COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume V, Issue 587, 6 May 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected on Thursday was as follows:

The Customs revenue collected on Friday was as follows : -C ad

The laud sold at the Waste Lands Board on May Ist, 2nd, and 3rd realised the sum of of £27,710, and is situated in the following districts:—

An ordinary amount of business has been transacted in the grain market during the past week, with little alteration in prices. For wheat, a fair demand exists for milling, hut prices are inclined to be easier, partly through most millers having fair stocks in hand, ami exporters are now only oil'eriug -Is at the outside for prime samples, English prices being very weak. Oats have been otlered freely at 1s Bcl to Is 9d, and stocks in dealers’ hands continue to accumulate, without improved enquiry. Malting bailey commands a fair figure, inferior quality quite unsaleable. Some millers have again advanced their quotations for flour to £ll in sacks, but we notice one large miller advertises flour at £lO 10s; and this must have the effect of reducing prices to that level. Potatoes are now fairly in the market, and some large sales have been made at 42s 6d to 455. Dairy produce is in good demand ; butter at 1 s Id. cheese Bjd. Curers report hams and bacon not likely to be ready for export (ora month. We have an improvement to report on last week’s transactions in the import markets. Several large parcels of tea have been quitted at Is 8d to Is 9d, i.b. for tills season’s growth ; several large trade parcels, ex Fairlle, have been forced off at rates which must show considerable loss to importers. Sugars have been moving oil freely in trade parcels, at current rates. We have nothing Important to record in (lie spirit line; trade sales have been brisk at full rates. Morton’s lib salmon lias been pushed off at 9s 3d to !)s 6d per dozen; American, realises 9s to 9s 3d. Morton’s lobsters have been quitted freely at 933 d. In dried fruits we have to report a steady trade sale. Currants are sold at 4Jd to sd; .ele.mes, 6|d;and llgs at 9d to OJd for choice samples. White and bine starch lias been fully offered at 41d, in parcels, and has met with fair sale. We hear of a line of 20 pockets Sussex hops quitted at Is Kid, d p.; the demand is very good for really prime samples ofKeut’s and Sussex’s. Kerosene lias shown considerable activity, large parcels of Cameron’s diamond brand have been placed at Is 6d, i.b, in Christchurch; large sales of of Devon’s have come under our notice at 2s M to 2s Id, d.p. Candles (Price’s). The demand for this brand is very good, the ordinary srles have been made to storekeepers in parcels of 50 to 100 boxes, at 10 7-8 dto lid. Sacks —A moderate business has boon done in Dundee and Calcutta make (full weights), at'lOs 3d to 10s 9d. Cement—The stocks in this line exceed the demand at present; several large lots have been offered within Iho last few days at 19s Gd per cask. One or two sales have been Rooked at this figure. Galvanised Iron —Sales have been made in Gospel Oak, Anchor brand, at rates that must leave a considerable loss to ihose concerned; parcels have been quitted at £!1 per ton d.p Tobacco lias been very dull. We note sales in Koiller’s assorted candied peel at is 2ld. Soda crystals have been sold at 10s 6d to Us, delivered in Christchurch. Clearances for London—May 3rd, Crusader, with wool, wheat, and tallow, and Hopeful, with cargo of wheat. The Countess of Kintorc, from London, arrived on the 29th ult, with full cargo of general merchandise.

Mr C. C. Aikman held a sale of timber ex Marion, from Auckland, yesterday, at the Railway station, when there was a fair attendance. The prices realised were—4 x 1 and -1 x2. 1 Is; 3x 2 and 3x 3, 10s 0 1: 4 X 3, Os ti l; ti X 2, lls Gd; 9 XJ, 10s 0d; 0 x 1, Its; I) x H, Ids Gd; 10 X 1, 93; 6xl, 9s; 0 X J (tongued and grooved), 9s tiJ; 6 x 1 (do), 12s Gd; 9 x 1 (do), 12s.

At Mr 11. Wilkin’s weekly wool, skin and tallow auction, on Thursday, Mr Aikmau reports as follows: About 100 bales wool and ItiOO sheepskins were catalogued and sold at satisfactory prices. Sheepskins, 3s lld to 3s each; pelts, 2d, 7d, Is Id to 3s 2d each; lamb skins, 2s Id each; hides, fresh, 3-Id to 3jd per lb; do salted; Id to 4Jd per lb; culf skins, sound, 6d, cut, 5d per lb; tallow, faulty, 20s to 25s per cwt.; rough fat, 2d to 2id per lb; do. inferior, lid to IJd per lb, Wool prices previously reported.

Messrs 11. Matson and Co report on the Live Stock Market, &c, for the week ending Friday, sth May, 1576, as follows:—At Addington, 313 cattle, and 6284 sheep were penned off for the week’s supply ; competition was much keener than on the preceding week, and most ol the entries changed hands. Our entries comprised 227 head of catile, and 2600 sheep for Sir Cracroft Wilson, Mes-rs Henderson, A. C. Knight, Grant, M’Laren, Jeffrey, Maddison, O’Callaghan, C, T. Dudley, Mullins, Washbourn, Davis, Jones, Wright, Kinley, ’'oiling, Keest, Foster, Daltry, Linney, Fergusson, Simpson, Jobliu, Kobinson, Amos, and others. In cattle we Bold all entered, except 20 of various classes, at very fair prices, and in comparison to last week’s market, the sale was a success. In sheep we disposed of all our entries, and topped the market with Mr A. O Knight’s cross-breds, at 13s 9d, and merino wetiiers for Sir Cracroft,Wilson to 7s 6d per head, and sundry lines at very full rates. There is a capital demand for cross-bred stores or half fat wethers for turnip grazing, but none in the market. Country Sales—At Mr Holt’s sale on Friday, prices were very good. Cows sold from £l2 to £l7 per head, and horses, drays, and implements at very full prices. On Thursday, at our usual weekly wool, hide, and skin sale, a good catalogue was offered, and all sold at capital prices. Wo d, though inferior, sold at considerably beyond owners’ expectations, Hides, all round, at 4jd per lb; rough fat, 2|d per lb, cask, 2jd per lb; cross-bred skins, (butchers), to 4s; merinos, to 2s 9d each; boilers’ skins, Is Gd to 2s 2d each; lambs, to 2s 9d each; country skins, Is Gd to 4s !)d; and rough, Is 4d each. In properties, we have sold 89C acres ol the Longbeach Estate to Mr Joseph Clark, at £ll, equal to £BSOP.

£ 8. d. Spirits .. ... 341 7 1 Drapery 03 6 « Sugar ... .. 50 17 0 Tea 41 15 0 Tobacco BO IV 5 Cigars , , 15 0 0 Sundries 43 18 8 £013 1 8

Spirits £ • ••• 135 8. 7 a. 1 Sugar 292 6 8 Coffee 12 13 3 Cigars 16 5 0 Fish 7 4 0 Drapery Tea 48 2 0 21 6 7 Tobacco 117 5 0 Stationery ... 2 7 0 Sundries 131 8 8 £794 5 1

A. n. p. Ashburton 7733 0 0 Timaru .. .. 821 0 0 Banks’ Peninsula ... 573 0 0 Upper Christchurch Waitangi 300 3871 0 0 0 0 Ashley 100 0 0 Waipara 528 0 0