COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5197, 17 November 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday ; J? a A C m fl

The Customs duties collected at the port of Wellington for the week ending Koveraber 15, were as follows:

The import market during the past week has been fairly active, and stocks have .been, considerably aug-menUul-by the cargoes of the three London ships now discharging, and the May with tea and China produce. With very few ..exceptions, too trifling to call for notice, prices remain much the same as last reported, the bias being in favor of buyers. Flour is the only article that has shown a considerable downward tendency. best Adelaide having fallen from £2l per ton at the beginning of the month to sales within the last day or two at £lO to £l7 per ton ; and as prices have receded in the Australian colonics, with every prospect of being much lower, owing to overflowing harvests in all tiie grain-producing countries, we may expect Hour to reach very low quotations this season. In colonial produce there is no change from our last week’* report. Everything is overstocked, and sales consequently are made at a disadvantage to the shipper. Hirtter is unsaleable at 6d to 7d per lb. for prime cure, except in small parcels. Cheese, bacon, and hams overstocked, and difficult to place at Sd per lb. Flour is lower in price, and from the quantities pushed into this market by the Southern millers, likely to be still lower. We quote £ls per ton for best Oamaru flour, sacks, in bakers' lots ; but we believe several parcels have changed hands at a lower figure. Oats remain at 3s Od to Ss lid per bushel, a line of 500 sacks having been placed at the lower figure. Wheat for fowl feed lias been selling at 3s 10s to -is ; and maize, 4s Bd—full stocks. Potatoes overstocked, several lots having been cleared at auction at 10s to 21s per ton. Holders are asking 38s to ■los for small lots. . MELBOURNE WOOL MARKET. Messrs. Ooldshrough and Co. in their monthly circular. dated Melbourne, Slst, October, report ns follows : WOOL. Toe opening sde of the season was held at our warehouses on the 24th Inst., and the attendance of fore'i'ii and colonial buyers was imusuaUy numerous, ivtdish. Hootch, Coutiuenal, and American firms, being well represented. , The biddings opened with great spirit, and were well maintained throughout the sale, 2404 bales being sold out of 2589 bales catalogued. With the exception of one small clip of greasy, the lots were of an ordinary to average description, and the prices realised were fully equal to the average of last year, unwashed lots ranging from fi-Vl to U OJd. and inferior to good average washed from Is 3d to Is OJd per lb. Subsequent sales have passed off in a satisfactory manner, and about 5500 bales have been sold in Melbourne to date. This day (Wednesday) we shall offer about 8000 bales, being the largest catalogue hitherto brought forward. In Australia. . , , , ~ The dip, so far as we have seen it, Is in hotter condition than we expected ; for although a proportion bears evidence of the dry season, the bulk is in fair order being light in weight, and with an average length and stremth of staple. A number of the Piverinc flocks are rather tender, as also are some of tin- lots from Now South Wales, received via Sydney, but we shall be able to judge better when a larger quantity Ims passed through the warehouses. There will evidently not he so much wool forward (or tiie February sales this season, the shearing havi„; been delayed loogcr than usual; but there are now large arrivals daily, and the total slapped in thin! may possibly be not much less than last year. Buyers a'rc anticipating a demand for tiie new clip before the usual sales commence, andtho Chimborazo, n . is to sail on tin: sth of November, via Suez Cilia), with about 4000 bales, at high rates of freight, viz,, Id (or washed, and ijd per lb for greasy. This cargo will probably bo delivered in London about the

middle of December. The Durham, s.s;, is to sail on the 7th of November, with about 3500 bales at Jrt and |d per lb freight, and she will probably reach England about the end of , December or early in January. -. The ordinary. rates for sailing vessels are as usual, $d and id per lb. SHEEPSKINS. We have sold a full supply at our regular sales held during the month to local fellmongers, and not© a decline in value of full-woolled skins of 3d to Od per skin. Butchers’green skins realised 4s to 6s Cd each; cross-breds, 6s Cd to 7s Cd each; dry skins (ordinary to medium growth), 3d to 4jd per lb ; fullgrown station skins. 5d to 7d per lb. There is a good demand for all descriptions, although prices have receded owing to the quantity of wool placed on the market. HIDES. . . This market has not improved much since the date of our last circular, and light-weights are difficult of sale, although heavy-weights aro In good demand at quotations which aro about equal to last month s, viz.:—Average ox-hides (fresh), 18s to 29s each ; cowhides, 15s to 22s each; Victorian salted, 3jd to 4su per lb; New Zealand do, 4£d to 5d per lb. Calfskins are not much inquired for, and lower prices have to be taken for all lobs sold. TALLOW. In consequence of the gradually increasing supply, prices aro not so firm as they were last month, and we have to quote a reduction of fully P er to Q » Our sales are—Best mutton. £34 10s per ton, f.0.b.; mutton, £33 to £34; beef, £3l to £33 ; mixed, £27 to £3O per ton. Our sales have been made principally to local consumers, and comprise 634 casks of ail descriptions. The rate of freight to London is 60s per ton. We have no clearances to report this mail. by telegraph. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. (FRO.M OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) AUCKLAND. Friday. Air. Alexander Saunders reports;—Sales : South British, 775; Moanataiari, S2s Cd. Buyers: Bank of Now Zealand, £22 6s; Caledonian, 60s; Albumin, 60s; Thames, 30s. Sellers: Colonial, 48s ; South British, 18s; National Insurance, 325; Union, 12s Cd : Albumin, G2s Cd. (PER PRESS AOENCV.) Buyers: Bank of New Zealand, £22s 5s ; South British, 775, Sellers : Colonial Bank, 48s ; National Insurance, 325; Union, 12s Cd. Sales: Moanataiari, 85s; Alburnia, GOs. _ tJ CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The grain market Is very dull. AVheat, 4s 6d to 6s : oats, 3s; flour, £ls to £l6 ; potatoes, 20s ; butter, 5Jd to Cd ; cheese. 5d to s£d: hams and bacon, 7d to 8d ; mutton in wool, 3d ; beef, 27s Cd.

£ 3. Cl.' Spirits .. 153 3 7 Wine .. .. 24 18 0 Tobacco .. 60 5 0 Tc.a .. 218 7 6 Coffee,. .. 47 15 -9 Suinr .. 52 10 G

£ s. d. Ale (bottled) S9 IS 0 Goods, weight 225 IS 5 Ad valorem.. 433 9 11 Other duties 0 4 0 Total .,£1317 11 2

Spirits .. 754 15 4 Cigftr-i .. 22 8 9 Tobacco .. SOT 0 0 Wine .. 122 1 10 Beer .. .. IBS 11 3 Tea .. .. 314 5 0 Coffee.. 6 12 0 Sugar .. . .. 273 i 9

Goods wght... 207 2 0 All valorem .. 1392 19 7 Other duties.. 130 13 0 Light dues. shipping, etc. 129 12 5 Total.. £3924 2 11