AUCKLAND PRICE CURRENT.

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 144, 16 October 1847, Page 2

AUCKLAND PRICE CURRENT.

[Corrected up to thii date.] Wholesale Prices.— Flour (first qualityy), £18 per ton, Seconds £16 do.— Sugar, £28 to £32 do.— Tea, Congou, £6 6s. per chest, Hyson skin, £4 10s. do.— Coffee, 6d. to Bd. per lb.— Salt, £3 per ton— Soap, £28 to £32 do. Port Wine, 255. to 355. per dozen—Old do. 425.— Sherry, 20s. to 30s. do. Spirits in Bond.— Bum (B. P.) 7s. per gallon— East India, ss. do.— Brandy (Martells), 12s. do.— Gin (in cask), 7s. do. — in case, duty paid, 48s. per 4 gallon case. 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, £50 do.— Black Oil, £\ 6 do. Cocoa nut Oil, £32 per ton. Tortoise shell. 18s. per lb. Wheat, 6s. per bnshel— Barley, 6s. 6d. do— Hay, £12 per ton— Maize (N. S. W.) 3s. 6d. per bushel— New Zealand ditto, 2s. 6d do. Hay, £\ 0 per ton. Timber-— Sawn Kaurie, wholesale, lls. to 12s. per 100 feet,— retail, 13s. to 14s. Retail Prices.— Candles (Moulds), Bd. per lb.— Dips, 6d. 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. 6d f Import Duty on Spirits, ss. per gallon— on Tobacco, Is, per lb. Rr.MARKs.— The recent arrivals have overstocked the Flour market, and prices are nominal ; there have been no sales, excepting some 30 bag* by auctiou, at *16 to £16 10s. The Julia, from Hobart Town, is in the Bay of Islands, and coining on with about 100 tons on board. The Mary, from Launceston, with Flour, &c does not discharge here, but proceeds to Tahiti. Limited sales of Sugars have been efiected at 3d. and 3£d. per lb In Spirits there have been sales of only single hogsheads. Brandy has receded to 12s. in bond. A lew tons of Sperm Oil have been sold at £45.

la the notice of the Sir Robert Sates arrival in our last, " Major Gray" was announced as oue of the passengers, instead of Captaiu Macdonald. The Major is not expected to arrive for several weeks.