COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5586, 22 February 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tho following aro the duties collected at the Customs yesterday £ s. (1. X ». d. Spirits .. .. 312 4 3 I Ale (bottled) .. 15 12 6 Wine .. .. 10 1 0 Weight .. 15 2 0 Tobacco .. 21 5 01 Ad valorem .. 71 8 0 Tea .. .. 10 S 1 Other duties .. 20 0 6 Cigars .. .. 10 10 3 —~ Sugar .. .. IS 11 0 I - Total £353 10 4 The amount of Customs duties received at this port for the week ending February 20tb, 1879, was as under X s. d. £ s. d. .Spirits .. 732 1 5 Goods by Cigars.. .. 14 0 0 weight .. 150 13 8 Tobacco .. 313 10 0 Ad valorem .. 911 3 1 ‘Wine.. .. 120 12 0 Other duties,. 100 17 0 Ale .. .. 173 12 0 Light dues, ShipTea .. .. 173 9 0 ping, Ac, .. 31 14 3 Coffee.. .. 13 8 0 ' Hugar.. .. 130 10 7 £3llO 7 3 We report no improvement in tho import trade during the past week, and general complaints of dullness exist in every department. Stocks aro heavy, and in the face of large shipments coming forward we fear importers will suffer, ({notations are in most cases lower than those in our monthly report, but tho desire to realise renders it difficult to give anything like a correct value, as so much depends on the exigencies of tho seller. in colonial produce there is little doing, and the retail dealers aro keeping down stocks in anticipation of low rates. Keg butter is neglected, and bar iy saleable at !)d; Canterbury choose in moderate supply, and worth SJd per lb tor a fair sample: bacon and hams d ill at Sd to Od per lb. Flour—There has been no material improvement in colonial Hour during tho week, and prices remain at £0 10s to £lO 10s per ton, according to brand. Stocks can hardly bo said to be heavy, but anticipations of forced sales down South chock any advance hero. Adelaide flour moves off In small parcels at £l4 to £ls per ton. (!rain~Oats are easier, and sales are reported at 3s id to 3a 5d ; holders quote 3s Od to 3s 91, according to quality Other grains are unaltered, with the exception of maize, which is in very short supply and is soiling at lis Cd per bushel Potatoes are much wanted, ns stocks in dealers hands arc insignificant; prices range from £7 10s to £8 per ton, at which figures a considerable quantity could bo placedJ. M. TAYLOR’S SHARE REPORT. Wellington, February 21, 1879.

Quotations for shares continue depressed, in consequence of the pressure on the money market, but hohlc s are in most cases unwilling to sell at the reduced rates, and few sales como under notice. Wo have buyers for hank and insurance shares at a tritle under current rates. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKL.fND SHARE MARKET. (rr.oM ovn oner cobbwposoest.) AUCKLAND. Friday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports:—oilers: bank of Now Zealand, £11). new issue; Colonial, 6Ss 6d; National bank, 70s: New Zealand Insurance, BSs: South British, oSs: Union Insurance, 13s Cd: Auckland Has, £9 : Bash and Door. £9 ss. Buyers : National Bank, tkia; South British. iSi ; Kurunui Hill. Os : Alburnia, 19s.

(pen pnnsa acik.vcv.) DUNEDIN. Friday. Business during the week lias been quiet, and much hindered hy holidays on Wednesday and to-day. The Customs receipts from Monday to Friday, inclusive, were £7002, of which £s4oti was collected on drapery and sundries. Operations in all goods are confined to consumers* purchases. At-auction Sunbeam corrugated iron brought £24 10s all round. Ilennessy’s. dull, scarce, and firm at last quotations. Cement, improving: parcels to arrive to be sold at 19s. In whisky, rum, geneva, and schnapps little doing; first brands scarce and in demand. Tennoul’s quarts, Foster’s Bulldog, Me Ewan’s quarts, quite out of first Hands. The woolmirkct is quiet: nothing anticipated before sales early in March, Wheat, dead; new grain not appearing ; operations nil : quotations merely nominal. Have heard of offers of Northern at 3 s fur some few parcels of new grain. Feed oats changed h inds at "Js; samples generally good. Barley in demand, but very scarce ; quotations, 5a BJ to Us for malting.. 1

INVEKCAIIOILL, Friday. Business has been somewhat dull during the weok. Flonr is without alteration in valno, and goes quietly into the hands of tho trade at £lO to £lO 10s per ton : brin W,; pollard, £5 153 at the mills. Stocks of all

kinds of breadstuff* aro fully adequate to requirements. Sales have{bo«n effected of Guinness stout at 13s; Tennant's ale at Ills; port wine (throe grapes), at £L3 per quarter-evik ; Hennery's case brandy at 3^s. aud do bulk at 10i Art. The harvest has commenced In the oarly parts of tin district but it will not become general for a week or ten days, OHKIdrCJIGRCtf, There is m Improvement noticeable in the grain mirket, wheat remaining at 3< to 3s 3d, wlt-i limited onq dry; ojilk. Cd to 2«0d; barley, Os; flour, £8 10s to £0 ; cheeae, 7jd; butscr, lid ; hams ana bacon, 8* J, " SYDNEY, FrM*y. Bran y—llonnossy’s case. S3* 6:1; Heoucs*/ a r i tors, 9s 3 . Kerosene -Devoe's and Diamond, U 3. Klca-Patn , £25. New Zoa'anrt wheat ana oats—none in market. Tobacco— Raven s twist, lx 6J t 0 18 7 ' l A 1 ELAIDE, Friday. Town flour, CI2 to £l2 10; wheat, ss.

Company. Capital. A ■J3 1 Amount | paid up. | Quotations. T3 •d £ £ £ H L»ank of Now Zealand • • l>o new imne 725,000 10 10 300/ 300is 1,500,000 1.000.000 £00 10 10 3* 07/ 0 2,000,000 1.000.000 5 2 50/ 7 New Zealand Instmvnco Co. 10 2 70/ 15 1,000,000 2 00/ T.5 1,000,000 10 10/ 2V 20 Htamlaril Insurance .. 1,000,000 10 15/ w 134 2,000,000 — Colonial Insurance .. 2.000.000 10 7/6 0/G — Now Zealand L. and M. A.. 3.000,000 ej Mow Zealand Shipping’ 100.000 10 r> 30/ — "Wellington Trust r.ml Loan 200,000 51 Do. (2nd issue) ■Wellington (las 30,000 10 22'0 23/0 — . 30,000 10 10 340/ 15 20,000 10 03/ Wellington 1’ublic Hall .. Te Aro Theatre 0,000 30 30/ 35/ 10 10.000 10 5 h — West Wanganui Coal 50,000 5 15/ — —