COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 6951, 10 July 1886, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The amount ol revenue colleoted at the Custombouse on goods cleared to-day for soflsumption was L 880163 lid.

(We can only report a modera'e badness in the import market during the week. In sugars, the tone of the market is not satisfactory to importers. On Monday the shipment cf Queensland ex Gael was offered at auction, and the 'entire cargo was cleared at prices that may be considered on the whole to full market rate. Current ■ quotation for Mauritius snowdrop is L 22 10s; whites, L2l 10s to L 22; and greys, LSI. Yellows out of the market. In tea there is practically nothing doing, the trade .holding back for the new season's, by the Tamsoi, which will be here about the middle of next week. Dried fruits continue firm. Currants are selling at 6Jd; sultanas, <gd; elemes, 6}d; capes, up to 6J. In fob, the only line'noticed is salmon, which is low in stock. The few small parcels offering bring 8a 3d to 8s 6d. Sardines move slowly at • 8s to 8s 3d for halves, and 6s for quarters; ling, SJd. Ale and stout have only been dealt in to a limited extent Stocks are heavy, especially of the latter line. An average business is passing in spirits. . Sales of candles are reported,: paraffin fluted up to 8d and plain up te 7|d; De Roubaii Jenars are got rid of up to BJd. The market is we 1 supplied with salt, soda crystals, and whiting, with only small sales being made. Coarse castor oil has been placed up to Se Id. Patna rio, Ll9. Bops have met with notice, and an advance has been established in Nelson of folly a penny. Messrs Wilson, Harraway, and Co., millers, report for the wetk ending July 10 as under:-Flour'in sacks LlO 10s per ton, in hundreds Llol6s, in fifties Lll; bran, L 6 ; pollard, L6los; oatmeal, LIS; pearl barley, LIS; barley durt, L 6. Milling wheat: Market very weak and lower prices ruling. Several larga paroels from the North have been placed on this market, we understand, without finding buyers. We quote prime milling, 4s 4d to 4s 6d per bushel; fowls' do, 3s to 8s 9d. Milling oats : Prices decidedly lower. We quote prime milling, 2s 3d per bushel; feed do, 2s to ?s Id. Mnce the Waimea Railway Company struck, their 1884-85 rate ther lands within the rating area have beea classified, and the 1885-86 rate is made up in accordance with the report of Messrs Maitland and Spence. The amount nominally to be raised is L 2.474 0» sd, but of course only half of this will fall to be actually paid, owine to the purchase by Government of the line In the list of ratepayers liable for the rates the Agricultural Company are liab e for L 687 under the Id rate, while one firm is liable for L 66 4s. Two ratepayers are liable for an amount over L3O but under LSO, two liable for a sum over L2O but under t,30, and eleven for a sum over LlO but under L2O. Under the }d rate the Agricultural Company are liable for L 155, but only one ratepayer to liab'e for a sum over L2O, and one for a sum over LlO. The Agricultural Company are down for L 142 under the Jd rate, and one ratepayer for a sum above L4O, . one for over L2O, and one for over LlO. Altogether there are 152 ratepayers, exclusive of the Agricultural' Company, liable for sums above L2 10s.—'Mataur* Eoslgn." ~ MINING NOTES. A Press Association telegram from Hokitika is as follows:—The Ross United Company washed up their flrat set, equal to about nine cubio yards, for 4os 2d wt The cost of getting this is estimated at 80s. The gold is worth LS 16s per oz. A telegram was received by Mr W. Watson yesterday from the legal manager, Resfton, that the Jost-in-Time mine was imp'oving. The new make was Bft wide In the south rise, with 2ft of quarts. The 'Daily Times'*' Queenstown conespondeni wires that the Phoenix mine has sent down a cake of 6SOOZ of smelted gold from 400 ton ■ of stone. A Nelson telegram states that a nngget ""W™"? 12os 17dwt was picked up at Rocky River, near Collingwood. . _ The legal manager of the Unfed Alpine Company reports that the crushing of 9ZS tons of stone yield, d 710oz retorted gold. A dividend of 10d au been declared. • (Br TkmbrAPH. " Svdskt, July 9 -New Zealand wheat is at 4s 2d per bushel, and New Zealand oats at »M: per bu . Maize, perMls, iaat Bsßd. Sugar Company No, pieces, L 26 per ton.