COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4356, 6 March 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending March 4, 1875, were as follows: £ s. d. £-' s. d. Spirits .. ~ 801 7, 9 Sugar .. .. 191 2: 3 Cigars .. .. Goods by weight 168 4' 7 Tobacco.. 311 2- C Do. ad valorem 1053 15 6 Wine .. 95 11' 7 Other duties’. 463 15 3 Beer .. .. 133 ■ 8 9 Light ;; dues, . ' Tea.. .. ... 145 17 0 shipping &c. 79 9 3 Coffee and chi- — 1 cory 23 11 9 ; £3467 6 2- !: A moderate f amount of business has been done in imports during the past week, hut transactions have been only of a limited character, prices remaining unaltered from our last quotations, with a somewhat drooping tendency, owing to the large accumulation of stocks. Generally there is a complaint of dullness in‘the town trade in everydepartment,-but country; orders have come in pretty freely to counterbalance 7 it, and Importers have only to complain of insufficient profits, in the produce market' there is not much activity, the unsettled state of the grain and flour ‘market checking all operations. * Flour rules low and can hardly be quoted, and the same remark applies to grain. At Mr. R. J.' Duncan's produce sale, on Tuesday, ’March 2nd, ,the following prices were realised under the hammer.:-rl74 r bags barley, 45.; 45 bags fowl seed, 35.; CO socks wheat, 35.; 150 sacks do.2s. 9d.;, 20 sacks pig'feeij, '25,; 40 sacks pollard, 05;,6d.; 200 d0.,,05.;. 120 sacks bran, Is.; 120 sacks oats, 3s. 9d. per bushel 1 ton King’s flour, £11; 2 do. Henderson and Sounder’s do., £U. arid'£ll 55.; 6. tons Duncan’s flour, £l2 10s.; 6 tons Anderson and, Mowatt’s flour, £l2 ; 3 .tons, oatmeal at £1010s.; pearl barley, £l7 ; 19;tons, fine salt, 705., to 755.; 100 bags -wheat, at 35.,8d. to 3s, lid, per bushel.. , . . . - Keg-butter is quoted at Is. 2d. per lb. for prime curb; cheese, -7di tb 9d. per lb.; bacon and hams, Is, to Is. 2d. per lb. v / ' '■ ■ •• '

. BY TELEGRAPH. ' r; ; AUCKLAND, Friday., Air. Alexander. Bounders reports:—Sales; Bank of New Zealand, 300 s. Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, 3605, ;.South British, 495.; Standard,l2s. Gd.; City of London, 40s. ; Royal Oak,l7s. Od. Cure, 65.; 'Bismarck, 10s,- : - v , Mn Buckland reports fat clittlo as being ,in im-, usually full supply at 255. to 20s. per lOOlbs:; inferior, 20s.' Fat sheep, 3d. to 3Jd; per’lS.; inferior ewes, Ba. to'l2s. bacb. • \ J ' I ; ~~ DUNEDIN, Friday. Crain report Quotations remain unaltered. Oats continue dull of sale ; no transactions in new crop. <