COMMERCIAL.
The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were as under :—■■■■■
• 1 • ■ iiF telegraph: DUNEDIN, Friday. McLean Bros, reportßusiness: has been quite at a,standstill during the week, owing to floods, which have (Jone incalculable damage all over the province.: In theabsenceof transactions, 1 we cannot give quotatlons. but we have no doubt that best samples of the new crop will command,higher rates than could have been looked for prior to the disastrous floods. , Store market reniains unaltered. AUCKLAND. Friday. Mr. Buckland quotes:—Fat cattle, ,24s to 28sper IOOIbS ; fat ’sheep, 2{d to 2d. Bank of New Zealand shares. £l9 ss; National, 70s : Colonial, 37si:'New’ Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, 955; now issue, S3s; New Zealand Insurance, £4 12s Cd ; South British, 73S 6d. Mr; Binney reports Adelaide flour, .£l7 ; maize. 6s ; oats. 2s 9d to 3s ; wheat, Os Cd; sharps, 2s lOd ; bran, £6 ; bacon and hams, 9d to XOd ; jams, pound tins, Ss per doz; jars, per lb, I’d.- - ■■■■*■ "• CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Weather fine, appearance of clearing up. Damage to ■ crops extensive. Expected that bulk of wheat Crop will come to market in sprouted condition, in which case low price will rule for flour. Harvest operations necessarily suspended till land dries suflL clently to enable farmers to resume work. Transactions In grain during week but small. Prime hard samples for milling purposes are being inquired for at 4s to-”4i"3d in Christchurch;, Inferior samples will ratige from 23 6d upwardsbarley oat crops all more or less discolored, but little damaged otherwise; -. flour, £l4 to £ls : bran, £5; oats, 2s ;, butter, 9d; cheese, Cd, all in Christchurch.
£ 8. d. . ■, 1 ' £ s. d. Spirits ., , 129 15 6 I Goods by wght 32 10 10 TVinp .. . 22 9 9 Ad valorem .. 57 12 0 Ten , 1(! 0 0 1 Other duties .. 39 12 0 Coffee.:. ■ , 33 15 01 ■ — Ale (bottled).. 2 12 C| Total, ;.. £335 8 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4957, 10 February 1877, Page 2
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