COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

West Coast Times, Issue 394, 29 December 1866, Page 2

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Wkst Coast Times Office, Friday Evening. The amount of import duty collected at the Custom House to-day was L 729 13s. Bd. The following list of merchandise cleared shows its distribution : —

We have very few transactions to note in the import market for the week, arrivals have been light, and the time-honored customs of the season having met with due attention, commercial matters have been necessarily to a considerable extent in abeyance. We have no alteration to chronicle in value of leading articles ; quotations would be precisely as our last. The wholesale houses during tho business days have been fairly employed with local trade, as a reference to customs' returns for the week will indicate; several assorted cargos have arrived towards the close of the week, and will, doubtless, give a more defined tone to the market when landed. Stocks are not looked upon as heavy, considering the present healthy state of trade on the West Coast.

Brandy £140 5 Whisky 22 19 jrcnera 18 0 Sweet Gin 10 17 Bitters 21 11 Wine 74 12 Beer (in wood) 50 0 Beer (in bottle) 34 15 Coffee 4 14 Sugar 46 13 Dobacco 69 15 Cigars 44 5 Provisions 67 18 Dilmen's stores 50 12 Joap 2 10 handles 6 13 Drapery 54 16 Drugs 8 13 £729 18