COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5439, 2 September 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tho following are the duties collects aS the Customs on Satur.Ja/:—■ £ 3 ,

nxi iBLEGRAPIi. AUCKLAND. SHARK. MA HKET. Oplt, OWN COK.r.KdPONDBNT.' AUCKLAND, 3lf Alexander Saunders reports;—Buyers. = National Xpstirapco, 2Jfi South British, 70s; Now >aland, BQs;.Union, 11s; Colonial Bank. 58s; National ll , SSj; Bank of New Zealand, £24; Auckland Gas. £lO Sat Sellers; Colonial Insurance, tJs Orl ; South British 72* 6-1; National Bank. 82s, Buyers; Corby, 15s; Alburn la, 4 8s. (pea IMIESd AOEKCV.) TIAIAIUJ, Saturday,

The grain market is quiet, and few transactions are » reported daring tho week Wheat, 3* lOd ; oats, 4a ; barley, Ch 3d: bran, £5 10s ; pollard, £7 10a; potatoes, £llos. THE LONDON" WOOL MARKET. Messrs. Jaeomb, Son, and Co. reported on July 4 as follows:- -The aec nd series of public sales of colonial i wools for tho current Tear began on May 14 and willi; close to-morrow. Of the total quantity sold nearly S& ‘ per cent, has been taken for foreign account. Alt Hi* close of these salsa there remain 43,000 bales of o’ stock, held over in first hands. Tho weakness ' , d edaoin price, which ruled during the first b' these auctions, have in moat instances been r removed since the short compulsory recer middle of the sales; the more peaceful war a ln . ,h ® cut by the Congress of Berlin, a slight p d’ects held in trade generally, and a growing conjr' aprovement supplies of any well-grown raorino col' «*u«aess that prove light for the remainder of this mialwonl must aay resusclatton of trade, haw year, if there is ments which have all tended tr £ boon tho eloForeign competition has V s bettor result, animated for any good parcel .} y bee ? very have been a llttlo Irrr ’, of fin® wool; prices close with a firm too* -gular, but tho sales values of the series. F«* at about tho sales tho better qualities L u 10 *o we *t point of these havs r covered Id to It* °f coarse and half-bred wools qua’Jtloi but llttlo : r V, 10 roll "' h , lower l!d per lb dearer: al’ i ourwl I " er l“o» are fully Id to found a brisk nw - ttno merino combing wools have ia t 0 2,1 buprovemcet, esS. fo ' f ’ otlth Wales french combing t'ee liv SbtT • J lambs-, especially the better qualf thronilitha' - n ln steady demand at high ratesall !S fi l v wlca. Capo and Natal snow white and fii?ih#iw /0 had a sudden recovery of fully Id to 2d . v a tb « very low values ruling In tho earlier «at»l greasies are Id to better, but washed V ib* ro,n cither country have not shared the lb ~b improvement. Importers have not yet fixed any "Major August sales. Many of our continental cusw .ner4 seem quite prepared for an early date. A Greatly-Improved market U reported at Antwerp for th American wools during the past month, a largo nr? having boon done at enhanced prices. I’ublic talef of ich will begin there on tho 17th instant. A i P* ® bales of Fernian and,low foreign wools i IrtUhfbjldb'ST'joa the 10th Instant. I

Satrlts •• • 5 £ 12a 1* d. 1 Wine .. 0 19 2 Cigars .. . 15 6 S Tobacco cs & Alo (bottled) 21 0, 3; Ale (balk) 5. 0. o.

Te& 2 10 0 .. 2 1 11 Afii valorem . 121 4 10 lOthcr daofeics 5 18 0 ■ Total £370 13 0