COMMERCIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4547, 16 October 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington yesterday was as follows:- £s a Spirits .. 12 0 0 Ad val. goods 424 0 G Tobacco and Goods by weight 36 11 1 cigars -- 143 7 6 Other duties.. 9 Tea .. 19 10 0 Sugar.. .. 614 6 Total ..£642 4 4 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending October 14, 1875, were as under : - £ s. d. £ s. d. Soirits .. .. 662 110 Goodsbyweight 401 0 2 Cigars .. .. 15 9 7 Do. ad valorem 1648 7 7 Tobacco . .. 122 7 6 Do. other duties 58 18 6 Wine .... 85 1 2 Light dues, Ale .. .. 113 13 9 shipping, &c. 72 18 8 Tea .. •. 78 13 6 Coffee .. .. 29 15 3 * " Sugar -- ...242 12 4 £3591 510 The import trade of the past week has been quiet and unimportant, with no change in value to call for remark. Generally business is slacker than desirable, but owing to the absence of speculative purchases and the caution exercised by the retailers in keeping down stocks, it may be conaidered the more sound in conSe iS e cofonial produce we report little change. Keg butter is rather scarce, and worth lid. to 12d. per lb., but as the summer advancesi and ;fresh butter dccUnes in price, cured butter will submit to the same in fluence: Port Cooper cheese is in fair demand at lid., and wanted: bacon and hams. In cloth, scarce at 10d. to is. 4d. per lb.: flour, unaltered at £ll 6s. to £ll 10s. per ton for Canterbury and Oamaru, in sacks, oats, little business doing, prime feeding sorts are quoted at 3s. sd. per bushel; maize, sales at ss. Id. per bushel for a line of 400 sacks New Zealand; potatoes, fair stocks, sales at 725, Cd. per ton.

BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, .Friday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports :—Sales: Cure, 15s. Buyers: South British, 49a 6d.; City of London, 34a ; Caledonian, 855.; National Insurance, 225. Sellers: Beach, 775. 6d.; Bismarck, 12s. 6d.