COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5402, 20 July 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday £ a. d. - £ 8. d. Spirits ~ m 0 10 I Ale (bottled) ~ 7 5 0 Wine .. .. 22 3 3 Weight .. 00 2.4 Cigars .. .. 17 12 GI Ad valorem ..455 9 0 Tea .. ~ 3G 15 0| Coffee .. .. 510 0} Total.. £O9O 12 11 The amntfuts of Customs duties received at the port of Wellington for the week ending the 18th of July were as under • £ s. c!. £ s. d. Spirits .. 914.18 1 Goods by'wgt. 330 12 Cigars,. 92 !3 0 Ad valorem.. 3087 1 4 TobAcco ..1328 5 0 Ollier duties.. 29114 10 Wine.. .. >32 (» 0 Light dues, Leer .. .. 380 13 0 shipping, &c. 138 10 ’ C Tea .. .. 845 13 -0 Sugar.. .. 75 7 0 Total .. £7017 711 The import trade of the past week lias been dull in the extreme, and with wo change of sufficient iraportane'e to call for comment. Large quantities of goods are being received into stock from the five HngTlsh ships now discharging at the wharf, and fur some time to come ourmarket may bo considered over supplied when the vessels on the way out are taken Into account. Prices of all imported goods «eraain low, varying little from recent quotations, and with au Inc cased downward tendency. In colonial produce we report no improvement in butter, cheese, and bacon. There exists a fair demand for these articles, but buyers evince no disposition to increase their limits. Flour, both C mterbury ami Oiintni. lias gone lower owing to'the large stocks in hand here and the low prices ruling throughout the colony. We quota be t brands at £ll 10s to £ll 15s par ton for sacks In trade lota, bran continues scarce, and Is worth Is 5d to Is Gd per biuhel. Pollard in fair enquiry at £7 per ton. Feeding grains continue In active demtnd, and oats have advanced in value within the week to 4s 9d per bushel for prime milling oats. Ordinary feed, 4s Gil to 4» 7d per bushel. Chiekwheat Is in fair demand at U 3d. Malza is low In stock,'And sells readily at Cs. .Potatoes, low stocks, at 75t to 80s per ton. BY TKhEORAVn. AUCKLAND ail\l£/3 MARKET. fcKOtf 0011 OWN COItUKSPOKOKNT.) ■ , AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr Alexander Saunders reports;—Uuyurs: Colonial *lVuik. 65j ; National bank, 78i: Ba >k of New Zealand, £23 IDs; South British, G 3-»; National Insurance, 20s 6d; shipping. 80s; Loin and Mercantile (new). G7s,od; Corby, 30s; Alburnm, 48s; MonnatalarJ, 00s. (FUlt FUJMS AaKNCV.) . V AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Buckland reports the prices of fat cattle lower than la t week. A t the opening best quality realised 37a Gd per lOOlbs; at the dose the price fell to 34a. Fat sheep are unusually unmerms : twelve hundred wsresoUl, and prices improved as he sale proceeded. Towards the close an advance of < carl- one halfpenny vms obtained over those sold earlier in the du’y- Prices for owes ranged from 2}d to 2}d ; lambs, 4d; pigs were la a limite<l number. oml of indifferent quality.