COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5106, 4 August 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected -at the Customs yesterday:—

The Custom* duties received at thia port for the week ending August 2. were as under :—■ *•

Tlie past week has proved dull, and no changes.in, quotations have come before us calling for .special t notice, prices with few, exceptions remaining unaltered. Stocks are generally.heavier,than' desirable, ruling consequently in. favor! of, buyers ; but sales are limited to local requirements of the retail trade. In colonial produce,'flour remains at‘£lß to £lB 10s for. Oamaru and Canterbury mills in sacks, and although price's are hardening in Australia, the'large stocks’on hand-in New Zealand markets have served, to cheek any rise here. Oats are firmer, and are quoted at Is. but large sales have been made at 3s 9<l : barley, dull at 3s 6d to 3s Rd. Bacon, hams, butter, cheese,-and: produce generally! unaltered in value, and in full supply. Mr George Thomas reports :—Hour, New Zealand, £lB to £10; Adelaide, £23 10stb!£24; oats, £4,.firm;" potatoes, £3 10s; bran, £1 Is; wheat; 48 9rl, for fowls; milling, none; hams, 10d; r bacon,' 9d;..pollard, 7s C(l;‘ cheese, 8d; maize, 4s 3d t0.43.6d. BY TELEGRAPH. ' 1 ’ !, /-, DUNEDIN; Friday, •; Produce quotations are.as follow: Wheat, prime, at 7s. Od; inferior* Ss 6d to 7s; oats, Ss.Sd ,to Ss./.d; barley. 2s9dto 4s 6d, 1 ; ' Mr, J. B. Bradshaw reports the following for’.the; week -Bank of New Zealand, £22 ■ss ; -National Bank. £3 11s ; Colonial Bank, £2 2s: National Insurance, £1 2s 6d: South' Britlsh;'£4 ;-New Zealand Tn--surance, £5; Mosgiel Woollen Company, £3 ss. A UCK L AND ’ S (I A RE ‘MARKET. (FP.OM OOK. OWN COP.KKSPONnF.NT.) -AUCKLAND,-Friday-Mr. Alexander Saunders reports. :4-Sales: National Insurance. 32s Cd ; Caledonian, 95s ;■ Moanataiari, £8 10s; Alburnia. 57s : Kurunul,' 20s‘; Thames,‘.'4os.'; Buyers; National Bank, 70s? South'-Britisb, 80s: -New Zealand Insurance. 100 s; Beach, 15s. Sellers:’Bank' of New Zealand, £22 10s

£ s. fl. £ 8. d. Spirit ... 435 3 0 Ale (bottled) 2 17 .-.6 Wine 33 17 7 Ale (bulk) .. 5 0 n r,o 10 0 Goods by wgbt 35 3- 1Cigars C 11 Ad valorem .. 553 3 1 Tea 85 10 0 Other duties.. 10 0 0 Coffee 8 17 6 Swear ,. .. 308 8 2 ; ' • £1516 ,6 7

. 1483 r, 7 Goods by wghfc .102 10- 1 Clears.. . 04 1 3 Ad valorem . 819 11.. 2 Tobacco . 373 19 0 Other duties .. 3 16 2 Wine ., . 139 0 10 Light dues,. :r - Beer .. . 13 11 3 shipping, etc 60 14 1 Tea . 186 16 fl Coffee.. . 25 0 0 Snt'fir . 415 9 5 Total £3724 110