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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4571, 13 November 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected afc the port of Wellington yesterday, was as follows: £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits ~ 62 711 Ad val. goods 322 0 4 Wine .. 6 7 2 Goods by wgt. 8 19 7 Sugar.. .. 18 4 0 Other duties.. 31 3 0 Tea .. .. 20 15 0 Tobacco and Total .. £544 7 7 cigars .. 74 10 7 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending November 11th were as under: — £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. .. 927 5 3 Goodsby weight 114 0 1 Cigars .. .. 67 4 1 Do. ad valorem 253 19 7 Tobacco., .. 153 10 11 Do. other duties 0 2 8 Wine .. .. 98 4 7 Light dues, Ale .. .. 110 3 9 shipping, &c. 56 19 11 Tea .. .. 329 7 0 Coffee .... 5 5 0 Sugar .. .. 121 9 1 £2237 11 11 A fair amount of activity has prevailed in the import trade during the past week, but while stocks continue so much in excess there is little prospect of improvement in quotations, which remain without alteration from our monthly report. Mr. K. J. Duncan sold three cases of English leather, &c., by auction on Wednesday at the following rates Waxed kip butts, 3s. 6d. per lb.; French calfskins, withdrawn at Cs. 0(1 per lb.; Scotch kips, 2s. 9d.; gents'uppers, Bs. per pair; do calf-lined, Bs. 3d. to 95.; ladies' do, ss. to 6s. 9d.; block lasts, 2s. 9d.; ladies’ do, 25.; &c. In produce things are very quiet. Keg butter dull at lOd. to lid. for prime cure; cheese continues very scarce and in great demand, there being actually none in first hands; hams and bacon meet with ready sale at 13d, to 15d. per lb., and are scarce. Oats dull, prime samples are worth 3s. 3d. per bushel. There is a heavy stock of inferior feeding oats in the market, worth from 2s. lid. to 3s. 2d, Flour dull at £ll to £lllos. per ton for Canterbury and Oamaru Mills in bakers' parcels; maize, full stocks at 4s. lOd. for trade lots ; fowl's feed scarce, and worth 4s. Cd. per busheL James Smith sold by auction, on account of the General Government on Monday, ex Border Chief, from London, galvanised wire, damaged by sea water, at the following rates;—l ton, at £24; Uptons, at £22.

BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Alexander Sannders reports as follows; Sales: South British, 605.: Beach, 905.; Tokatea, 145.; Koyal Oak, ss. Od.; Bismarck, 10s. Buyers; National Bank, 725. 6d.; Colonial, 295. Sellers: Colonial, 325.; South British, 515.; Caledonian, 965.; City of London, 30s. Mr. Buckland reports :—Biddings dull at the wool sales ; prices twopence lower than last year. Fat cattle, 375. 6d. to 40s. per lOOlbs. ; halt or crossbreds, 13s. to 155.; wethers, in wool, 4d. to 41d.; shorn, Sid-: fat lambs, 10s, to 16s. Mr. Binney reports:—Flour, Oamaru, £l2; Dunedin, £1110s.; Christchurch, £10.; bran, £5 ; pollard, £0 ; oatmeal, £Xfi; pearl barley, £24; wheat, ss. 3d. ; oats, 2s 10d.; potatoes, £4; cheese, lid.; bacon and haras, Is.; butter. Is. Market glutted with all kinds of produce.