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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5052, 2 June 1877, Page 2

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The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending May 31. were as under; — £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. .. BSd 11 8 floods by wght 107 15 7 Cigars .. .. Il l 13 10 Ad valorem .. 220 5 0 Tobacco .. 207 l.'i 0 Otherduties .. 7 5 10 ■Wine .. .. 11l 12 2 Light dues, Beer .. .. OS 15 0 shipping, etc 38 4 10 Tea .. .. 103 18 6 Coffee .. ~ 20 18 0 Sugar .. .. 155 11 0 Total £2305 5 5 The import trade has been dull during the past week, and (lactations have, from that cause and the continued accumulation of stocks, a downward tendency: in fact it is difficult to effect sales at almost any concession, as dealers are limiting their purchases to tiie sorting up of their stocks. Kerosene is quoted at 2s (Id ; currants are firm at 4Jd to 5d per lb; and dried fruits generally in active demand at our last rates. Usual trade doing In spirits; bulk brandy being quoted at 8s 3d to 8» Cd for Hennessy’s other brands dull. There is uo Adelaide flour in first hands, and the stock in the hands of the bakers is nearly exhausted, advices are received of 200 tons on the way: in the meantime small lots are quoted at £29 per ton. ia produce—Keg butter is dull at lOd to lid per lb, ot prime (samples, with no demand Jfor shipments;

cheese is overstocked, and sales have been made at 7d to 7id for Canterbury; bacon and hams in full supply, and difiicult to quit in parcels except at a great reduction. Sales by auction at ranging from Od to lOd ; flour has steadily advanced in value, and is now firm at £IS per ton for *“ks of Canterbury and Oarrmru brands, with every indication of still higher rates being obtained, stocks being exceedingly low; potatoes have freelyan cannot be quoted higher than 70s to ios per ton . oats are unaltered, at 3s to 3s 3d per bushel; fair demand, Thomas reports produce quotations Flour, good brands. £1710s; oatsi, bnm, £6 5s per ton; wheat, milling, /s. hams. Can terbury. Is: bacon. Canterbury, 10d: cheese, Akaroa. t)d; potatoes, £4; maize, none in maikct, pollaid, £7 10s per ton. TI t r nSL> T t?/l VA P U

by telegraph. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Ducklancl quotes:—Fat cuttle, 28s to SOs per 10011)3 ; mutton, 4cl per lb, Mr Blimey quotes;—Crown brand flour, £— , Southern, £U) : bran, £C ; oatmeal, £lO : oats, 3s Od ; bacon, 7tl to Sd ; cheese, 0d to 7d, The Customs' revenue for May amounted to £13,34-! 8a Id There is a falling olf of £2043 11s od, as compared with the corresponding month of 1870. DUNEDIN. Friday. I’roduce quotations:—Oats, feed, 2s Od; milling, 2s Od: wheat, 0s 3d to 0s Od: chick do, 3s bd to 3s od, barley, malting. 4s to 4s 4d; feed, 2s Od to 8s; bran, £3 15s (bags); flour, large bags, £l7; small, £l/ 10s; oatmeal, £lO ; potatoes, 4s; hay, new, £4 ; old, £0 , C * MY. Bradshaw reports ;—Colonial Bank, 41s; Bank of New Zealand, £2010s; National, 07s; New Zealand Insurance, 95s ; South British, 80s; Standard, 15s ; Otago and Southland Investment, 255: Loan and Mercantile (new issue), 50s; Mosgtel M oollen, 60s.