AUCKLAND PRICE CURRENT.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 138, 25 September 1847, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRICE CURRENT.

[Corrected up to this date] Wholesale Prices.— Flour (first qualltyy), £20 per ton, Seconds £18 do.— Sugar, £34 do.— Tea, Congou, £6 6s. per chest, Hyson skin, £<t 10s. do.— Coffee, 6d. to Bd. per lb.— Salt, £3 per ton— Soap, (first quality); £34 per ton, second ditto, £28 to £30 do. Pickles (quarts), 26s.— Ditto (pints), 16s. 6d. per dozen. Mustard, 15s. to 20s per dozen. Pepper (whole), black, sd. white, Is. per lb. Arrowroot, Is. per lb. Port Wine, 255. to 355. per dozen— Old do. 425.— Sherry, 20s. to SOs. do. Spirits in Bond.— Rum (B. P,) Bs. per gallon— East India, ss. do.— Brandy (Martells), 1 6s. do.— Gin (in cask), 7s. do.— in case, duty paid, 50s. per 4 gallon ease. J , . . Porter and Ale.— Dunbar's, 145., other brands, 12s. 6d. per dozen, duty paid. Tobacco in Bond, 6d. to 9d. per lb.— Cigars, in Bond, No. 3, £4 per 1000. Flax, £ll to £16 per ton— Sperm Oil, £45 do.— Black Oil, £\* do. Cocoa nut Oil, £30 per ton. Tortoise shell. 18s. per lb. "Wheat, 6s. per bushel — Barley, 7s, do,—llay, *>J2 **er ton— Mafce (N. S. W.),35. J)d. per bubhel— New Zealand ditto, 2s. (id do. Hay, £\0 per ton. RbTAiL Pricus.— Candles (Moulds), Bd. per lb.— Dips, (3d. do. Butter, 2s. per lb. Loaf Sugar, Bd. per lb. Beef, Bd. per lb.— Mutton, Bd. do.— Pork, 3£d. do. Loafof2lbs sd. Potatoes, per kit of sOlbs. 2s. 6tV Import Duty on Spirits, ss. per gallon— on Tobacco, Is. per lb.

Import Duties.— British Spirits, ss. per gallon. Foreign Spirits j ss, per gallon. Cigars* Cheroots, and Snuff, 2<?. per lb. Tobacco manufactured, Is. per lb ; unmanuf.actuied, 9d. per lb. On all guns or weapons of any description, gunpowder, shot, lead, or munitions of war, 30 per cent. Wives, 20 per cent. Ale, beer, porter, cider, and perry, 15 per cent. On all other goods, wares, and merchandise, of British produce or manufacture, 10 per cent. On all other goods, wares, and merchandise, of Foreign manufacture, 12^ per cent.

Free of Duty,— Glass bottles, imported full ; Bullion and coin, —Horses, mules, asses, sheep, cattle, and all oilier livestock, and live animals. - Seeds, bulbs and plants,— -Printed books, (not being account books).

Remarks.— A quantity of Flour, ex " Souvenir," was offered for sale at Mr. Nathan's Auction Mart, yesterday, viz, 25 tons, (first quality) , and 25 tons seconds, but was withdrawn at £18 per ton. During the week, a parcel of 10 tons (firftt), was sold at £20. Accounts from Sydney, favour a rise, it is quoted there at £14. Fair lamples of Sugar have been disposed of at Auction, at £28, but prime sanr - pies remain at £34. Bums are firm at quotations. A littls bas been done inßrandy (Maitell's) at 16s. A sale of case Gin has been made at 28s. per 4 doz. case in bond, but the market price is still fiOs. duly paid. In Porter and Ales, little is ' doing. A parcel of prime Van Diemen's Land cured Beef was sold yesterday by 'Auction, at £3 per tierce,, and at same sale, 50 tons oil casks were knocked .down at £39 per tou.

Maim Outwards. — For London and also for Singapore, CalcutU, Madras, and Ceylon, per Hope, at 8 o'clock, p.m.,' 2oth init. For Port Philip, per Souvenir, at 3 d'dock, p.m., 28th inst.