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Otago Daily Times, Issue 9130, 1 June 1891, Page 1

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Dally Times Office, Saturday evening. The amount of oustoms revenue collected to-day on goods for consumption amounted to £292 12a 4d. During the past week £6104 17b 8d was collected on goods cleared for consumption, and £158 2a 7d as baer duty:' The revenue collected at the custom house during the month of May on goods cleared for consumption amounted to £i9,8Q6 3s ld, and the beer duty to £892 8s 9d. * Busineßa in .the import market has not Bhown many signs of revival during the week. Purchases for next ;month's account have given a little spurt to trade, but apart from this trade is quiet, more particularly in town ; the country demand la more animated. Values of goods have altered but little during the week. Dried fruits ar<* in fair request and sales are pasting at up to 5d per lb for currants, 8d to BJd perlb for sultanaa, 7d per lb for Elemea, and at 6d per lb for Valenciaa. In fish there is alao a little doing. American salmon secureß 7s 6d per dozen for ordinary good olass brands. Cocktail, the leading favourite in the market, commands 9b 3d per dozen in trade lots. Lobsters are very acarce. Oysters are taken up at 6s per dozen, Ling fish sells fairly well at 4jd per lb. Bice moves off steadily for requirements, but the market ia not very ttrong. Patna is selling at £13 10s per ton (in bond), and dressed Japan at £2110s and £22 per ton (duty paid) according to quality. There ia a fair amount of business passing in sugars, and although there ie good choice of kinds, stocks of the beßt qualities are light. Best Mauritius whites are taken up at £20 to £26 10a per ton (duty paid). New Zealand Cornpay's finest sella at £27 to £27 10a per ton; greys and good whites go Into consumption at £25 10a to £26 per ton. Teaa are moving off a little more freely, the demand running mostly on Indian'and blended teas. In iron and hardware lines business la only middling, but valuesof iron and wire are a shade firmer. Galvanised iron iB selling in trade lots at up to £22 10a per ton, usual extras. Number 8 fencing wire ia low in etock, and commands £13 10s per ton. Cement, In consequence of further aupplleß reaching the market, ia weaker. aud oan be purchased In paroela at IBa, and in small lots at 19s per barrel. Raw and boiled Unseed oIIb move off at 3a 8d and 3s 9d per gallon, and colza oil at 4s 3d per gatlon. Castor oil iB weak at ?a 3d to 3s 4d per gallon.' Kerosene sells pretty Bteadily, but prloes do not improve. Snail lots of high-teat oils are taken up at Is 6d per gallon, but ln quantity they are freely obtainable at less meney. Nelson hops are hardening with the reduotlon in ttooks, through shipments to Australia, Prime samples are quoted Is to Is ld per lb f.o.b, Oornsaoka are very flrm at 5i 83 por dO?en, .Millers' line; have ruled dialog the

week as follows:-Flour, £11 5s to £11 15s per ton; oatmeal, £8 10s to £9 per ton; ohaff, 40s to 45s per ton; bran. £3 10s per ton; pollard, £1 10s per ton; pearl barley, £13 to £13 10s per ton. Tne Woodlands Dairy Faotory Company had a satisfactory report of cheese sold in Glasgow, by Messrs John M'Nalrn and Co., shipped by the Dorio. The total quantity ahipped was about 9} tons. Thirty oases of cboese, Dunlop shape, realised 66a per owt, and 134 oases, Cheddar Bhape, realised 68a per owt, and the salesmen reporfc fche cheese to be of exceedingly good quality. The net result at the factory is 4fd per lb. A small quantity shipped by* the Fifeshire, and Bold in London, realised 56s per owt, but the net result was Jd per lb less than the j Glasgow aales. Mesßrs J. M'Nairn and Co. exnecfc that a higher price will ba got for the succeeding conslcnnient. The Glasgow consignment would have turned out even more satisfactorily than the Londou one, became of tbe Dunlop ahaped cheese being in the ono shipment and not in tho other.—Southland News. ~ . Mesars H. W. Peabody and Co., reporting under ] date New York, April 25, atate that tiie keroiene market has tended downward, and they quote HOdeg oil in IO.OOU-oaae lots Do per gal. Rosins are unohanged, wlththe exception ofthe highest grades, j whioh have declined in price. The turpentine market fell off to 43c during tho month, but reacted : to 44J0, that being the present price. Lobsters are ' still high, best branda being quoted at 2dol 100 per dozen. The packing teason will soon commence, when prices Bhould deollne. Vessels continue cheap, and freight ratea accordingly remain very low. Hew Zealand rate, 170 to 180. i

FOBT OFFICE NOTICES. Malls olose at, tha Ohief Port Offloe, Dunedin (aubjtoi to auy ueoossary alterations) aa under : - For Northern Porta, overland, dally at 10.30 a.m., 0.V.0. Lato letters, mail van. North train, at 11 a.ro. This Dat (Monday), Junb l. For Lyttelton and Ctirhloliurch. per Penguin, at 2.20 p.m. Late letterß CP. 0., at 2.30 p.m. Wbdnhsdat, Junk 3. For Lyttelton, Christchurch, Northern ports of New Zealaud, and Sydney, por Rotomahana. at 1.60 pm. Late letters, Port train, at 2.30 p.m. Letters for Sydney must be specially addressed. Thursday, Junb 4. For Southland, Australian Colonies (via Hobart), India, China, Japan, Continent of Kurope, United Kingdom, &a., per Te Anau, at 1.50 p.m. Money orders (for Australian colonies only), registered letters, and newspapers, at 12.50 p.m. Letters for the United Kingdom must be speoially addressed, and paid fld per joz. Parcel po*t. mails for the Australian Colonies (except New nouth Wales and Queensland) will olose at 11.60 a.m. Saturday Junb 6, For Brisbane direot, por Janet Nicoll, about 6th June. Wednesday, Junk 10. The contract ateamer InvercargiU will leave Inveroargill for Coal Island and Milford Sound on Thursday, llth June. Mails olose at this office on Wednesday, 10th,at3.50 pm. Notice.-Ou and after the 6th lost., Saturday hours to be observed at the money order and savings bank branoh of this oflloe will be from 9 a m. to 1 p.m.. and from 7 to 8.30 p.m. for receipt of deposits and the opening of new accounts only. (Signed) BDW. D. BUTTS, Chief Postmaster, Chief Post Office, Dunedin, May 29,1891.