COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4586, 1 December 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington yesterday was as follows: £ a. d. £ 8. d.

MELBOURNE. (From the Argus of November 20.) In the import market a fair amount of business has been done to-day. Country orders still come forward freely, and a very much improved trade demand is experienced in consequence. Breadstuffs show little change. Flour is moving off in small lots at £l3 55., but no special inquiry exists. Wheat is quoted at 6s, 7d. to 6s. Bd., and good dry Northern would sell ut our quotation, but there is not much offering. We hear, however, of a line of 2000 bushels having changed hands at 6s. Bd. In oats a very depressed feeltng is still perceptible ; quotations range from 3s. 4d. to 3s. 9d., according to quality, but we are without any fresh business to report. Maize is decidedly firmer; 4s. lid. was accepted in the morning, but subsequently this figure was offered and refused for 500 bag parcels, and ss. is now generally required. A large business has been done by auction in sugars, but a decline of 15s. per ton at least had to bo submitted to on brewing: fine whites, however, realised full rates. The cargo of Mauritius, j>er Le Merest, comprising 0443 bags, was submitted to competition, and from the box the whole, except 500 bags, was disposed of; 30s. 9d. was realised for low grainy yellows, to 31s. 9d. for good; 30s. .3d. to 30s. 9d. was obtained for low yellow crystals, 31s. Sd. to 31s. Cd. for good, 325. for fine; 31s. for good, to 325. 6d. for fine brewing crystals; 31s. Dd. for good, and 325. 9d. for fine grainy grey; and 345. 9d. to 355. for good wliites', Low Bourbon rations were sold, all faults, at 21s. to 225. Privately, sales of finest whites have been made at £34 10s. to £35. Hops still attract attention. Some forty-six bales have been disposed of at from Is. lid. to 2s. A line of fifty bales has also changed hands to arrive, at 25.; the sample was very prime. Brewers’ lots are moving at up to 2s. 2id. Teas are going off to a fair extent; COO packages have been quitted at Is. Cd. to Is. B£d. for medium to good medium congou*.. Galvanised iron is improving, and prices have advanced fully 20s. Fencing wire has risen into notice very suddenly, and since yesterday the market has been cleared of best brands to the extent of several hundred tons, and £2O is now required for No. 8, quotations all round having risen to £lB and £l9 for Nos. 6 and 7. A parcel of Calcutta cornsacks has been quitted at Bs. 3d, Under the hammer, 113 packages tobacco were disposed of. Leaf brought Bd. to 10d., and fiat work was quitted at la. Id. to 3s. 2£d., ■while faulty sold at Is. 3d. to Is. 3Jd. The timber sales.comprise 339,000 ft. Baltic white timber, which sold at from Os. to lla. 3d. for 0 x £ to C x IJ.

Spirits .. 168 18 0 Cigars.. 35 0 0 Wine .. 6 12 8 Ad val. goods 91 3 4 Ale - .. .. 43 0 0 Weight 6 9 11 Tea .. 6 0 0 Other duties. 6 16 3 Tobacco .. 30 15 0 Total . £398 15 a