COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1280, 26 April 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

o The Customs duties collected here on Wednesday, April 24th, amounted to £7ll 19s. The items were as follows: —Spirits, £323 13s 7d; wine, £23 3s 6d; beer, £23 7s 6d; tobacco, 5s j tea, £73 7s; chocolate, £7 ; sugar, £l4B 6s; ad valorem, £Bl 14s; srnods by weight, £2O 15s lid; other duties, £l 6s 6d, PEOPEETY SALES. Messrs Acland, Campbell, and Co. submitted town section 848, in Cashel street, adjoining the Pkess office, being a quarter of an acre, with 66ft. frontage, yesterday. The terms of sale were £SOO cash, the balance of purchase money to remain at B iper cent, for five years. The existing leases iave three years to run. The solicitor for the vendors, Mr P. Hnumer, having read the somewhat voluminous conditions of sale, Mr Campbell announced that he would take £2OO hide to commence With. A start was made at £2060, and by £2OO bids £3IOO was quickly reached. Mr Campbell then announced that £SO bids would be taken, and a ««irited duel took place between one of the adjoining own rs and the ultimate purchaser. The .funner stuck to it until £4200 was reached, which T?as his last bid. Mr M. Harris bid another £SO, and became the purchaser at £4250, or about £64 7s 6d per foot, Mr Charles Clark aiso held a sale of property yesterday, when eleven quarter-acre sections iu the township of Coalgate were disposed of .* prices averaging £8 each. A town section in Cambridge Terrace west, with two collages, brought £6OO cash, MAEEETS, MEtilot-KNK-^/' Argus" of April 15th re„r.,tß the import margot bnsmesa durb r the forenoon had no murhed features, a very or inary trade demand oat. e unflcr t ur notice, but nothing of a .special ohnr.-.cter Cali be reported in tb< way of -,w.s Bread studs are exceedingly qtoetc; all taauiry for Bom-is of the lightest descript on, and cun scarcely bo maintained if no gieatei •Hcti v’itv AcLe* ere long. Meantime, only the merest Hr-, p s-iles-aro malting at £l2 to £l2 ss. W heat is c -iaired for, bur no sales of prime milling can be in fh« over 5« 7’>i; we report the quittance of a sTorcul this lore noun at 5,6 d for medium and 6s «d for prime, but in both c.lsos the wheat was deliinto buyers' store Oaf* arc lutie noticed. v>c entire business done being qoudged to suj ph mg d",..,, OTlitii , OmdAtb-jiS tor feeding r.mge from -is fid to 4s yd. Sales of milling ore making nt 6s. is dr-wping and there is at last tuae appojaautt’e of the article g'mg to a more ream liable Lara than hitherto ruling The price now asked faia Sd co»u«'-ckß arc quit o neglected ; adders w ant i.wt there is little inquiry, and trauaactioi s are t'rl' U ■lmport-.,nt, no .disposition whatever 1 eing mos, m. « i . * . husiuc-- s. Candles are in n odeevmo# though buyers have lately pm'a ViNToV; a*, our quotation of it'd, tbege are i-Sinr smWm the V .ice. Currant* w •a«*ring at ijd & *<s.■ IWS Mumh ptm K“ctVa= r4hct ha# all atteft,

tion; we quote Is lid for Diamond as well as Devoe’s. Sugars have been quiet, pending the auction sale of the Adela S. Hill’s cargo, advertised for Monday next, when it is fully anticipated that a good trade will bo done. Teas are iu moderate inquiry for trade purposes. In liquids we have no iresh business to report. Brandies aro quiet, but values are maintained, though there is no particular business to refer to. Adelaide. —We have to record another dull week. Beyond small sales for immediate purposes, little or nothing has been done. The market is disposed to bo a little easier owing to the pacific character of recent European news, but no transactions aro reported. Quotations are merely nominal at from 5s i-d to 5s 9d for wheat, and from £l3 lbs t o £l3 16s for town flour, and £l2 10s for country brands. Tne exports of wheat for the week ending April 6th reached 2718 tons of wheat, and of flour Bz7 tons, making for the year to that date a total exportation of 46,205 tons of wheat and 20,489 tons of flour. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, April 25. Produce prices are as follows : —Fionr, £l3 to £l3 10s ; oats, 4s i3d to 4s 4d ; br u, Is Id ; wheat, Is; hams, Bid ; bacou, 7d ; cheese, 7id ; maize, 6s 9d; potatoes, £3 15s ; pollard, £7; butter, lid. Dunedin, April 25. In the wheat market, millers are operating cautiously-. The late quotations are ba ely sustained. Ext-n prime milling samples are quoted at Is 6d per bushel; for good, 4s to 4s 3d; for ordinary, ;is 9d. Oats are iu brisk demand at 3s 5d to 3s 6d per bushel for prime milling, and 3s 4d for good iced. Barley, prime malting, is wanted, but there is scarcely any offering ; saleable at from 5s tj 5s 6d per bushel for prime malting samples, and 4s 6d foi good quality. • , , In the share market, quotations arc : —Bank of New Zealand, i.2t ss; National Bank, £3 16s; Colonial Bank, £2 11s 6d ; Natioi.nl Insurance, £1 U)s, cum. div.; Union Insurance. 15s; Standard Insurance, £t 3s ; Shipping Company, £3 15s; Mosg;el Fnctory, £3 7s; Guthrie and Larnach’s Factories, £2 10s.