COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4796, 5 August 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received ct this port yesterday were as under; — £ s, d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 169 12 4 Goods by wght 13 15 7 Wine .. .. 2 6 0 Ad val. goods 111 3 9 Ale (bulk) .. 50 0 Sheepwash .. 22 6 Tobacco .. 28 15 0 Cigars .. 29 10 0 Sugar .. 18 4 0 Total .. £3SO 9 2 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending August 3 were as under : £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 690 19 4 Goods by wght 125 10 9 Cigars.. .. 83 10 4 Ad valorem .. 373 4 7 Tobacco .. 299 15 0 Other duties.. 105 19 3 Wine.. .. 91 2 0 Light dues, Beer .. .. 153 15 0 shipping, &0. 30 4 5 Tea .. .. 210 12 9 Coffee.. .. 19 1 6 Sugar.. .. 173 S 7 Total £2632 3 6 Considering the extremely bad weather the import trade of the past week has given no cause to complain. A steady demand for all articles of consumption is manifest in every department both in town and country buyers, bitt sales are restricted to current wants, with an absence of all speculative purchases. Prices continue low and unaltered from our month’s quotations. In colonial produce, keg butter is in moderate demand at Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. per lb. for prime samples, but inferior sorts, of which there is a large quantity in store, is worth from 7d. to 9d. per lb. Cheese dull, at 9d. to lOd. per lb. for Canterbury make. Hams and bacon, owing to full supplies coming forward, cannot be quoted higher than Bd. to 9d. per lb. for bacon. Is. for hams. Oats are in full supply at 2s. 6d. to 2s. Bd. for ordinary feeding sorts; prime seed oats have been quitted at 3s. per bushel. Chick wheat in fair supply at 4s. Potatoes—Market bare during the week, but several small shipments have been received during the last day or two, and quotations now rule firm at 80s. per ton. BY TELEGRAPH. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Export prices f.o.b. at Lyttelton:—Wheat, 4s. 9d. to 55.; oats, 2s. 2d. Barley nominal. Flour, £ll to £l2 ; bran, £5 10s.; sharps, £6 10s ; cheese, 9Jd.; butter, Is. 2d. to Is. 3d. ; potatoes, £2 17s. 6d. to £3 ; hams aud bacon, 9Jd. in cloth. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Binney reports;—Flour (star), £l4; superfine, £l2 10s. ; sharps, £8; bran, £7 10s.; Southern flour, £l2 10s.; bacon, lOd. to lOld. ; butter. Is. to Is. Id.; jams, 7s. Od. to 7s. 9d.; oats, 35.; wheat, ss. Od.; maize, Mr. Backhand reports:—Fat cattle, 275. 6d, to 305.; ship-borne, 275. 6d. to 30s, Fat sheep short. Store ewes, 17s. Mr. Saunders reports:—Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, £lB 55.; South British, 545. od.; National Insurance, 245.; Standard, 12s. Sellers: Colonial Bank, 335,; New Zealand Insurance, 80s.: New Zealand Shipping, 82s. Od. DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr. Bradshaw reports— Sales: National Bank, £3 125.; Colonial Bank, £1 125.; National Insurance, £1 45.; Standard Insurance, 12s. 3d. Buyers: Colonial Bank; £1 11s.: Standard, 125.; Fiji Bank, £2 10s. Sellers: Colonial Bank, £1125.; Standard Insurance, 135.; New Zealand Insurance, £3 175.; Shipping, £4 4s.