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The Customs duties received at this port on Saturday were as under £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. .. 62 10 O Goods by wght 5 911 Tobacco .. 14 17 6 Ad valorem .. 57 7 7 Ale (bottled).. 4 16 3 Tea .. ..5 0 0 •Sugar .. . • 18 2 0 Total £159 3 3 The amount collected for the week was £3259 Is. BY TELEQHAPB DUNKDIN, Saturday. Wheat is still scarce, and any arriving meets with immediate sale at lull prices : best Northern, 5s 9d to 6s : good medium, 5s 6d ; inferior, 4s 3d to 4s 9d ; oats, steady at from 2s Id to 2s 2d ior good feed, up to 2s 3d to 2s 4d for good to prime milling : barley, neglected. - , _ , • AUCKLAND, Saturday. Mr. Buckland reports :—Fat cattle, 26s to 30a per 1001 b.; sheep, 2Jd; lambs 10s to 16s. Mr. Binney reports :—Flour, star brand, £l6 10s ; superfine, £ls 10s; sharps, £810s; bran, £7los; bacon, lOd: cheese, 9d to 10d; maize, 4s; oats, 2s lOd; potatoes, nominal. Bank of New Zealand, buyers, £lB ss; Colonial Bank, buyers, 31s ; sellers, 32s 6d; South British Insurance, business done, 595; buyers, 58s; sellers, 60s: New Zealand Insurance, 80s toß2s6d; New Zealand Loan Mercantile Ag mey, buyers, 90s. ■ SYDNEY, Saturday. Hennessy’s case brandy, 31s to 325; in quarters, 2s Bd. to 2s. 9d.; kerosene, 2s 7d ; Adelaide flour, £l4 XOs to £ls 6s; Adelaide wheat, 4s; New Zealand wheai, none in the market; New Zealand oats, unchanged ; sugar, unchanged; Belmont sperms, IOJd for five medal.
* Means &c. f Means previous twelve years. Notes.—This has been the finest October experienced during the last twelve years. A few showers of rain fell during the middle of the month, the max. recorded on the 14th, OOOin., the total fall being very ,Braall. Winds prevailed from N.W. and S.E., and very moderate : on the 19th it was rather strong from the former quarter, i owards the latter part the heat was rather oppressive at times, the temperature being very high for this period. This month’s mean temperature is the highest that has occurred for the same month for twelve years back, the nearest to it being 65 7in October, 1866. The rainfall is also the smallest on record for October. The maximum temperature in'shade was 74deg., and the minimum, 38deg. R. B. Gore.
. 1 . . TW+a | * | HOO(»'-JC5tnrf»WN)HOOOOWOOilMCliHOOQO*aOO'lfkW!OM i»OLC. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, WELLINGTON, Fob October, 1876. 8 j § gls — i^o*^i(ktk*^ii*Sco4.uoci*4a>Qta.i^(X)i!ntouc90uc*iCituui^oo Barometer reduced and corrected, (inches). i Oi i . , J Cl 1 -40N>5DU*~JOOOS-4CO©»Kk.OiOONi»-*-*JO©CSCJWSOU!W«f‘0-4tOH‘l* * | «n 1 030 ifioVi Max. Temp, in Shade. From Self-Registering Instruments for 24 hours previously • J O I «*JSWM fc »08H«JkOC0WM^H(n0iMC» i O(XOW#*O®5^Mgi ’ 1 j -4 Or © O oioociooioocooocoo^to’scioooooio^oo Min. Temp, in Shade. J 51 ©1 o 1 6«ii66M Mean Temperature. Maximum in Sun. 115 105 119 119 120 124 130 120 130 108 130 128 127 113 (no 120 132 (135 129 130 125 133 123 105 116 130 132 120 130 130 130 123 • 1 { 0'Ci|UtPfcV't^O'i©>t^**i(t£titt£k.CO&SOSlttetU)F»’i(tt^»(tCi9COC46>aCoe>9&3C 1 . * I to 1 OOOCCOOWUOOU'CC«IWC0ii‘tCOCfiii‘OO'-‘S^^i-O^O^ on Grass. a»*i I s M •*» © :::::: 8: 52; : s£: ::; g: 8S Ol O O O o o c Rain Fall in Inches Veloc. Wind in Miles. * 1 si ooooooooooooSoooootnyiooo^ooooc 3 $ *302 3 cn *25 w o !8 ‘^ !{!! £ ,^ s $ 8 - H: 8 8 af ' 'J. Direction of Wind.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4875, 6 November 1876, Page 2
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