COMMERCIAL.
The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were aa under: — £ s. d. Ad valorem .. .. .. 4 8.10 The Customs duties received at this port for the month ending June 30 were as under: — £ a. d. £ s- d.
For tho corresponding .month last year, £9917 The Customs duties received at this port lor the Quarter ending June 30th: were as follows : 1 £ *. A. £ a. d.
Coffee .. 235 18 9 | ■ For the corresponding quarter of 1875.£34,934 9s. flu. The import trade fduring the week has been dull, and with the exception of auction sales few transactions have come under notice. In colonial produce there has been little or no variation in prices, and only a limited amount of business done. Keg butter is quoted at Is Id per lb for a prime sample ; Canterbury cheese, lOd. Flour has shown a slight tendency to give way, owing to heavy, stocks and the receipt of several shipments from Adelaide. We cannot quote higher for Canterbury mills than £ll 5a per ton, and for Oamaru £ll 15s, for trade parcels. Hams and bacon arc coming forward in better supply, and are worth lOd to 12d per lb for prime. Oats have given way to a small extent, and good milling sorts are not worth more than 2s 8d per bushel; inferior, 2s to 2s 2d. Wheat, good milling, saleable at 5s 2d; chicken wheat, 2s 9d to 3s per bushel. BY IBLEOUAPR. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Export quotations f.o.b. at Lyttelton:—Wheat 4s, to 4s 7idoats. 2s. Id, to 2s. 2d.; barles, 3s. Cd. to4s. 3d.; butter Is. 3d.; cheese, 9|d.; potatoes, £3; hams and bacon. Did,; flour, £lO 10s. to £ll 10s.; bran and sharps very scarce at £slos. to £ClOs.; wheat, market firm. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Binney reports Flour, Dunedin, £l2 10s.; Christchurch, £lllos. Oatmeal, £l4 ; pearl barley, £24 glutted; wheat, 6s. 2d.; oats, 2s. 4d.; potatoes, £4 'ito.: hams and bacon, 10d.; butter. Is. 3d.; maixo, 5». • :
Spirits .. 8753 15 10 Coffee.. .. 80 4 0 .. 257 17 2 Sugar .. ., 12ol 8 10 .. 1140 8 10 Goods by wght 820 11 10 .. 074 0 4 Ad valorem .. 900 8 2 Ale (btld) .. 76 11 .. 85 0 8 Other duties.. 280 12 G Total .. £10.020 2 4 Tea .. .. 587 17 3
£ 113(10 8. S a. 8| Sugar .. .. 4855 17 0 . 690 1 9 Opium .. 0 10 . 3142 10 4 | Goods by wght 2600 18 1 4 c 9 1 Ad valorem ..10152 7 . 1575 0 6 1 Other duties.. 877 1 1 1782 0 0 Tea .. . 2094 3 0 Total £39437 0 y
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4766, 1 July 1876, Page 2
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