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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2121, 10 December 1880, Page 2

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The Customs duties collected at Chriatchuroh en Wednesday, December Bth, were as follows : Spirits, £153 3s lia; tobacco, £33 Is 6d; cigars, £l7 3s lid ; wine, £4O 10s; sugar, £46 Is 3d; tea, £59 13a 6d; goods by weight, £9 4s ■VI; ad valorem, £6B 12s; other duties, £lO 12a; total, £l3B 2s lOd. The week has not been productive of any special features. Business in nearly every department is marked by a vary quiet feeling, and doe-i not oomo up to the anticipations of traders. Engagements falling due on the 4th, we are glad to say, have been promptly taken up. The late southerly weather has brought in the I. W. Parker, with a cargo of reapers and binders from New York, and the May Queen and Bangitiki jfrom London. The cargo of the latter vessel will likely be landed in much quicker time than is usually the case, as the port at the moment is blocked with wool. It would be well if the same expedition were used in all cases. In iron goods a Bteady busineß3 has been doing for small lots of galvanised iron at £2B to £3 r J. Invoices to arrive are offered at £27 10s for Gospel Oak ; galvanised nails and screens, 563 Co 60s. Boiled oil is quoted at 4s 7d to 4s Bd, with a limited supply. Colza has been asked for, and values stand at 43 6d to ss, according to the brand of the oil. Carbolic acid for shipment has bsen quitted at 5s 9d, f.o.b. Turps are dull of sale at the moment, the enquiry having died away. Lard oil iB beginning to come into notice, and parcels are tried at 4s 6d to_4s 9d. Plain galvanised iron, 28 gauge, is selling at £'£9 to £3O. Paints show no inquiry beyond the ordinary trade consumption. Cotton waste is rather scarce at the moment, and commands fall rates. Woolpacks are unchanged, but the market is not so firm in the face of the expected arrivals. Cornsacks, from all appearances, are likely to rule high this season. Fair quittances of tea have been made during the week. Crushed loaf, on the spot and to arrive, has been sold at 43a to 50s, according to the quality. Elemea are in Ehort supply, though parcels by Bangitiki should relieve the market; 7Jd to 7Jd is the quotation. Currants are in heavy stock, and sfd to 6d can only be got. Dried apples are mot plentiful, and that, combined with the extra coat, has advanced prices to 6-Jd to 7d. Candles are about the same, though holders are firm. There is next to no business transpiring in kerosene. In spirits there is very little doing. Brandy is qnoted at 7s 95 to 8s 6d for the known medium brands. Whiskey has not seen much business outside of trade lots ; sales of case have been made at 18a Sd to 21s 6d, according to, brand. Ports and sherries are without much 'attention from the trade, but not much has lately been done in sarsaparilla, the increased duty levied by the Customs Staving pretty well stifled the consumption. Bottled ale and stout are without appreciable alteration, and the business has been limited. Stocks of both are more than ample for the trade passing through hands.