COMMERCIAL. Otago Daily Times, Issue 6307, 29 April 1882, Page 2
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