COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5209, 1 December 1877, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday:— £ b. <l. £ a. cl. Spirits .. 70 0 8} Weight 11 0 4 Wine.. .. 6 15 21 Ad valorem .. 23 8 0 Cigars,. .. 44 4 5 I .Sugar,. .. 0 3 7 Ale (bottled).. 5 0 0 Total .. £IOB 12 2j The Customs duties collected at the port of We!-} Ungton for the week ending November 29, wete as follows: £ s. (1, £ a. d. Spirits .. C 24 1C 7 I Goods by wght 112 18 10 Cigars.. 22 14 6 Ad valorem .. 270 10 10 Tobacco .. 227 7 0 Other duties.. 40 5 9 Wine 224 10 6 ! Light dues, Leer .. .. 00 13 9 1 shipping, etc. 88 4 1 Tea .. .. 10410 0 Coffee.. .. 0 15 0 Sugar.. .. 314 1 Oj Total ..£2172 17 9 Tiie following are the amounts of Customs’ duties collected at the port of Wellington during the month ending 30th November: — £ a. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 3500 1C 11 Coffee, cocoa, Cigars Sc Snuff 230 6 0 chicory, &c. 127 8 0 Tobacco .. 1085 19 3 Sugar .. .. 1581 13 7 Wlm C 57 3 10 Goods by wgfc. 1389 18 11 Ale, bottled.. 585 10 3 Ad valorem .. .4000 17 X Ale. bulk .. C 8 18 0 Other duties,. 474 7 1 Tea .. ~ 1278 19 0 Total £15.071 4 5 For the corresponding month of last year the total was £12.728 17s Bd. The import trade of the past week has shown little animation, and sales are restricted to retail wants for the moment. We report no change in quotations calling for comment. Candles are more in demand, as are also cornsacks, and sales of the former arc/oported ut 9Jd per lb to arrive, and of the latter ITs per dozen *, stocks in both cases light. Adelaide flour is quoted at £l7 per ton, with a drooping market, owing to the luv price at port of shipment. Cohoii.J. produce continues overstocked. Bacon and hams are in better demand, rind prime quality sells a* Bd and 9d per lb. Butter in kegs, no inquiry. Cheese overstocked, and unsaleable at 7d per lb, Flour market unsteady, and sales of Dunedin brands are reported at £l3 15s per ton. Holders are asking £IJ to £ls per ton for Canterbury and Oamaru mills ; but there is little doubt that prices must further give

way Grain—oats are in improved demand, and firm at 3s Oci per bushel; and as prices have made a considerable advance in the Australian colonics, we may look for higher rates hero, as stocks are light and the dry season portends short crops. Air G Thomas reports produce prices as follows : —Flour, Adelaide, £lB ; colonial, £l4 10s to £ls 10s; oats 3s 10s ; bran, Is; wheat,-4s Hd ; hams, S.J-il ; bacon, Sd ; cheese, 7il ; 'potatoes, £2; pollard, £7 ; maize, 4s Cd to 4s 9d ; butter, Od to 7d. BY TELEGRAPH. OAMARU, Friday. The weather is very dry, and unless rain comes soon largo areas of cereal crops will be seriously injured. , The grain and breadstuffs markets are quiet. Quotations are as follow:—Wheat, 4s lOd to 5s '3d per bushel; oats. 2s fld to 3s per bushel; barley, none ; flour, £ls to £ls 10s per ton; oatmeal, £l7 per ton ; pollard, £5 5s per ton ; bran, £3 5s per ton. DUNEDIN, Friday. Mr. Goldsbrough telegraphs from Melbourne The wool sales ate brisk. Up to date 55.000 bales have been sold. Greasy wools brought 8d to lujd ; clean washed, up to 30|jii.