COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5741, 23 August 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Sugar.. .. 210 13 9 Total ..£4039 3 1 We report dull trade during the past week, with no improvement in prices of imported goods. Stocks, already heavy, have been increased by the arrival of the Halcione from London, and the Ned White from New York, and it will be some time before prices improve in the face of further cargoes on the way, and the present monet try depression which just now hang* over the trading community. In colonial produce there is little change. Keg butter Is in better enquiry fo* local consumption, and prime samples are worth 12d. per lb ; inferior samples being sold at any figure from 4d. upwards. Cheese is worth from 7d. to 74d. per lb for Canterbury make, but is in little dem iml. Hams and bacon of th • new season’s cure are lightly stoked at Bd. to 9d, for Southern cure. Flour has shown an upward tendency, and is now held for £ll 10s. to £l2 per top, for best brands of Canterbury and Oamaru mills, in bakers' lots. Oats are in full supply, and prices have gone down ; sales at 2s. 7d. to 2s. 9d. per bushel having been effected. Fowl wheat in moderate s pply at 3s 6cl. Maize, little enquiry at 4s. 3d., stocks light. Potatoes have come in freely, and are quoted at 90s. to 100 s. per ton, for trad? lots. Green fruit, fairly slocked ; oranges, 10s. ; lemons, 14s. to 165.; and apples, 13s. to 14s. per case. BY IKLBGRAVh. AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. G. W. Binney reports :—Flour, £l2 ; Adelaide, £l4 10s; bran, £5 10s ; pollard, £6 10s; oats, 2s 9d ; heavy feed, 3s 3d: maize, 3s 9d; potatoes, £6; cheese, 6d; butter, lOd; hams and bacon, 9d ; onions, 2d. J. M. TAYLOK’S SHARiTREPOKT. Wellington, August 22, 1879.

The share market continues dull locally. Colonial Bank-* are slightly improv din quotations. Buyers at 40s„ cum dlv., and buyers of National Insurance at 20s. Other shares remain unaltered, but owing to the present depression there is little business doing.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday £ s. a. £ a. d. 72 17 4 Coffee.. .. 15 15 3 8 2 10 Weight .. 40 13 10 33 5 0 Ad valorem .. 759 1 10 Tea .. 27 10 G Other duties.. 114 18 0 401 7 3 Ale(bottled).. 35 1C 3 Total .. £1509 14 1 The amount of Customs duties collected at this port for the week ending August 21 was as under: — £ a. d, £ 8. d. Spirits 781 S 7 Goods by 23 11 11 weight .. 147 7 7 231 10 0 Ad valorem .. 1833 10 2 72 13 4 Other duties.. 208 16 9 127 2 G Light dues. Tea .. 122 16 8 shipping, &c. 166 0 7 Coffee.. 23 8 3

g a Company. Capital. a? y p <1 p, 0‘ £ £ £ s % 16 725,000 10 10 350 Union Bank of Australia 1,500,000 25 25 £54 16 National Bank of N. Z. 1,000,000 10 3i 62/(5 Colonial Hank of N. Z. 2,000,000 5 2 «/ New Zealand Insurance Co. 1,000,000 10 15 South British Insurance .. 1,000,000 20 2 50/ 15 National Insurance .. 1,000,000 10 10/ Standard Insurance .. 1,000,000 10 15/ 12/6 13 Union Insurance 2,000,000 20 15/ 13/ — Colonial Insurance .. 2,000.000 10 7/6 4/6 154 New Zealand L. and M. A.. 3,000,000 25 Zi 100/ New Zealand Shipping 100,000 10 h 70/ 10 Wellington Trust and Loan 200,000 10 b 5g 12 Bo. (2nd issue) 30,000 10 22 '6 28/6 — Wellington Gas 30,000 10 10 300/ 154 Do. (2nd issue) 20,000 10 2 42/ Wellington Public Hall .. 9,000 30 30/ 35/ 10