COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5657, 17 May 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Tho following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday Spirits .. 201 Oil Weight .. 39 12 0 Tobacco .. 0 10 6 Other duties.. 9 0 0 Wine., .. 0 0 0 Ad valorem., 40 12 11 Peer .. .. 2 10 0 ■ Tea .. .. 710 3 Total .. £3OO 17 6 Tho amount of Customs duties collected at this port for tho week ending May 15 were as follows Spirits 878 0 1 Weight •• 60 211 Cigars.. .. 9 0 2 Ad valorem., 353 7 7 Tobacco .. 323 9 6 Other duties.. 97 17 10 Wine.. .. 02 15 2 Light duos, Beer .. ~ 85 10 0 shipping, &o 120 410 Tea .. .. 100 10 4 Coffee.. .. 20 1 9 Sugar.. .. 100 13 0 Total ..£2356 19 8 Th*ro has been literally no trade doing during the past week beyond the current wants of the rotall-r, and In most instances sales are restricted to cash. The suspen ions among the smaller traders have been numerous, but in most cases tho men have been struggling on in hopeless Insolvency for some months past, ami at the end of the present depression their absence from the commercial world of Wellington will be esteemed a benefit. Our quotations fo»* imported goods under tho present state of affairs remain nominally at last week's rates, but the desire to realise ton a greatly In favor of tho buyer for cash,and makes it dlHlcnlt to quote exact prices. Colonial produce of all descriptions is equally affected by tho state of monetary matters, and low prices are the consequent result. At auction on Tuesday, Christchurch wheat sold at 2s 8d per bushel; cheese, 7<l per ib ; potat e , £5 12i Od per ton ; flour, £7 15s per >‘>n; jams, Johnson'sand Peacock's br nds, 7s per dozen : candles, Sd per lb; tea, In boxes, d p.. 17h Cd. &c. Ac We quote present rafos for butter, lid to Is for extra prime cure in kegs; Canterbury cheese, 7d to 8d per.lb: bacon and hams, no first quality in this market, ordinary cure is selling at 8d t"* 101 per lb, stocks very light; oats difficult to move at 2a lOd to 3s per bushel; maize dull at 4s 3d tolaCd; Christchurch whoit, 3s to 3s Id; milling do, 4a: flour, £0 15a per ton for best brands of Oamaru, but sales are being made dally at much lower rates for less favored brands; potatoes, £5 10s to £6 11s 6d per ton. MELBOURNE MARKETS. Messrs Goldsbrough and Co's weekly report, dated Melbourne. April 30, is as follows: . Wool.—We held a small auction to-day, and sold 215 ba'es at about similar rates to those lately ruling, any alteration in value being In favor of buyers. The bu k of the catalogue consisted of oddments, in inferior condition, for which biddings were not brisk; but tho scoured parcels, especally tho merino'descriptions, wore in fair demand at market rates, one lot of good country scoured realising up to la 4Jd per lb. Cmsibred sorts aio difficult to sell, oven at greatly reduced prices.

Sheepskins.—lVo report a steady market, ant 1 cleared out a moderate supply during tlie wo*’. .1 quotations. Butchers’ green pelts realised • 2; cnoli; do dry do, 2s each ; dry skins, In* , u ?„ „„ dimn, from 3d to 4jd per lb; do, w' . -a«ri°P to mo4Jd to Cd per lb. -alum to superior, Hides—rho tone of till' reported, green hides <• at II rm rates, an' 1 Calfskins. If f' lb. Ox v each

