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Otago Daily Times, Issue 8792, 30 April 1890, Page 2

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* r Daily Times Oilice, Tuisday eveuing. Tho amount ot cußtoma revenue collected to-day on gooda cleared for consumption waß £933 3a 8d; primage, £11 19b ld ;—total, /;9_5 2s 9d. s Tho number of bags of grain and produce received i at the Dunediu railway statious to-day was as c follows:— c Oats. Wheat. Barley. Potatoes Flour,bran. Total 3723 655 -10 231 205 1857 ( Messrs Balmer, Lawrio, and Co., iv their circular dated Calcutta, March 21, repoit:-"Jute goods: i During the fortnight about 1100/1200 bales of woolpicks have been dove ; thoy wero mostly all orders { by mail, being squatters' actual requirements, ns particulars accompanied each fow bales; 100/200 bates brnnbngs have been done at Ks. 21-0 0. In . corusneka, there has been no iuquiry. The general ' feeling of the market is (hat Hessians havo n rising tendency; plain D.W. gooda are steady, the trade demand absorbing tho productions for near delivery and keeping tiie marki-t steady at paf.or rates. For forwnrd, aouie sellers are willing to take 3 to 3 annas less thnn paper rates for 13. & C. bags. In twill goods tho market i. w e.-ik in nil positions, nud for " Open " ports from 5 per cent, to 8 per c-nt. umler association minimum is being net-opted, but for colonial and country goods Micro ia littlo or no probability of lower rates t.-om nil we can judge just now. Ton: The shipments of tea turtle past aeason IISS9-9ii) to your ports ii ns follows:-Melbourne, 3.021,7931b; Adelaidei, 3J9,79rit); Port I.vttelton, 300,(j571b; Sydney, SMMSIIb ; Auckla'-d, li)7,5011b; Port Chalmers, 133,93 lib; Brisbane, 12,4201b; other ports, 7-l,oSeib."