COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5783, 11 October 1879, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

. amo ! mt ° i . Cu l tr ,ms duties receive fl at Ibis port for the week ending r , c t o i)erber S was as under

Small signs of improvement in trade have been shown daring the past week, but generally matters remain much the same as has been the case for some time past, and greater activity must be evinced before the present feeling of doubt and distrust is overcome. We note no change in prices, which rule as low as possible. Some slight improvement in the present rates for brandies should be manifest, owing to the failure of the supply in Europe, but, our bonded stocks being heavy, the effect is not yet apparent. In colonial produce trade continues dull, and prices of all descriptions of grain and produce are a shade lower. Oats to the extent of 2500 sacks were sold by auction at 2s 31 to 2s Cd per bushel on Tuesday last, with terms at three months. Flour continues Arm at the advance noticed in our last report, and is now worth £l2 10s to £l3 per ton for best Oamaru and Canterbury mills. Keg butter dull at lOd to 12d per lb. Bacon and hams, light stocks of Southern euro at aid to 9dper lb. Canterbury cheese in moderate demand at 7ld to Sd per Ih. Barley, malting is worth G* per biudiel: maize. 4s, heavy stocks: bran dull, Sd per bushel, little or no sales; pollard in fair demand at £G to £6 10s; potatoes, fair stocks in importers* hands, at 110 s to 120 s per ton. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND, FridayMr. W. F. Buckland reports Fat Cattle.—Prices were something lower than last week, and best quality ranged from 32s to 35a per 1001 b. Fat sheep in usual quantity, and generally of superior quality. Price-ad-vanced to 3d for prime sheep in their wool, shorn per lb. Mr. Geo. W. Binnoy reports:—Sales still very quiet, but got rid of a few lines at the following rates Adelaide flour, £l4; Canterbury do, £l2; oatmeal, 15s; pearl barley, 25s ; oats, from 2s lOd; pollard, 6s; cheese. S\d; potatoes, 6s to 7s; butter, good. Sd to l)d : hams and bacon, Sid, bare; do in cloth, 9d to lOd.

Spirits Cigars Tobacco B ~ \-227 s. d, 3 £ 8. d. Weight .. 274 7 11 * ’ 117 9 1 Advalorem.. 1129 7 10 .. 730 0 Other duties 20S 14 o 14 7 Light dues. Tea , Coff' • .. 11)9 15 .. 219 11 34 10 0 0 0 shipping, &c 127 16 Jjir .gar 134 18 0 Total ..£4500 11 0