COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4434, 5 June 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port for the week were as under:

Owing to the past week being the early portion of the month, town and country orders have come in pretty freely, and a fair amount of business has been done in imports of all descriptions. Quotations remain about the same as given last month, any tendency to improve being checked by recent arrivals and advices of large shipments on the way. We understand that a vessel has sailed from Adelaide with 150 tons of flour for this port, and the Lady Franklin may be looked for daily with a full cargo of sugars and general from Melbourne. The Express, steamer, formerly trading between Dunedin and the the Bluff is; we understand, to make this her head quarters, and compete for a portion of the Napier and East Coast trade; and we also learn that Messrs. Seager have taken the contract to build a steamer U> run between this and Napier, evidence fully bearing out the growing importance of this as a central and distributing port. * La the produce market there is no alteration in rates. Keg butter meets with scant inquiry at Is. 2d. per lb. for exceptionally good cure. Cheese is rather scarce at Dd. to lOd. Bacon and hams—none in first hands—are much wanted at lOd. and Is. 4d. per lb. Flour dull, and moving off slowly at £ll 10s. per ton for bakers' parcels, Canterbury Mills, Oamaru being worth 15a. to 20s. per ton higher. Oats quiet at 3s. 6d, for a prime sample, there being only a trifling demand, the large consumers having supplied themselves direct. Potatoes in fair supply at 755. to 80s per ton.

BY TELEGRAPH. „ , AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Dockland reports fat cattle. 355. to 425.; fat sheep, 4Jd. to fid. The Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency received the following commercial telegram per Tararua:—"London, May 23.—W001, up to date—--130,000 bales have been sold. Competition on French account Is active, but German demand dull. Scoured, market firmer; medium and inferior greasy, market easier; superior greasy cross-bred lambs, market easier ; superior clothing washed, and superior combing washed, advanced 3jd. to 2d. per lb. Wheat market quiet, Adelaide worth 4Ds. per 4941b5. Weather favorable for crops here,” . CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. The gram market is quiet. 12,332 sacks of wheat jpre shipped in the Warwick for London. Quotations, f.0.b., wheat, 3a. 6d.; oats, 2s. od.; barley, 4s. Sd. to 55.; potatoes, £2 35a.; flour, £lO £lO to £11; cheese, loi >h " p "' £Q : ha ™* ls - : bacon * ud -

Spirits .. £ B. .. 738 14 d. 2 Cigars .. .. 51 15 0 Tobacco.. .. 345 18 0 Wine .. 101 6 8 Ale .. no 8 9 Tea .. 222 19 0 Coffee .. .. 15 1 3 Sugar .. .. 131 6 3

£ s. d. 1 Ooodsby weight 226 1 2 Do. ad valorem 2725 10 5 Do. other duties 54 18 1) Light dues, shipping &c. 116 2 1 £4840 1 C