COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5516, 30 November 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Cus« toms yesterday:—

The amount of- Customs duties received at this port for tho week ending November 23,1878, are as follows

Very little business has been doing during tho post week, la consequence of the excitement of electioneering matters ; nor is there any material change In the quotations for imported goods calling for comment. In colonial produce, keg butter is quite neglected, and although nominally quoted at Sd per lb, we bear of no sales at that figure. Bacon and bams are in moderate supply at 8d to B}d per lb (Canterbury euro). Cheese dull, at 8d to Bjd per lb. Flour is overstocked, and best brands of Canterbury and Oamaru mills are almost impossible to place except In retail lota, at £lO to £lolos per ton ;wo hear of sales at £olss per ton. Crain remains at last week's rates; bran, Is Cd per bushel; pollard, £7 per ton; potatoes scarce, and worth CSs per ton. BY TKLEGHAI'H. (i’JIOM OVX'. OWN COIIRKKrONDKNT.) AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports Sellers: Now Zealand Insurance, 85s; South British, 07s; National. 27a Cd; Union, ICs; Colonial Cs Cd; Bank of New Zealand. £23 10s; Colonial, 52s Cd : Auckland Gas, £lO 2s Cd; Sash and Door, £lO ss; Guthrie and .Larnach, 03s; Alburnla, 21s; Queen of Beauty, 4s; Kuruoui Hill, 8s Cd. (ran rnEss agency.) CimiSTCiIUBCII, Friday. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s Cd; oats forfeed, 4s 3d; barley, none in stock: hams and bacon, Bjd; butter, Od to lOd; flour, £lO to £l3. Inquiries are made for wheat for shipment. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr, Alfred Buclcland quotes Beef, 25s to 37s per 1001 b; draught horses in demand; sheep well competed for; lambs sold well; pigs brought higher prices. Share Market—Current quotations; Bank of Now Zealand, £23 3a 8d: National, 775; Colonial, 555; Loan and Mercantile, Uss; New Zealand Insurance, 85s; Southßrltlah Insurance, CBs; National, 28s; Standard, 225; Union, 10s; Auckland Timber Company, 120 s; Guthrie uud Larnach, 00s. INVERCAIEOILL, Friday. Produce prices:—Oats, good to ordinary feed, 3s Od Z» 7d; good milllng, 3s Od to 4s: market bare of good sorts ; chaff, £0 10s; oatmeal, £2O: wheat, better kind scarce, and worth Is 3d; fowl feed, from 3s to 8s Cd: pollard, £5 10s to £0; bran, £5 10s; potatoes, £0 (old),

Spirits wine .. 45 C 5 Weight „ 33 6 0 84 13 8 Ad valorem 18 0 5 Tobacco .. 1C7 2 6 Other duties .. 40 18 0 Tea ,,0 6 0 Sugar .. 102 11 6 Ale (bottle!) C18 0 Total .£-103 15 1

£ 8. d. £ 9. d. Spirits 775 0 1 Weight .. 290 12 7 02 4 8 Ad valorem . 037 7 11 Tobacco 233 8 9 Other duties.. 150 11 9 "Wine Beer .. 07 18 5 41 13 4 Light dues, shipping, &c. 133 4 9 Tea Coffee.. Sugar.. 02 U 0 1 10 3 100 8 7 Total .. £2939 3 7