COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1091, 28 December 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The revenue collected at the Customs on Monday, December 24th, amounted to £967. The items were as follows:—Wines and spirits, £331 15s lOd; bottled beer, £3l ss; tobacco, £29 15s; cigars, £34 Os Sd; tea, £18; cocoa and chocolate, £43 9s 6d; sugar, £167 16s 7d; candles, £26 Os lOd; sauce, £1012s; pianos, £l9 8s ; hardware, £l2 14s; ironmongery, £l6 2s; galvanised iron, £32 Is 6d; wearing apparel, £ll 18s; iron safes, £l4; fencing wire, ±'2o; paints and oils, £6 19s 4d; sundries, £l4l Is 9d. MELBOURNE MARKETS. By the Alhambra we have Melbourne papers to the 19th insta.nt The "Argus" of that date reports:— Breadstuff's though quiet are still firm, and for flour more especially extreme rates have been realised. Trade sales are making at £l2 7s 6d to £l2 10s. Under the hammer the quittance of 30 tons was effected, and £l2 10s was realised. There is a good trade demand. Wheat is steady at 5s 9d for any spot parcels, but we understand that sales have been made at less money for delivery a few days hence. Oats are improving; 4s 5d was sectired this forenoon for trade parcels of good feeding, while at auction inferior feeding were placed at 4s Id. Maize is quoted at 5s 4d to 5s sd, at which sales have been making. Sugars are moving off very freely indeed. The Victorian Sugar Company report a large demand for their qualities, fully 150 tons having changed hands. Under the hammer, the Ebenezer's cargo of Mauritius was all cleared off this forenoon. The bidding was marked by considerable freedom, and 10,022 bags and pockets were quitted at £36 to £36 15s for brewing crystals, £35 to £36 for yellow grainy, £35 to £35 10s for white crystals, £35 for yellow counters, £34 to £34 10s for good yellows, £32 10s to £33 for medium counters, £3l 10s for low browns, and £3O to £3O 10s for rations. Queensland low counters were also quitted at £3lss to £31155. These prices show an improving market; 10s advance was realised on yellows, and 10s on browns. The brewers' brought extreme rates, and values for whites were also very fully supported. Low congou teas were quitted by auction at lOd to 10-*d. A small parcel of superior Kent hops was placed at Is 7?d. Publicly Is 5d was obtained for Kent hops sold as per sample. A shipment of 480 cases oilmen's stores was cleared off under the hammer. Cornsacks are still moving at the rates reported yesterday. Besides some other lots a parcel of 25 bales was quitted. Sales of resin are still making at £9 to £9 10s. Business in dagger stout continues to be reported at 8s 6d to 8s 9d. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, December 27. Flour, colonial, £ls; Adelaide, £l7 10s to £18; oats, 4s, firm; bran, Is; wheat, 4s 6d; hams, 9d; bacon, 8d; cheese, 7d to 8d; potatoes, 7s to 8s; pollard, 7s; maize, 7s; butter, fresh, 7d; salt, Od, nominal. Duneuin, December 27. Bank of Tsew Zealand shares, £23; Colonial Bank, £2 9s; National Bank, £3 10s to £3 lis; National Insurance, 30s to 31s Id; Union Insurance, 10s to 10m 6d; Now Zealand Insnrancc, 955; Greymouth coal, 455; Mosgiol factory, 655.