COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5641, 29 April 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are tho duties collected at the Customs yesterday;— £ 8- d. £ 8 . a. Spirits .. 82 6 0 Weight .. 25 1 5 Tobacco .. 76 10 0 Act valorem .238 16 9 Cigars .. 0 10 Other duties,. 27 13 0 Tea .. 35 13 8 - Sugar., .. 87 6 S Total ..£572 15 3 MELBOURNE MARKERS. Messrs Gohlabrough and Co’s weekly report, dated Melbourne. April 16, Is as follows: Wool, —There a very little business doing, the quantity coming forward being limited, and confined chiefly to fellraongcrs' sorts. Prices remain about the same. Sheepskins.—Wo have passed through a moderate supply during the past week, and report a steady market. The holidays have, of course, somewhat restricted business, but all descri tions found purchasers at quotations. Butchers' green pelts realised up to 2s fid each ; do dry do, 2s each ; dry skins, inferior to medium, from 3d to 5d per lb; do, medium to superior, 5d to Cd per lb. Hides.—Largo'fresh hides have found a firm market, but salted h*ve been in rather poor request Current rates, although low, are steady. Ox hides, average sizes, realise from 15s to 24s each : cow hides do, 10* to 14s each; Victorian salted, 2jrt to 3id per lb; New Zealand do, 3d to del perlo. Calfskins are in very limited demand, and can be quitted in small, picked parcels only; 2d per lb is tho average ruling quotation. Kangaroo Skins.—Only large, gffresh. Iwell-condi-Moncd skins are saleable, at prices ranging up to lOd >cr lb : inferior parcels are almost unsaleable at pro•ortionately low rates. Tallow.—Our usual Tuesday's sale did not take •lace yesterday, being postponed until the 22nd Snfit. i account of the holidays. There is a fair iuqu'iry r local consumption, forward to a e»dy market. Wheat.—At our sale to-day wo -■ ig*. There was a good attendance of buyerj and

brisk competition, and wc obtained full rates for seed, 60 bags " Frampton" realising 5s 2d : ml bags prime seed, grown near Ilochesto-, 6s; and 60 Dags grown near Inglewood, 4s lid per bushel. We also sold a line of 1000 bags good milling at 4s 8d per bushel. Wo sold at auction and by private contract 2259 bags at the following priceslSeed, from 4s lid to 6s 2d ; prime milling, 4s 8d t» 4s 9d j medium to good, 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; and Inferior, 3s (5d to; 4s,ld pet bU Oatsi—Since our last report we notice a slight decline in price, and we quote :—Good feed, at 3s 6d to 3s 7d ; medium to good. 3s 2d to Ss 3d; Inferior, 2s 8d to 2s lid : and prime seed to 2sJlod per buahel. flTo day we soid 136 bags. • Flour.—Good country flour Is worth £lO 5s per ton. Bran is very scarce ; we have sold several parcels at 15d per bushel. . Barley. Owing to the scarcity of this cereal extreme rates are obtainable, and wo quote 7s for prime malting, whilst 0s to 0s 6d is being realised for medium, 6s 6d for Inferior, and 3s Cd to 3s 7d for Cape. Peas.—We sold 135 bags at fromJ3sßd to 3s Od per bnshel. Eye.—Wo obtained for an inferior pared 3s Sdjper bushel.