COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5414, 3 August 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following arc the diUlos collected at the Gastonia yesterday:,—

The amount of Customs duties received nt the port of Wellington for tho week ending Ist of August was £2095 Us. sd. Wo report no change in tho Import marko't during the past week, trade having; been quiescer.fc in the extreme, with a general disinclination to invest anything beyond immolate wants. Stocks *,f imported good* are, generally speaking, ample, air i large shipments are on the way from England. In colonial produce butter remains at last week’s rate, and is in only- moderate eng .fliy for export. Prime quality cure i» difficult to roor 0 In any quantity at lOd to 10 VtV. per lb. Caaterbur*/ cheese is in over supply, and vunaiils at 7d to7_id, per lb with very little doing. The sarno remark applies to haras and bacon <»notcd at 7d to Ud for now cure. Flour. —Tho price* ol Canterbury and Oarnarv. flour shows a drooping tendency in spite of Its pre//ont;low figure : sales of beat brands being reported., at £lO 10» per lon. Jioldoi*3 are quitting at £ll Xo £U ios per ton for trade lots. Grain.—Oats continue, high with only small lots corning forward, which nvro readily taken at that tigare If of good sample. C'uckwhea-. is in good demand at 4s lid. Maize.—Market overstocked, and didicult to move except in retail parcels, PFfMr. George Thomas reports produce prices as fol-lows-Flour, Adelaide. £l7 to £l7 30s; colonial, £ll IjS to £l2; oats. 4s fid; w’joat. 4s 3d: bran. Is Cd, and not a sack to be bad ; hams, 9d‘ bacon Sd-checse/7-id; pollard, Is jru ; maize, 5s Gil to 5s Ort; butter, lid; potatoes, £1 :i&, to £5. PF TELKOIiAI'H. , , , AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Alexander Barmd-ers reports;—Buyers: Bank of New Zealand, £23 15s ; Colonial Bank, WW; National Bank, 78s; New- Zealand Insurance, 80s; South

British, 70s; National Insurance, 27s ; Shipping. 80s, ex div,; Loan and Mercantile (new Issue), 67s 6d; Auckland Gas. £lol2s Gel; Kurunoi, 12s;Moonataiari, 575; Corby, 20s.

TIMARU, Friday. Wheat is not active, and is quoted as low as 3s lOd. Oats are in great demand at 3s lOd, and but little offering. Prime malting barley, 5s 3d, and scarce. The farmers still hold a large quantity of wheat.

CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. The wheat market continues dull. Sixteen thousand bushels were sold to local millers at a rate equal to 4s 6d at the mill. ’ (Millers’ stocks are light, and .considerable orders are* in hand. Flour, £ll 10s to £1210s; oats, barley, and other produce unchanged.

. £ 8. rtL £ n. d. Sp'nta .. .. 113 3d 11 Ate (bottled) . C 15 3 Wino .. .. 4 10 5 Weight . 35 8 2 Tobacco .. 51 5 0 Ad valorem . 210 8 CUrvra .. 27 « 0 Other duties . 10 7 n Tea 31 30 U Sugar .. .. 33 17 t ! Total .. £535 10 7