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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4542, 11 October 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected" at the port of Wellington on Saturday was as follows £ s. d. & »• “• Spirits .. 11 16 3 Tea .. .. 510 0 Wine.. .. SOO Ad yal goods 417 7 Tobacco and Goods by weight 415 1 Ale*and beer *1 17 J Total ..£B7 311 CHRISTCHURCH. (From Saturday’s Lyttelton Times.) The markets are very dull. Millers do not appear quite so anxious to buy wheat, but we still quote 4s. 6d. for best prime samples. Transactions during the week have been limited. Oats are dull at 2s. with little prospect of improvement. The Auckland and most of the Northern markets are perfectly glutted and large supplies to the former market have been sold at 2s. 9d., terms. For potatoes there is no demand whatever, we quote £2 to £2 10s. as the nominal value, but as the season is so far advanced there is no inclination on the part of exporters to touch them at any price. A cargo of good quality Warrnambool potatoes was sold last week in the Auckland market at £3 per ton, and advices since report further arrivals to that market. In flour there is no alteration, values stand at late rates, and trade is dull. In dairy produce there is no alteration on last week’s rates.

JH. CLOUGH AND CO. S REPORT. _ Wool —The new clip is now beginning to arrive more freely, and by the time the opening sales commence there will be a considerable quantity to hand In the meantime there are only several odd lots of greasy and scoured wools being disposed of, which, considering the decline in the Home market, are realising very satisfactory prices. Sheepskins—We have had a good supply of both green and dry skins forward, but prices have declined since our Last. We have sold butchers’ green skins at 4s. to Ts. 6d.; dry skins, 3s. to 7s. each ; and station skins, in bales, sd. to Sd. per lb. . Hides. —The improvement in prices noted in our last has continued, and all coming forward meet a ready sale at the following prices, viz., for gieenox, 245. to 355.; cow, 16s. to 235. each; Victorian, ■wet salted, 4jd. to sd. : New Zealand, sd. to s id. ; kip, sd. to sid.; and calf-skins, 6d. to 7d. per lb. TaUow. Prices have considerably advanced in consequence of the improved quotations from the Home market, the quantity, however, offering here is not large at present. We have sold —Inferior at &J 7to £3O ; mixed. £3l to £34 : beef, £32 to £33 10s. ; and mutton, £35 to £36 per ton. Leather—The market still continues dull, and we had to pass in several lots of dressed leather at our sale on Tuesday last. Crop maintains its price. H o sold—Crop, at lid. to 12d. ; kip, 17d. to Is lOct : calf, 2s. to 3s. 9d.; waxed kangaroo. Is. 9d, to 2s. 2d.; runners. Is. lOd. to 2s. 3d. : and harness, ISJd. to 14id. perlb. Melbourne, September 22.