COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4448, 22 June 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected at the port of ■Wellington yesterday was as follows £ s. d. & s- d. Spirits .. 12 9 5 Goods by Wine •• C 8 0 weight .. Cl 17 5 Ale and beer 48 0 0 Tea .. .. 42 10 0 Sugar .. 18 3 7 Other duties.. 20 10 D Ad valorem 7 7 goods ~. 234 17 5 Total .. £4ul 3 1 • MELEOUENE. (From tlio Anjtts of the 12th' Juno.) In the import market, business tO:day has not been marked by anything of importance. A considerable amount of depression still prevails on account of the Sydney failures, and there has been less desire to operate in the market in consequence. Bread-stuffs are not active, but though sales are not so readily effected, we have no change in prices to report. Flour is moving off at £lO 12s. Bd. to £lO 15s. The latter figure Is got for best brands, sales being reported at the price. Wheat is quoted at 4s. lid. to 55.: at the last-named rate a small parcel of about 1000 bushels was placed. Oats still meet with considerable favor, fine qualities being most in demand. We learn of the quittance of the entire shipment of 1570 bags of milling, per Mary Bannatyno, at 4s. Id. Common feeding Tasmanian are also in request. A line of 400 bags was placed at 3s. 7d. to 3s. 7Jd. Maize is selling at ss. 2d. Sugars are firm, and Mauritius sorts are inquired for We understand that sales to a fair extent have been effected.. Candles are coming more into notice. We learn of a line of CSO boxes, D.lt.O.’s having been taken up tor shipment at a full price in bond. Sales of colonial woolpacks, 10(15., from McPherson a fao tory, are making at 3s. Cd, An Invoice of bar and rod iron has changed hands at a price supporting late quotations. In dried fruits there Is a considerable demand for currants, and wo understand that as much as 55d. Is now offered tor parcels to land. leas are moving oft for trade purposes Sales of very ordinary congous are mentioned at lid., while Is. lOd. to 2s. has been obtained for fine congou. At the timber sales this forenoon, nothing of special Importance was done, A line of 50,000 ft. oxif T. and G. flooring was sold, all faults, at 7s. 9d. One hundred and eighteen packages tobacco were sold publicly at B*d. to° 23. od. In liquids, wo note sales by auction of brandies, when ilennessy's pale 1809 was placed at 9s. 2d., and 1871 at Bs. 3d. to Bs. 3jd. Martoll s 1870 was quitted at Bs. 3d. Otard’s, at same time realised 7s. 8(J. Port wines were disposed of at £23 to £23.