market continues as Inst jt largo sizes finding ready sale . tailed being still difficult to quit. .00 from cuts, are saleable up to 2Jd per ..idea, average sizes, realise from 15s to 25s cow hides, do, from 10s to Us each ; Victorian ~ued, from 2id to 3Jd per lb: New Zealand do. nominal, are worth up to Id per lb. Kangaroo Skins.—Large, fresh, well-conditioned skins are saleable up to lOd per lb ; inferior and medium lots are scarcely saleable at from 4d to Od We submitted a full catalogue at auction yesterday, the bulk of which was quilted at quotations. We quote :—Jlutlon. superior, up to £29 1?8 Od per- ton ; do, average, from £27 to £29 per ton J beef, from £26 to £2B per ton : mixed, from £2l to £2O per ton ; inferior, from £l7 to £2l per ton. Wheat.—At our sale to-day wo catalogued 1896 bags. Them was a good attendance of buyers, and brisk competition, and we obtained full rates for seed white Tuscan ss. We also sold a line of 1100 bags privately, all sorts (smutty oxce ted), at 4s 7d per bushel, thus making our total sales at suction and by private contract 3'36 bags, at the following prices : Heed, from 6s to 5s 3d ; prime milling, 4s 9d to 4s 10Jd ; medium to good, 4s 3d to 4s 8d ; and inferior, from 3s 71d to 4s per bushel. Oats.—Since our last report we notice a firmer tone in the market, owing to the higher rates ruling for h y and chaff, and we quote :—Hood feed. 3s 6d to 3s 3d: medium to good, 3s 3d to 3s fid; and inferior, to 3s 2|d for best Victorian; and for best New Zealand, 3s 3d to 3s Od; and milling up to 4s per Good country flour Is worth from £lO fis to £lO 7s Cd; and town-milled, £lolos sterling. Bran.— Wo sold this day about 1900 bushels, at Is 3Jd to Is 4id p r bushel. Should the present wet weather continue, the rates now ruling are not Ukely to be maintained. , ... Barley —Owing to the scarcity of this cereal, extreme rates are obtainable. We quote 7s 6d for prime, Cs GJ t ■ 7s medium to good, and 6s for inferior malting ; for good Cape, 3s Od is obtainable.

BY ZELBGItArn. DUNFDIN, Friday. Stock quotations Colonial Bank, 41s; Bank of New Zealand, £18; National Bank, 07s ; National Insurance, 20s, cum div; New Zealand Insurance, 673 6d ; South British, 52« ; Standard Insurance. 15s; National Mortgage, 19s 6d ; Westport Colliery Company, 255.

X M. TAYLOR’S SHARE REPORT. Wellington, May 16, 1879

n Company. Capital. i 3 p 1 4s i U s t <y 5 £ £ £ B % Bank of New Zealand 725,000 10 10 3C0’ 15 355> 1.500,000 25 25 £60 16 National Bank of N. Z. 1,000,000 10 08/ G Colonial Hank of N. Z. 2,000,000 44/ New Zealand Insurance Co. 1,000.000 10 2 60/ 15 South British Insurance .. 1,000,000 20 1,000,00C 1C 10/ 19/ Standard Insurance .. 1,000,000 10 15/ 14/ 13J Union Insurance 2,000,000 20 15/ 13/ — Colonial Insurance .. 2,000.000 10 7/6 4/ — New Zealand L. and 31. A.. 3,000,000 25 ■A 4? 15 New Zealand Shipping 100.000 10 t, mi 10 'Wellington Trust and Loan 200,000 10 5 5j 125 Do. (2nd issue) 30,000 10 22'6 28/6 Wellington Gas .. 30,000 10 10 300/ Do. (2nd issue) 20,000 10 2 42/ Wellington Public Hall .. 9,000 30 30/ 35/ 10 To Aro Theatre 10,000 10 5J West Wanganui Coal 50,000 6 16/ — — There have been inquiries for shares from both N rth and South, but the local demand Is very slight. The desire to realise is becoming more evident. although holders are disinclined to accent present rates. Buyers of Bank of New Zealand at *■17 12s Cd; South British at 6U ; sellers of Colonial Insurance at 4a 9d, buyers at 4s 3d ; sellers of National Insurance at IDs 6d, buyers at IDs 3d: The present monetary pressure is not without its influence on the share mariert. ard many holdera who have bought only for Investment will have to realise at market rates