COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5610, 22 March 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tho following aro tho duties collected at tbo Customs yesterday:— £ 8. (I. £ id. Spirits.. .. 127 7 71 Ale (bulk) .. 7 JO 0 Wine .. ..14 0 Weight .. 49 8 9 Tobacco .. 13 15 01 Ad valorem ..116 12 1 Tea .. .. 10 13 11 Other duties .. 60 0 0 Sugar .. .. 9 7 11 Ale (bottled) .. 18 0 0 | Total .. £473 18 11 The amount of Customs duties received at this port for tho week ending March 20lh, 1879, was' as under £ s. d. £ s. xl. Spirits .. 838 9 5 Goods by Cigars.. ■ .. 63 3 9 weight .. 199 17 7 Tobacco .. 112 15 0 Ad valorem.. 1067 '2 8 Wine.. .. 194 11 3 Other duties.. 101 13 0 Doer .. ~ 177 7 0 Light dues, shlpTca .. .. 100 13 8 ping, Ac, ..149 0 4 Coffee.. .. 1 10 9 —— Sugar.. .. 99 18 2 £3lll 8 -1 We report Increased dullness in tho impor tirade of the past week as regards tho city, but there. is con sldorablo activity in the country and coastinf. trade, and although stocks continue rather in exf jess, and prices low, we lo k forward to a better state of things during tho next three months. , In colonial produce keg butter is in bettor demand, and first-class prime simples are worth, lod to 10}d pur lb. Canterbury cheese is in full s,upply at Bid. Bacon and hams aro scarce, there being no really good cure in tho market ; ordinary samples aro selling at SJd to Od per lb. Flour; Full stocita of Southern flour In dealers’ hands. Best brands of Oamaru mills aro quoted at £lO per ton for bakers’ lots, but there aro several parcels of doubtful quality offering at £8 10s pet ton. Adelaide Hour is becoming low in stock, and worth £ls per ton. The grain market exhibits little change from lost week’s quotations, ’ Oats are in full supply at 3s 6d. Wheat for fowls la demand at 4s 3d, and maize scarce at £s Gd per bushel. Potatoes are in moderate supply, and are worth £5 to £5 10s per ton. BY 'IKLEQJiAI'U. (pek muss aoe.voy). CHRISTCHURCH. Friday. Tho grain market is a shade weaker during the last few days, and speculation has somewhat slackened, probably owing to tho approaching half-yearly balance of several banking institutions. Wheat ranges from 3s OUI to3s del; oats, 2s 6d to 2s 10d; barley, 6s toss sd; flour. £9 to £10; bran, £5 ; sharps, £5 10s ; cheese, 8d; butter, lOd. , SYDNEY. Friday. Patna rice, £23; Adelaide wheat, 5s to 5s 3d ; Now Zealand wheat. 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; Adelaide flour unchanged: Now Zealand oats unchanged; candles, BJd; brandy, kerosene, and tobacco, unchanged. INVERCARGILL, Friday Businos continues sound, though quiet, wi.th a disposition to steadily improve. With regard to grain, the market is bate of both wheat and barley, and wo really cannot hazard a quotation on either. Oats aro in supply at from 2s 3d to 2s 6d, good quality at the latter figure; chaff is £6 ; oatmeal £l3 ; potatoes are £0; flour goes steadily Into consumption at £10; bran and pollard at £5 to £5 15s ; respectively, stocks are fully equal to requirements. Cornsacks are worth 9s, but this price leaves no margin to importers. For woolpacks tho 'season Is over. Seaming twine changes hands at Is Od ; cement brings 18s ; galvanised iron, from £27 to £29; per ton, according to brand ; and slates £l6 10s per thousand. In spiritsjnd malt liquor a fair business is done. Wo quote IF.nnessy’s brandy in case at 365, and bnlkat 10s od (in bond), and rates are firm, as incoming shipments are reported light; Ardeby whisky commanded 0s 6d, Glcnary, Cs 3d (in bond), DunvHle’s case 20s (in bdnd): Geneva case is in heavy stock, and worth for J.D.K.Z. 13s, Key brand Xls 6d (both in bond); Burnett's old tom realises 15s, Lemon Hart’s 10 o.p. rum, 4s 6d; Mauritius rum 3s 9d; Foster’s ale, 13s Od; , McE wan's do, 14s 6d; Tennant's do, lls. For stout wo quote—Cuinnes's’s 12s OJ, Johnson’s 12s. Bull Dog 12s Od, Pig 12s. In sugars a fair amount of business has been done, prices ranging from £29 for ration to £43 for No. 1 snow-' drop. Teas have brought from Is 2d to 2s 9d in bond. DUNEDIN. Friday. Business during tho past week -has been very dull, transactions being of a hand-to-mouth character. Quotations ns a rulo have not altered In tbo slightest. I’he money market shows a decided tendency towards easiness. Loans on mortgage which a few days ago ■ ouhl scarcely be done at twelve percent, are now -asily done at ti-n. and tlds is attributed to the loafing of the Victorian loan, whereby the banks ore instead of being borrowers will shortly bo mdors. We know that mortgages which a week ago mid not bo done at 12 per cent are now readllw • ken at 10 per cent. The only matter of commercial ur rector has been an auction Bale by Whitolaw r*nd i to-day, when the following prices were realisci’i , 0 cases diamond kerosene, old screw top, lid ; 250

cases salmon, at 7s 3d ; 60 bales Calcutta cornsacks, passed in at 7* 9d ; 5 cases Berwick's baking powder, at7aCd; 8 casks Day and Martin's blacking, pints, 6s Od ; do, paste, 4s 4d; carbonate of soda, 16a 9a; barcclona nuts, 15s 8d ; Keiller's pastilles. Ilia; Morton's assorted pickles, pints, 5s 9d ; do fresh herrings, 6s 9d.