COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4790, 29 July 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were as under:— A , £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 77 11 3 Weight .. 19 16 J Wine.. .. 13 14 11 Ad val. goods 9 8 1 Ale (bottled) 100 16 3 Other duties 19 5 6 Tea .. .. 22 8 0 Sugar]! !! 18 13 4 Total ..£287 13 5 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending July 27 were as under £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 1229 19 11 Goods by wght 27 16 1 Cigars .. 128 011 Ad valorem .. 1018 13 9 Tobacco .. 128 8 6 Other duties.. 30 1 0 Wine .. 146 11 6 Light dues. Ale .. .. 17 0 0 shipping, &c. 26 411 Tea ~ .. 117 611 * Sugar.*,' !! 213 3 9 Total £3099 9 3 There is little to report in the import trade of the past week. Comparatively few sales to any extent arc reported, and trade generally as might be expected at the latter portion of the month has been extremely dull. The Horsa has arrived via Dunedin, with cargo from London, thus adding to our already ample stocks of imported goods. Prices are unaltered from former quotations, and generally show a downward tendency. In colonial produce, butter remains firm at Is. 3d. per lb. for prime cure in kegs; cheese, dull at lOd. per lb.; hams and bacon are in fair supply, and cloth-co-vered Canterbury cure is worth 10.Jd. to I2£d. per lb. Flour remains at last week’s rates ; moderate trade doing. Grain. —Oats in full supply at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 7d. per bushel. BY IELEGRAFJi. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Binncy reports:—Flour, £l2 10s per ton: sharps, £7 10s; pearl barley, £24 ; potatoes, £4 5s to £4 10s: oats, 2s 6d per bushel; maize, 4s lOd to 6s; bacon and hams, lOd per lb ; butter, 10d.; cheese 9£d.; oatmeal, £l4 per ton. Mr. Buckland reports:—Fat cattle, 30s; inferior, 255, fat sheep, 31s 4cl: DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr. Bradshaw reports:—Sales : Bank of New Zealand, £lB ss; Colonial Bank, £ll3s; National Bank, £3 14s; National Insurance, £1 4s; Standard Insurance, 12s 3d. Buyers: Colonial Bank, £1 12s; National Insurance, £l3sCd; Standard Insurance, 12s: Mosgiel Woollen Company, £llss. Sellers: Colonial Bank, £1 13s; Shipping Company, £4 4s; New Zealand Insurance, £3 17s; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, old issue, £4 ss—new issue, £2. Money —8,9, and 10 per cent, according to amount. Dunedin Markets,—Wheat still continues in good demand, and prime samples are quoted from 4s 6d to 4s 9d; good ordinary, 4s 4d to 4s 6d ; inferior and medium, 4s 4d to 4s 3d. In barley little is dene; prime samples are saleable at 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; ordinary and inferior from, 2s Gd to 3s 6(L Oats have been in slightly better demand, but prices have not experienced much improvement. Good milling samples. Is lid; feed, Is 9d to Is lOd. CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Produce quotations f.o.b. at Lyttelton : —Wheat, 4s 9d per bushel, market very firm; oats, 2s 2d; barley, 4s nominal; butter, Is 2d to Is 3d per lb; cheese, Did; hams and bacon, 94d in cloth; flour, £lO 10s to £ll 10s per ton; bran, £5 10s; sharps, £6 10s, in demand and millers’ stocks low; potatoes, £3,