COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5004, 7 April 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties received at this port yesterday were as under: — £ s, d. £ s. d. Spirits ... 142 9 3 Sugar .. .. SO G 6 Wine .. .. 28 18 8 Goodsby wght. 310 7 Tobacco .. 44 5 0 Ad valorem .. 270 13 7 ■Cigars.. .. 15 18 9 Other duties.. 417 0 Ale(bottled).. 5 0 0 Ho. (hulk) .. 7 2 6 Tea .. .. 25 10 0 Total £627 11 10 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending April 5, were as uunder : £ a. d. £ a. d. Spirits .. 674 16 0 Goodsby wght. 344 18 5 Cigars 54 T 4 8 Ad valorem 2010 16 11 Tobacco .. 261 10 0 Other duties.. 214 15 11 Wine .. 64 2 5 Light dues, Ale .. .. 98 17 6 shipping, 4c, £9O 6 4 Tea .. .. 258 16 0 ■Coffee .. 25 10 6 Sugar .. 449 8 1 Total ..£4743 12 9 A fair amoant of business is reported in the import trade in spite of the holidays, which necessarily to some extent interfered with it. There is little or no variation in prices, but as stocks continue to be augmented by every English ship that comes in, and are already excessive, quotations show symptoms of drooping, and are to a considerable extent in favor of the buyer. Colonial produce shows little or no change since our last report, quotations remaining unaltered. Prime keg butter is worth Is per lb, but meets with little enquiry ; cheese, 8(1 to Bjd per lb; bacon and hams, lOd lo lid per lb; only moderate stocks of each in first hands. Flour is somewhat easier, and as considerable quotations are coming forward from the Southern ports, holders have lowered their quotation to £ls per ton for Oamaru in sacks ; bags, £ls 15s for parcels. Oats are firm, at 3s 3d per bushel for prime milling sorts, and 3s for ordinary feed ; maize, 5s 6d ; fowls feed, 3s 9d. Potatoes firm, at 90s per ton. BY TELEGRAPH. CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Export quotations, f.o.b. at Lyttelton : Best milling wheat, 5s 6d ; second quality, 3s fid to 4s Cd ; oats, 2s 8d ; barley, 4s to 5s ; flour, £l4 10s to £ls 10s; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 10s ; cheese, 9d. ' DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr. Bradshaw reports stock as fallen. Bank of New .Zealand. £l9 17s fid; Colonial Bank, £1 17s; Standard, 14s ; National. £1 10s; South British, £4 ; Otago and Southland Investment Company, 24s ; New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency (new issue), 60s; Mosgiels, £2 4s. Produce.—Wheat, 4s 3d to 5s ; barley, 4s Cd ; oats. 4s 3d to 2s fid. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Buckland quotes fat cattle at 20s to 2fis per lOOlbs ; sheep, 2|d per lb ; pigs, advanced Jd per lb. Mr. Binney quotes :—Adelaide flour, £18; Southern do, £lO 10s; maize, 4s 9d; oats, 3s 3d: sharps. £8 10s ; bran, £6 ; bacon in cloth; lOJd; jams, per doz, 8s; potatoes, £3 10s. Bank of New Zealand— Buyers : £1917s 6d; Colonial (40s paid up), buyers, 78s; Thames Gas. buyers, 20s ; South British, 70s ; National Bank, 30s; New Zealand, 92s Cd ; Bed Queens, 4s ; Caledonian, sellers, £3 ; Moanataiari, buyers. £lB 10s. sellers, £18; Inverness, £0; Alburnia, 20s Cd to 21s.