COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5296, 16 March 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday;— ,

The amount of Customs duties collected at this port for the week ending March 14 was as under: —

The arrival of the Benvenue and Gainsborough from London, and now discharging at the wharf hero, added to our already overstocked market, and consequently prices of all descriptions of imported goods aro greatly in favor of bnyevs. Trade is dull and sale limited to current wants- . , , Mr. G. Thomas sold by auction on the 14th instant the following goods:—Half-pint salad oil. 5s 6(1; pints. 9s Gd per dozen: Price’s sperm candles. lOd perlb; Bell and Black’s vestas. 5a 4d per gross: 51 m-chests tea, Is Id to Is 3d per lb in bond; boxes do. 19s each; 20 hf-chesfcs tea (d p), Is 3d; 10 cases brandy, los 6d m bond; 10 cases. Booth’s old tom, 15s; 2 qr-casks Yglesia sherry, ss; 2 do Forresters port. 6s per gallon; 10 cases Louis Renorf’s champagne, 35s per In colonial produce there is little change in quotations from last week’s reports. Butter is dull, and meets with little inquiry for export: prime cure can not be quoted higher than 7Ad to Sd per lb for ship ping parcels, although small trade lots are quoted at Sid per lb for local consumption. Cheese, bacon and J hams, are unaltered, with little trade doing. Flour is quoted at £l3 to £l3 10s per ton. for. best brands of Oamaru and Canterbury mills, in sacks, the general impression being that lower rates must necessarily rule, now that peace in Europe is assured. Adelaide Hour is selling at £lB per ton, with a downward tendency, a cargo being about due, which will interfere with present values Oats meet with steady demand, and maintain last weeks rates. Prime Quality mining oats are worth 4s 3d to 4s Cd per bushel for old. The new crop has not yet come fairly into market, but owing to the high price of maize in Australia, there is little doubt that prices will be well sustained here, especially as the crops down South are said to be light Maize is in good demand at Gs to 0s 3d. Mr. George Thomas reports produce prices as follows:—Flour, £l3 to £l3 10s for colonial, £l7 10s for Adelaide; oats, old, 4s 3d to 4s 6d, in ready demand; bran. Is 2d, scarce; wheat. 4s; hams, Sid to 9d, market overstocked; cheese, 7d, in demand, for prime samples; potatoes, 4s lOd to sslod; maize, 5s 3d to 5s 6d. with an upward tendency; pollard, £5 16s to £0; butter, lOd; bacon, Sd, market overstocked. BY IELEORAPH. ' OAMARIT, Friday. There is very little business doing in grain at present. Millers refuse to give more than 4s, and the farmers are not satisfied with this price, and are holding back in expectation of obtaining 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; oats, 3s to 3s 3d; barley, nominal; flour, £ll 10s to £l2; oatmeal, £8; pearl barley, £2O; pollard, £5; bran, £4, CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. Wheat is firm at ss: oats, 3s to 3s 3d; barley, 4s Gd to ss; flour, £l3 to £l4; bran, £4 10s; sharps, £5 10s; cheese, CJd. , ~ . The Customs duties collected here from the 31st December to date, amount to £53,703 14s Sd. The duties collected to day was £4038 4s lid, £2148 of which was paid bv Messrs. P. Cunningham and Co, on 300 bales of sacks from Calcutta. The total imports of sacks from Calcutta for the season amount to over 9000 bales to Lyttelton direct. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. (from opn own correspondent. ) AUCKLAND. Friday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports;—Buyers: Bank of New Zealand, £23 15s; Loan and Mercantile Company, new issue, GOs; National Bank, 735; National Insurance Company. 82s: standard Insurance Company. 235: Auckland Gas Company, £lO. Sellers: South British Insurance Company, 7Ss; New Zealand Insurance Company, 955; AUmrnia, 555; Beach, 21s.

3 3 £ cl. •- £ s. a. 101 12 9 Coffee.. M 18 6 G 4 Goods by wgt. 102 6 21 10 0 Ad valorem .. 400 Cigars.. 12 4 5 Other duties.. 25 0 0 Tea 20 1 0 Sugar,.. 20 D (i Ate, bottled.. 60 7 G Total £S34 4

* £ 5. d. £ s. d. Spirits .. 848 19 9 Goods by ‘Wgnt. 101 13 I .. 174 12 7 Ad valorem .. . 350 2 6 Other duties-. 240 13 Wine .. .. 99 11 6 Light dues. Beer .. .. 142 10 3 shipping.&c> 225 6 3 Tea .. ,. 104 19 0 .. 0 0 0 Sugar .. .. 518 7 9 Total .. £3904 12 11