COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11302, 21 December 1898, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

ibaily, Times Office,V Tuesday evening.

; The amount of revenue received at the custom [house, to^ay on'goods cleared-for cdn?«mptioh ;wa--£2oo9:fs,ild.yV:lV 'VvVV'-V:Vv ZZ-'ZZ

SOUTHLAND MARKETS. (FbOM OUB OWN COKHF,srONDENT ) INVERCARGILL. December 20 The,wli,o!vt. market hero remains unchanged, as there _ra'_>_K_c_.l_ no buyeis, aRd sellers haveVto .offer. -their.iVwheat'iat'." very .tempting ,'prices to-,quitHt:V':'"Velvet''is?wbrth':6bout;33 3d; (Tuscan;>3s; 2d; !and-!red .sorts,-'B'b, f.o.b,', coim--try .sidings—but'this -isVonly -foi',very' prime icjuality. ■ During the weekVth.er,e"' has' been no •improvement to note in .the oat market. /Prices ..h'av.e.iuled-miichitho'.sairia' as previous .reports, ithough sales have'been» made, more .through '.steady' forcing by local merchants, thahthe re,sult;of outside demaDd.'V.VWestern . Australia ;and "Victoria at'the morjient; absorb .a ;sniall; isupply, though the demandVfrom. New South' ■Wales has'eased off, p*rtly :'on ficconht of the ■large quantity held in Sydney—sdme 20,000 to' "22,000 sacks—and partly on aceouht'of large con'sighments -..which anxious.holders in' New* Ze-aland-continue to pouV; intb'that V city... The prices paid' to farmers at -sidings are'from Is 7d to.ls'Bd, equal "to present; quotations, f.0.b., of ls.9Jd,to ls.lOJd. ,'Ttfis not-anticipated in view bf the fact that 35,000 sacks are .held in the Blufl_ stores -that higher-pricag .will rule, unlessVan'abnormal.demand, sets; in !fr6m ,Ausnaiia.■■: ~y:;,y; ,": v;1/

: At' the Wallticetown-yards-the' fat cattle entries ; _otalled\l2l:"a, large';number, of 'which: were passed in_\ The market* was not Satisfactory to sellers, and prices did not range above £1 per lOOlbyHeavy-weights,'£7'l7s 6d.tb'£B 15s j.Vmedium weights, '£6. ss.to. £7 10s; light -weights,-',£4''.2s !6d>,to'^£3 ,;12s'.;6d;, cows, fat,- £3 23 6d to ,£5:153;",' SKeep.^-300. fat and stores 'were entered, and~-prices! reiria_n::ipiclia,nged. ~