COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4832, 16 September 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were as under:— £ s d Spirits .. 149 b' 11' Goods by wgt.. 19 18 2 Wine .. 10 12 9 Ad valorem .. 181 14 9 Beer (bulk) .. 5 0 0 Other duties .. 322 5 0 Tobacco .. 44 15 0 • Tea ...■• •• 12 1 9 Total .. £745 17 4 Tho Customs duties - received at this port for tho week ending September 14, were a 3 under:— £ s. d £ 5. d. Spirits.. .. 956 3 11 Goods by wght. 117 10 0 Clears .. .. 201 210 Ad valorem 1265 1 Tobacco .. 294 7 6. Other duties .. 321 17 Wine .. .. 110 15 9 Light' dues,- ; Ale .. .. 29 10 0 shipping, &c. S 3 13 Tea .. 323 4 6 Coffee .. .. 33 11 6 Sugar ...' .. 269 12 10 Total, £3986 2 0 the import trade of the past week had been moderate and shows but llttte variation in quotations. The new 3 received of a rise in the value of sugars led to a few transactions in that article, but stocks were not sufficiently large to offer great inducements to speculators. Prices have gone up to £3 per ton in Melbourne, and a proportionate advance is now asked by holders here—quotations being now IC, £45; C, £42; yellow; £3S per ton d.p. • In colonial produce there is no change: except m the article flour, which has sustained a further improvement and is firm at £l3 10s. to £l4 per ton for sacks in trade lots—stocks light; potatoes are also in demand, and worth £4 10s. to £5 per ton; keg butter, dull, at Is. for prime cure ; cheese, full stocks, at 9Jd. to lOd. per lb. ; bacon and hams in fair supply, cloth packed, being worth 9d. to lOd. per lb.; oats, dull, at 2s. 3d to 2s. Bd., according to sample. BY TELEGRAPH. ■ AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Buckland reports :—Fat Cattle, 355. perlOOlbs.; then fell ss. per lOOlbs.; fat sheep, 31s. 2d. Mr. Saunders reports :—Buyers : Bank of New Zealand, £lB 55.: South British. 565. 6d.; New Zealand Insurance. 795.; Loan and Mercantile, 395. Sellers : National Bank, 70s. Mr. Binney reports:—Flour, star, £ls: superfine, £l3; southern, £l3; maize, 4s. Sd.; oats. 2s. 10d., sharps, £8; bran, £7: bacon, 10d.; butter, lOd. to Is.; cheese, 9d. to 10d.: jams, 7s. Cd. to 7s. 9d.; potatoes, £5; oatmeal, £l4; barley, pearl, £24. DUNEDIN, Friday. Wheat comes forward very slowly, and prime milling samples, which are wanted, command up to ss. 6d. per bushel. Barley is still almost unsaleable; milling has sold at 2s. 6d., but malting qualities have not been dealt in. Oats.—Stocks are very scarce, and I all good samples arriving meet with ready sale.at 2s. to 2s. Id. for good feed, and 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d. for milling and seed samples.