COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2425, 13 January 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Chriatohuroh on Wednesday, January Jlth, wereas follows: Soirita. .£214 15»: tobacco, .£ll9 13s; wine, v6ll 16s; beer, .£ll9a 6d; sugar, .£l9O 7b 5d ; tea, £ii 7a 6d ; goods by weight, .£407 16a 9d; ud valorem, .£635 9a Id; other duties, .£l7l 6s 3d. Total, .£lßl2 0a 6d. GRAIN REPORT. Harvesting operations have now commenced in some districts, and in another week or ten days will be sreneral all over the province, the season being about a week earlier than last year owing to the late nor'-westera ripening the crops prematurely. Reports apeak very_ disoouragingly of the prospects, more especially of the yield of oats and barley, and in some diatrieta they will be Ecarcely worth reaping. To counterbalance tbia loss to the colony, it is however pleasant to find that in Southland, but more particularly the Southern portion, the crops look uncommonly well, especially oats, and heavy yields are expected from an unusually large area sown this season. We have heard of no transactions aa yet in new wheat, but old stocks are being cleared out at 4s, so that probably the market will open slightly under this figure. Notwithstanding the anticipated short delivery of oats, prices continue very dull, and no move is yet felt from any outside markets. This is probably accounted for by the fast that the foreign demand is yearly diminishing, and heavy stocks are still held from the past year. We continue to quote la lOd for feed, and 2s for ohcice milling. Barley is firm at our last quotations. So much of the growing crop is inferior and thin, that holders of good malting stocks decline at present to sell except at each prices as leave no margin for malting. Flour is quiet at £'o 10s f.o.b. In bran and sharps there is little doing and prices remain at last quotations.