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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1264, 6 April 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Cnstoms duties collected here on Thursday, April 4th, amounted to £771 16b lOd. The items •wire-Spirits, £207 8s 5d ; wine, £ls 7s 7d ; tobacco, £l4B 17s 6d ; tea, £sl lis; sugar, £49 8s 2d ; ad valorem, £28014s ; goods by weight, £x2 19s 9d; other duties, £ls 10s sd. GRAIN AND PRODUCE The uncertainty regardi' g the future course of events in the .hast causes a very unsettled feeling here in the wheat market, and most traders have ceased to operate for the present for export. Should war break out, doubless values will improve in England, but whether this distant market will be proportionatelv affected remains to be seen. If pence results fioiuthe negociations now pendirg, prices most give way, and, as there are heavy stocks held, the fall will be all the more seve e. With the possibility on one hand of higher prices, and the absolute certainty ot a fall on the other, traders are now acting cautiously, and there are tew or no buyers in the market. For prime wheat sellers still ask 4s 3d to 4s but we have heard of no sales of any consequence during the week. Oats are very firm, but transactions lately have not been numerous, prices offeriug being now Bcircely equal to sellers' views. For good milling oats, buyers offer 3s 9d to 3s lOd, and Us 6d for fuir feed. Barley of choice malting quality readily commands 5s to 5s Id, but second samples are more difficult to sell, and for a large parcel a reduction on late quotations would have to be submitted to. Grass seed is very dull of sale, the season for export being now almost over, and best quality can be purchased at 5s 6d. Flour is moving off freely at £ll in bakera' parcels, but there is no tendency to speculate in any quantity at our quotation. Potatoes are very quiet, and notwithstanding reports of a light yield, and offering at 40s. In bntter and cheese there is nothing doing, values being nominal at 7d and sid.' COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Atjckiasd, April 5. Flour, new, £l4 : old, £l3 ; oatmeal, £22; pearl barley, ±2.'; oats. 4s 9d; bran, JW; pollard, £■> 10s- "maize, t>s Gd; potatoes, £3; cheese, 7d; bntter, Ud; hides, l J 3 d to 2ld to 3sd ; p Its, 4d to8d; sheepskins, Is 9d to 3s 6d; lambskins, 2s <id to 2e 9d : wool-locks, 6sd to 7h\ ; fleece, in grease. 7d to BJd; lainbswool. H<\ ; fat cattle, 24s to 28-; per lOOlbs; fat sheep, 2Jd to 2\&; good con-diti'-ned pies, 2|d. i-hare Market—Bank of New Zealand, £24; National, 7-ls to 75s ; Colon! il, 51s (id to 52s Od ; National Insurance, 78s; Auckland Gas, £1 »; Thames, 29s ; Union, £ls 15s 3d , New Zealand lusurance. 945; Guthrie and Lxxnacb, 47s bd; Moanatairi, 6:'s 6d to tss: Albnrnia, 51s ; Sellers, 535: Tokatea, £4 4s bd ; Union Beach, 15s; Sellers, 20s. Wellington, April 5. Flour, £l3 to £l3 5s ; oats, 4s ;id to -is 6d, scarce; bran, Is 2d, in good deniau<l ; waent, 4s ; hams 9d ; bacon, 8d ; cheese, 7£d, pollard, *.7 10s; potatoes, £5; maize, 5s tid. Timahu, April 5. Grain quotntions are about the same as last wetk Wheat hhows a somewhat downward tendency. Oats are scarce and in better demand. Barley but few transactions to quote. Oamaktj, April 5. Grain is now coming in in larjce quantities, but farmers a ? k more than buyers are willing to give, owiiig to thj crops turning O'.t better than was expe ted. Wheat shows a downward teiidtmcy, and receded to 4s; best samples of oats are in good demand at 3s to 4s to 4s tid ; breadstuff's are quoted f.0.b., fl-">iir, £ll li's to fclJ; Oatmeal £ 8 ; pearl bailey, £2O; pollard, £5 10s ; bran, £3ss; potatoes, 45s to 508.