COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 917, 31 August 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wkst Coast Times Office, Saturday Evening. The amount of import duty collected at the Custom House to-day wna £"J6 5s lOd. The following list of merchandise cleared shows its distribution : —

Representing 2000ozs. cleared at the Custom House.

Although the entrance to the river continues all but closed, we have to note some improvement in business for the week. Tho country storekeepers, who are last running out of stocV, have been more iv the market, and traasaclions, though not extensive, have been sufficiently so, to tln'ow more anunat-'on into business thau we could note for some weeks pas!. Imporl3 have been, under tho circumstances, on a most limited scale. The much des'red addition to stocks aro still held by (lie ilect in the roaditcad. The very desirable attempt to open a new entrance to the river through the ba? is being prosecuted with vigour, and we trust no eQbrls will bo spared to make it a decided suctes?, and an impetus given to business, so desii-able to all interested in the progress oftljs West Coast.

Stocks of all k^nd3 are beiug very much reduced, and yet we have to report scarcely any improvement in values from actual transactions. , When we note that all tlje principle staples are fii-m, we can sea-cely go farther.

Flour is not yet beyond our last quotations of £9,7, £28 i'ov best Adclride, V ovincial £23, a good margin 00. intei'-p'oviuc-al quotations, could prompt dclive 1 v be calculated upon. SLocks now held have been put iato store at a pries not evea now over remunerative. Potatoes, oa s, bian, and chaT a"o improving in vauie. P/ovis'oos D'*e receiving more a-lunt'oa. nod ia no 'jsts'Jce coa we note a dec'iae. Sioe'.s of b aady rvo rui^uiog ve^ low; bo}\ ».od eo;e oC jcput<»d b a-«ds aie firmly he l d. No t •jrisactlo:>s, however, have couie uncle.' our uoL'co du-vig Jio week, showiug a bMiei." pr'ce to have been realised. Geneva >'s ve\v scarce; tho least favoured brands recli^jg 235.

Collecled at Customs fov homo consumption during the week, £1205 2s lid.

G. W. BrN>*r.v reports for tho week : — Ex Horou, from Uobart Town — Fow 1 ?, 8^ 3d per pair ; duck. , lls 9d per par; cg£s, 23 Id per doz ; carrots, £7 5s per ton ; onions, ,IMI 2s per lou; bottled herbs, los per do/,; pumpk'us, <ts do; apple?, 37s Gd per case; pigs (average), 37b (id eaoh ; (privately) Cbristdiir-eh butter, Is Id per lb ; Melbourne do, Is 2d do ; niaccaroni, is do ; Lewis' condensed milk, 15s per doz; American brooms (3 de), 226 6d do; green peas, 2d peril); also, bale of household furniture, realising fair prices.

Jrancly £31 11 2 /Pine 11 6 5 )rapery 22 6 1 ifcationery 019 3 Jlasa 0 2 11 £66 5 10 DciT ox Exports. Jold £250 0 0