Commercial.

Colonist, Issue 89, 27 August 1858, Page 2

Commercial.

THE NEW TARIFF. The following is the new Tariff for the Colony of New Zealand, proposed by ministers, and agreed to in committee of the whole House on the 30th nit., without alteration; but it will be sent home for approval before coining into operation :—

AUCKLAND. The New Zealamkr of the 21st instant, says :— The amount of Customs Revenue collected during the week ended the 14th instant was £753 103., being £353 : s. lid. of increase upon the previous week's receipts. Mr. \V. Hunter reports that owing to the very unsettled state of the weather, on Tuesday last, the attendance at the sale held by him at Newmarket was not as large, nor the number of cattle brought forward for sale as great us usual. The prices realised were about last week's quotations. Fat beasts brought from £12 12s. 6d. to £9 7s. 6d. Store stock sold from £7 2a. 6d. to £3 12s. Gd. A lot of steers averaged £9 each. Dairy cows brought from £6175. 6d. to £1.0103 A lot of sheep sold for 345. Gd.; another lot 30a. A horse sold for £21 12s. Gd.: and a mare for £50. Pigs brought from 335. to 13s. Gd. At the sale held by Mr. Alfred Bucldand at his yards on Friday, August 20th. there was « greater number of fat cattle, of scarcely so good quality as of late, but the prices realized were relatively fully equal to those of the past few weeks. Dairy cows sold freely, and there was an advance obtained. Store cattle, —a pair of working bullocks sold for £30 There was a fair supply of fat sheep with a good demand. Fat pijrs were in abundant supply and sold well. The Southern Gross of the 20th, reports as follows:— The Mills.—Thornton, Smith, and Firth's Avholesale prices : flour, fine, £20 per ton; seconds, £17 per ton; sharps, £10 per ton; bran, Is. 3d. per bushel; crushed wheat, 6s. 6d. per bushel.—Low and Motion's wholesale prices: flour, fine, £20; seconds, £17 per ton; sharps, £10 per ton ; bran, Is. 6d. per bushel.—• H. Partington : flour, fine £18 and £20; seconds, £!5 and £17 per ton ; bran, Is. 3d. to Is. Gd. per bushel; biscuit, cabin, 255., pilot, 225., ship, 20s. per 100 lbs.—Mr. Brigham's: flour, fine, £1S and £20; seconds, £15 and £17 par ton ; bran, Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. per bushel. Bread : 2 Ib. 'oaf, sd. to Gd. Building Materials.—Kauri timber boards and scantling, 163. per 100 feet, tongued and grooved £1 25.; shingles, 13s. to 14s ; palings. 153. ; bricks, £4 to £4 10s.; posts and rails, £3 ss. : WELLINGTON. The Independent of the 21st instant, reports:— The weather during the past ten days has been remarkub'y fine, mid, with the'arrival of two vessels from England (Maori and Harkaway) and the departure of the Westminster for England »nd Marchioness for Melbourne, have tended to make business exceedingly brisk. The Customs revenue for the week ended 14th ! August, amounted to £2587 17s. lid., making little less than £6000 in a fortnight. On Thursday, Messrs. Bethune and Hunter sold, at the Exchange * a large assortment of general merchandise, 'at the following prices:—China matting, from lOd. to lid. per yard ; American axes, 675. Gd. per dozen ; American one-day clocks, from 13s. Gd. to 14s. each, eight-day do. 275. do.; do. tub?, 31 s. to 325. per nest; do. buckets (3-hooped), 275. to 2Sp. par doz.; o;itmeal, in casks, 4Jd. to 4kl. perlb.; mgo, 6,jd. do; tea, in chests, £8 10s. to ~£d ; pepper, 7d. to Bd. perlb.; cane-seated chairs, ss. 3d, to ss. 6d. each ; men's watertight boots, Bs. to 9s. per piir; calico tents, 235. to 50s. each; soap, 4Gs. to 475. Gd. per cwt.; pearl barley, 4d. per lb., &c, &c. ' Gold.—We notice as shipped per Westminster, from Wellington, 1500 ounces of gold dust, being the produce of the Nelson gold fields.

. : £::$. d. 1. Coffee, chicory, cocoa, and chocolate the 1b. 0 0 3 2. Cutlery, hardware, plated ware, holloware, ironmongery of all sorts, and candles ■ and soap of all sorts, the cwt 0 3 0 3. Manufactures'of silk, cotton, linen, and woollen, and all articles manufactured therefrom, drapery, haberdashery, hosiery, millinery, hats, boots, shoes, dried fruits (except nuts of all kinds), mustard, olive oil, salad oil, pickles, . preserves, bottled fruits, sauces, and spices of all kinds (measuring outside the packages), the cubic foot 0 4 0 4. Spirits and strong waters of every kind, sweetened or otherwise, of any strength - not exceeding the strength of proof by Syke's Hydrometer, and so on in proportion for any greater strength than the strength of proof, the gallon .... 0 9 0 5. Sugar, raw and refined, of all kinds, and treacle, imd molasses, the lb .. 0 0 1. 6. Tea.thelb 0 0 4