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Southland Times, Issue 3319, 8 February 1879, Page 2

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-" TIMBB OfficKiFridayJSvening. The amount of ■Customs revenue received to day- on goods entered for consumption was as follows:— - - - %", s - --/ £ ,s. a. , Spirits ... * ... ... 53 19 10 ' Sugar 54 14 1 Tel ... 11 o 0 :i^T Sundries ... 17." 7 7' " --, . - -- > £137- 6 6,

Business during the week has been dull. Stocks of breadstuffs are large and values unchanged. Hour goes into trader's* hands at £10 108; for a large line a shade -under would be accepted. With, regard to wheat there is very little of any good in the market, from 3s lOd to 4s being the best price offered for good milling. There is no scarcity of inferior sorts. Fowl feed is quoted at from 2s 9d to 3s ; bran is £5 and pollard £6 10s; the market fairly supplied with both. Oats range from 3s 6d to 3s Bd, according to quality, but they are by no means in excess, excepting inferior parcels, which are very difficult to quit. Chaff is £6 10s, and oatmeal £20. In imported goods transactions show that best brands in stout and ales are worth 12s and 12s 6d ; Hennessy's case brandy, 35s 6d ; do bulk, 10s 9d; and Dunville's whiskey, 20s, in bond (case). Currants, 4d; raisins,|6d ; and figs 7d per Ib. Cornsacks, in large supply, are only worth 9s 9d to 10s, and woolpacks command 3s 9d. There is no item of interchange in short supply, but the market is fairly stocked generally.