COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 4963, 17 February 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were as under £ s. d. £ s. d.

The reappearance of the fine weather has brought about a little more activity in trade, but complaints of Uulness arc pretty general,! and stocks, owing to recent large importations are becoming heavy. Quotations remain unaltered, and prices of every description of imported goods appear to be lower than in any other port in the colony, and greatly in favor of buyers in the other ports. Colonial produce has been moving off quietly with only slight changes. Butter, in kegs, meets with moderate demand at 9Jd to lOd for prime cure; bacon and hams, full stocks of Canterbury cure, at JOd to 12d perlb; cheese in fair supply at 7id to Sdperlb, In feeding grains a fair business has been done. -The stock of oats in first hands has become rather low, and sales have been made at 3s 4d to 3s Gd per bushel. Flour firm at £l6 XOs to £l6 per ton for Canterbury and Oamaru mills in bakers' lots. BY TELEGRAPH. DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr. J. B, Bradshaw reports stocks as follow Colonial Bank, 3Cs.; Bank of New Zealand, £1!) 65,; National Insurance, 295,; South British, C3s.; Daily Times, £5 ss. Messrs. Eovae,'Stead, and Co. report■ Wheat. 4s. 6d,. to 4s. Ba. for samples; flour, £l4, with a downward tendency: oats, 2s. 2d. to 2s. 3d.; barley, 2s. 9d, to 4s. ; bran, £5; pollard, £0 10s; oatmeal, £l3 to £l4'l4s, . ' , iVCHBXSTCHUECH, Friday. iThfr weathw Udrfng. the week has been favorable ■fori the' 1 harvest,4,mb farmers are busy getting their •crops Into stack, with fine weather: there will be no

deliveries of new grain worth speaking of for the next ten days. Markets are very unsettled, and no reliable export quotations can be given. Millers offering 4s. 6d. to 4s. 9d. for good sound milling wheat, and 2s. 6d. to 3s. for inferior parcels; oats. Is. lOd. to 2s. is offered in Christchurch; flour, £ls in sacks for old quality, no new in the market: cheese, 61(1. to 6d.; butter, 9d. As soon as threshing becomes general It is expected that prices will steady a little. AUCKLAND. Friday. Weekly Share Market.—Bank of New Zealand, £l9 ss. : National Bank, 705.; Colonial Bank, 375.; Loan and Mercantile Agency, 955. : new issue, 535.: New Zealand Insurance, £4 13s. fid.: South British Insurance, 755.; Northern Insurance, 305.; Standard Insurance, 14s. . , . Mr. Buckland quotes;—Wool, in grease, Wd. to lid ; fat cattle, 225. to 205.; fat wethers, 3d.; fat ewes, from 2d.; hides, 3|d. to 4d.; horses, prices have a downward tendency.

Spirits .. 172 11 7 Ad valorem .. 42 4 0 Wine .. 14 12 0 Other duties .. 20 13 0 Tea 30 0 0 Sugar ..' 19 12 0 Goods by wght 14 3 6 Total .. £313 16 7 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending February 15, were as under:— -£- 8. d. £ s. d. Spirits 930 12 10 Goodsbywght. „91 6 7 Cigars • 18 16 0 Ad valorem .. ®H7 10 6 Tobacco 377 5 0 Other duties.. 53 10 3 Wine 99 4 4 tight dues. Beer .. 131 15 0 shipping, &c. 100 3 5 Tea. .. .. 165 8 9 Coffee 41 12 7 ___ Sugar'.. 647 7 0 Total £3174 17 4