Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3766, 19 March 1875, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Custombouse on goods cleared for consumption this day was L 1.185 ISs Bd. Fredk. H. Evans reports sales of Colonial Bank ■hazes at 20s and Sos{6a, 25s paid up. Mr D.. M. Spedding, on behalf of Messrs T. Bobinsom and Co., offered for sale yesterday the lease for twenty-one years ot several sections in Princes street south. Lot 1, with 50 links frontage to Princes street, by a frontage to Manor street of U3-6 links; lota 2 and 3, each 50 links frontage to Princes street, were all knocked down at 42s per foot frontage, and lots 4ands, each 50 links frontage to Princes street, adjoining the Globe Hotel, at 31s pec foot frontage. For good samples of wheat, for present requirements, millers are, we believe, open to purchase at Se 6d. It appears, however, questionable whether this rate will be obtained, as we learn that two firms in Christchurch have each purchased 100,000 bushels at 3s, and a redaction to 2s 9d is spoken of Bs probable in that market. Oats in Oamarn are quoted at 2s 3d.—* N. O. limes.' A. Mercer reports for tho week ending 19th March, retail prices only; —Fresh butter, in half and one pound prints. Is 6d to Is 7d per lb; fresh butter, Mumps, la 5d to Is 6d per Ih; powdered and salt butter. Is 6d. The market still keeps pretty well supplied, but there is a good demand t and a slight advance in the price has taken place this week. Salt butter in kegs, Is 6d per lb. Cheese, best quality, lOd to Is per lb. Side and rolled bacon in good demand. Is 2d to Is 3d per lb; colonial hams, la 4d; English hams. Is 6d to la 8d; eggs are again scarce, and retailing at 2s 3d per dozen. [Bt Telegraph.] Melbourne, March 12.— Five thousand cases of kerosene (Devoe’s) were sold at Is 2d; diamond, Is Id. Bread stuffs unchanged. A large sale of congous and fancy teas took place at good prices. A London telegram states that kerosene has risen in New York 4d per gallon. A cargo of sugar, &c., per Aunabella, from Mauritius, realised from L 29 10a to L 30155. Auckland, March 18.—Our Aucklanl correspondent telegraphs as follows:—" The ‘ S. M. Herald’ having stated that, in consequence of t tie 0 f the New Zealand loan, the Bank of New Zealand ought to have cash enough in its coffers without disturbing the Australian money market, Mr Murdock, the Bank’s inspector, addressed the following letter to that journal * In your commercial article to-day, allusion is made to the disturbance of rates for money through the action of the Bank of New Zealand, which, it is infmed, results from a desire to attract capital from this to a neighboring Colony Theposition assumed by the Bank of New Zealand in Melbourne has been forced upon it by the course adopted in New Zealand by one of the foreign Ttnnkn djing business there. The rates offered for deposits in Melbourne, and which will be offered here as soon as the Bank is represented by its own branch, are those now current in New Zealand, and publicly advertised there by at Jeast two foreign hanko, ft la with no desire to acquire deposits at present high rates that the Bank of New Zealand has caused the recent disturbance in the Australian money market, but solely as a retributive measure in selfdefence, and after unsuccessful endeavors to bring about a better understanding between the Pn-nVa re , presented in New Zealand.'" Mr O’Shea reports flour Lll to Lll 10s, best brands. Oats, 3s 7dj new, 3s lOd. Old maize, 6s 6d. Pototoes, 120s. Hams, la 2d. Bacon, Is Id. Cheese,