COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4939, 20 January 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port yesterday wore as under„ _ - £ s d £ s. n. Spirits.. .. 02 810 Ale (bottled) .. 312 6 AVino .. .. 54 10 AYoight 13 ® * Tobacco .. 29 17 6 Ad valorem ..310 Sugar *9 17 2 Total .. £176 3 6 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending January IS, were as under; £ s. d. S V Spirits ... 006 16 0 Sugar.. .. f Cigars .. 96 13 9 Goods by wght. 58 18 1 Tobacco .. 267 19 3Ad valorem.. • 345 13 9 Wine.. .. 103 5 7 Light, dues. Beer .. .. flill C shipping, &c. 131 5 0 Coffee” :: 14 0 .Total £3013 11 1 The import trade during the week has been moderately active, and-shows evident signs of improvement. Holders of brandies have advanced their rates more in accordance with Home quotations, but not to the full extent warranted by last advices. Hennessys bulk brandy is quoted at 9s Cd to 0s 9d per gallon; case do, 34s to 35s per doz.: other brands secured a proportionate advance. Sugars are now held for £46 Ser ton for Ist Counter, £4B for second white, and £56 for crushed loaf, showing a rise of 40s to 60s per ton. Adelaide flour, firm at £IJ to £lB per ton. In colonial produce there is little change, keg butter dull, at 9d to lOd for prime cute; cheese, 7d to Sd- bacon and hams, lid to Is per lb. Canterbury and Oamaru flour is worth £ls to £l6 per ton for sacks, stocks being moderate: oats remain at 2s lOd to 3s 3d per bushel, according to sample: maize, 5s 6d to 5s 9d; chicken wheat, 4s 6d per bushel; potatoes, scarce, and worth £6 to £7 per ton. LONDON COLONIAL WOOL SALES. We are indebted to the Union Bank for the following circular of Messrs. Edenborough, Doxet,. and Co-:_ London, EC., November 23, 1876. The fourth and last series of colonial wool sales opened on the 31st ult. The quantities arrived in time for sale amounted to 199,292 bales of first-hand wool available for sale. - ’ The sales opened with the . largest attendance of buyers ever known, and competition was very spirited, at an average advance of about 10 per cent, on closing rates of the previous series. As sales advanced a still further improvement was realised, until almost all descriptions, both of Australian and Cape wools, regained the full drop of the two previous senes, and were briskly competed for at top February rates. This continued for the first fortnight, after Which buyers having supplied their most pressing wants, and a considerable quantity of second-hand wool being brought forward by dealers desirous to clear out old stocks at present prices, a quieter tone was manifested, and although all really good sound wool, and more especially good greasy, still maintain the very highest rates of the series, there! is a turn in buyers' favor on the faulty descriptions of Australian and New Zealand, and from the comparative neglect of secondhand lots, this, in their case, sometimes amounts to a decline of Ad. to Id. per lb. In Cape wools the very large proportion ef seedy and faulty scoured has affected their value, and they may be quoted Id. below the top point, but good sound well-conditioned wools, free from seed, arc as dear as any time during the sale. , ... ' The quantities so far catalogued, including this evening, have been—New South AYales and .Queensland, 30,111 bales ; Victoria, 27,162; Adelaide, 8969: West Australia, 468 ; Tasmania, 6783; New Zealand, 36,350 ; Cape, 47,672. Total, 157.515 bales. BY TELEGRAPH. Geahamstown, Friday. Mr: Leydons sold cattle at the following prices Springers, from £lO to £ll ss; cows, £8 2s 6d to £8 15s: calves, £2 4s 6d; bullocks, £6 15s to £7 2s 6d; heifers, £4 5s to -£4 10s. Of the latter there are few in the market. ■ CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The grain market is quiet. No transactionss have as yet taken place-in the new grain. The heavy rains during the week have retarded harvest operations. Deliveries will therefore be considerably late; the barley crops'Will be greatly discolored. The wheat and oats crops have suffered but little damage except in the southern districts. Early deliveries of wheat will command extreme ,rates.' Oats, 2s 4d to 2s 6d; barley, nominal; butter, lOd ; cheese, 7d; flour, £l4 to £ls, bran, £5; sharps, £O. Trade dull. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Bucklaud reports Fat cattle, advanced 2s per 100 lbs, - SOs to 465; fat wethers advanced 2s per head. - „ Mr. Binney reports:—Adelaide flour, £l7, Star, £l7; Super,. £l6; sharps, £S 10s; bran, £7; oats, 3s 3d; maize, 4s 9d; bacon and hams, 9d to lOd; 1 lb jams, Sd: 2 lbs, 7J; jars, ditto. , , „ The National Bank has declared dividend of 0 per cent, for half year ending September 31.