COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5142, 15 September 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday:— £ s. d. £ s, d. Spirits .. 179 IS 11 Weight .. 15 10 8 Wine.. .. 7 2 8 Ad valorem .. 428 C 2 Cigars .. 17 15 0 Other duties.. 5 7 0 Tea .. .. 81 19 0 Sugar.. .. 50 17 1 Total .. £742 12 0 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending September IS, were as under £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 513 14 8 Goods by wght 25 8 7 Cigars.. .. 74 15 10 Ad valorem.. 102 15 0 Tobacco .. 202 12 0 Other duties .. 414 0 Wine .. .. 70 8 8 Light dues. Beer .. .. 28 10 3 shipping, etc. 74 12 0 Tea .. .. 102 410 Coffee.. .. 0 0 0 Sugar.. .. 255 11 9 Total £1575 15 5 Business continues dull, and the past week has been unmarked by any material changes in quotations for imported goods, stocks of which are still heavy. At auction on September 11, Mr. G. Thomas sold 40 boxes new season’s teas at 24s ; 5 chests sago, 2Jd per lb ; 30 cases kerosene, at 2s 2d: 2 tons soap, 2 Crown, at £lB 5s ; 3 Crown, £24 per ton ; 50 cases Lea and Perrin’s sauce, lls 9d per doz ; 40 do Chamoion’s vinegar, 9s per doz; 10 cases Brown and Poison's’ corn flour, at Cijd per lb ; 10 do Coleman’s D.B.F. mustard, at 18s 3d to 18s Cd per doz ; 10 do Beil and Black’s plaid vestas, at 5s 9d per doz ; 20 do Morton’s pickles (pints), at 9s; 10 do quarter sardines, at 4s 9d ; 10 do half do, 8s 3d per doz; Jeffrey’s ale, 7s Cd per doz ; Tennent’s do, 9s 3d. Goods in bond—Associated Vineyard's brandy, 21s Cd : quarters do, Cs lOd per gal; 100 cases Barnett’s old tom, 13s; 80 do Booth’s do, 14s Cd; 100 do Bullock Lade whisky, 14s 9d; Hennessy’s brandy in quarters, 9s 3d ; case do, 81s to 31s 6d; 3 Star do, 41s; clarets, ICs to 24s per doz : Bruno Silva’s port wine, quarters, 9s; octaves, 3 Diamond, lls Cd per gal, etc., etc. Colonial produce remains at last week’s rates, stocks of most descriptions being overdone. Keg butter cannot be quoted higher than Cd to 7d for prime cure, and difficult to place. We note the receipt of 59 kegs from a Southern port consigned to this market. Bacon and hams are overstocked, at 7Jd to 9d for best cure: sales by anction at C}d per lb. Oats, moderate stocks, at 3s lOd to 4s. Flour firm at £l7 10s to £lB, for best brands of Oamaru and Canterbury; Adelaide, £23. Potatoes, heavy stocks and dull, at 00s to 70s per ton. Mr. George Thomas reports produce prices ns follows Flour (Adelaide). £23 ; colonial, £lB to £lB 10s ; oats, 4s per bushel; bran. Is do; wheat, 4s Cd do ; haras, 9d per lb ; bacon, 9d do : heeao, 7d do maize, 4» Cd per bushel ; pollard, 7s Cd per lOOlbs ; potatoes, £3 per ton. BY TELEGRAPH. (PER riIEHH AOKTTCY.) AUCKLAND, Friday, Mr. Einney reports Adelaide .flour, £23 ; Melbourne do, £22; Southern do, £lB 10s ; sharps, £8 10s; bran, £5 10s; potatoes, £4; bacon, 7d to 8d; onions, 2d ; butter, 7d; oatmeal, £2l; pearl barley, £24.

Mr. Buckland reports:—Sheep scarce—advanced 2d per lb ; lat sheep, 6d per lb ; lambs have advanced 2s Od each; fat cattle. 34s to 80s; inferior do, 80s; dairy cows, £0 to £7 15s. OAMARU, Friday. The market for grain and breadstuffs is quiet, and but little business is being done. Wheat, 6s to 7s. and but, little offering. Oats, 3s to 3s 3d, and the market quiet. ' Barley for malting, none: • feed qualities, 2s 0d to 3s ; Hour, £l7 to £l7 10s ; oatmeal, £l7 ; pearl barley, £2O ; pollard, £5; bran, £3 15s—all f.o.b. The potato market is glutted.