COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4416, 15 May 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending May 13, 1875, were as under:

Business in the Import market has been rather dull during the past week, owing "to the absence of any English vessels, but a fair ordinary amount of.trade has been done. Prices show no change, and quotations are in almost every case unaltered from our last

report. In New Zealand produce the same remarks apply, butter In kegs being dull at Is. 2d. per lb. for prime cure. A largo shipment lias been received from Sydney per Easby. Cheese scarce and in good demand. Bacon and hams scarce, and worth lOd. to Is. 3d. per lb. Oats depressed; shipping parcels quoted at 3s. sd. to 3s. 7d. per bushel. Flour unaltered ; Canterbury and Oamaru mills, quoted at £l2 per ton for bakers’ parcels.

LATEST LONDON WOOL MARKET REPORT, Messrs, Jacomb, Son, and Co., report under dat London, 17th March; — • . , . , 1 The first series of public sales of colonial wool opened on the 23rd February and will close 25th inst. The importers’ committee have this day determined that the ensuing series of sales sh! ‘' l cor "“™“ ™ 4th May. Up to this evening more than three quarters of the available quantity has passed the hammer, and hut a very small proportion has been bought in Continental purchasers have given strength to the market, having taken more than half the quantity sold; little or nothing has been bought for American account. The weakness and fall in prices quoted on the opening of the sales has, in most cases, been materially remedied since, the market , hardening as the sales progressed ; hut the best prices of the series have not in all cases been maintained the last tew nights New South Wales and Queensland wools have not sold generally , satisfactorily, nor have .thoy_ fully shared the improvement gained in other descriptions since the opening; fleeces have ranged about lid. and greaso Jd.to Id. under the average of last sales. Of Victorian there has been a largo and attractive assortment, including many of the best clips of prime growth in ‘very good condition and most carefully prepared. Their natural enemy the “burr is, we regret to say, rather gaining ground; opening rates showed a range of prices on a par point of last year, material improvement has since accrued, and prices for washed and grease are about equal to the satisfactory rates of March last year. Lambs sell briskly at rather higher rates. . Nearly half the South Australian clip is arrived for these sales, chiefly in the grease; with a like depression at the opening, these have since improved m value in fully the same ratio as Victorian clips. Of New Zealand the collection has been unimportant; that little has been briskly competed for at prices relatively fully up to those of other descriptions. Capes, in goodly supply, have been selling about Id. under November prices. The large proportion of seedy snow-whites showed a still greater decline at first, but have since improved. About 1000 bales of woolled sheepskins were offered on the 13th March, and about two-thirds were sold at unsatisfactory prices.

£ 8. (1. Spirits .. .. Cigars .. .. 047 0 6 108 10 5 Tobacco.. . 872 4 0 Wine .. .. 104 12 G Ale .. .. 137 0 0 Tea and Coffee '195 10 6 Coffee .. .. 14 0 0 Sugar .. . 782 10 8

£ B. <3. Goodsbywoight 151 0 8 Do. ad valorem 547 16 a Do. other duties 17 0 0. Lteht dues. shipping &c. 20 4 '4 £340112 0