COMMERCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1875, 28 October 1887, Page 19

COMMERCIAL.

The xeyenne collected at the Custom House for the past week on goods cleared for consumption amounted to £6116; 13s 2d. The beer duty syuouuted to £170 Is 7d, and the gold duty to i-i 2s.

Millers' Hues have ruled during the week as follows .-—Flour, £0 10s to £10 per ton; oatmeal, £8 10s per ton ; pearl barley, £1S per ton ; pollard, £4 per ton ; chaff, £2 5s to £2 15s per ton ; bran, £2 15s per tou. At a sale by Messrs J. Kennedy Macdoimld and Co., Wellington, of the Porotawhao block, opened up by the Wellington and Manawatu railway, 18 sections, containing 1371 acres, realised £5211 9s 6d, or an average of £3 lGs per acre.

A gentleman eugaged in agriculture iv this district has paid a visit to the centres of business both

north and south of Oamaru for the purpose of making inquiries, for his own satisfaction, as to the true state of the wheat market. He returned to Oamaru fully convinced that there is very little really good wheat held by the millers and merchants. He found evidences of an abundance of indifferent sorts, and, juJging from these circumstances, he says that for good wheat a substantial advance may be contidently expected at no distant date.— Oamaru Mail. Mr H. M. Driver, on behalf of the Mutual Agency Company, held a sale of horses at Balclutha, when about 50 horses, consisting of draughts and good saddle and light harness horses, wereoffered. There was a good attendance, not only of local buyers, but also several from Dunedin and Taieri, and good prices were realised. Good draughts brought trom £U to £20 ; medium do, £8 to £13 ; hacks brought from £6 to £13, and spring cart horses £9 to £12.