Commercial.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 683, 22 January 1866, Page 4

Commercial.

AUCKLAND. Nrcw Zealand Tlf.uai.ti Oflice, Saturday evening. '.i'ho Customs Revenue roccived to-day amounted to •£CS7 17s 9d, making the, total for the week £2,0.13 6s lOd. UOICITIKA. Tho V'exf (.'oust. Timrs of the Bt)i reports : — Tlie duties paid on imports yesterday amounted to £392 19a Id. No gold was elcarod. Business has improved during tho last week, but with little alteration in prices. We cannot quote any improvement in the flour nmrlcet, several parcels having been offered by auction, and withdrawn, tho trade only purchasing, as they have been (loin.!* for a .me time past, for present consumption. Erst Adelaide is held for .€3l! per ton ; Chilian, £20. Oats aro in better demand, and prices have hli;>htly improved on our last quotations. Chaff has been sold at £23 per ton. .Bran is saleable at 3s per bushel. Hams and bacon aro inquired for, and still maintain good prices, the supply limited. Sinclair's avo worth, for liams, Is lOd per lb.; good colonial bacon and hams have been placed at Is 3d and Is -Id per lb. i'.utter has come to hand in considerable quantities from tho neighbouring provinces and Australia. Prime new is saleable at Is 9d to 2s per lb.; for "ork butter there is no demand. Cheese still continues scarce, at, for best English, Is lOd to to 2s por lb.; good colonial, Is 5d to ls7<i per lb. Wines and spirits have had an improved demand, but prices have not altered from our last quotations. Bottled alo and porter have not altered in price since our last; best brands, 18s to 20s per dozen. Urocerics, oilmen's store?, and dried fruits, are saleablo at prices favourable to importers. HAWKE'S BAY. On Wednesday, the 10th inst., Mr. V. Janiarh polcl (in tho estate of the late John Morrison) about 1110-sheep—ewes and wethers, lambs given in—■ with intoioit of the run, at 17s G'd each. —Herald, January 13. liYTTELTOtf. The land sales yesterday were : Banks' Peninsula, 65 acres; Ellosmere, 80 acres. Total, 145 ae: Cash received, £290. The first wool salo of tho season took place on January 10, at the iron store of Messrs. H*. Matson and Co., in Liehfield-street, Christehureh ; the attendance was good, and nearly every lot offered was sold at very satisfactory prices. Washed fleeces : brought Is 3id per lb.; and greasy wool realized J from OJd to-lOjj-d per lb. Locks and pieces, half price. It is proposed to hold another sale on Wednesday, 31st instant, should, sufficient wool offer.— J Times, January 12.

OTAGO. A considerable amount of steady trade is doing at present, and very few goods can bo named which are not in fair request. Orders both from the interior md for shipment are to hand to an encouraging extent, and tho attention of second houses is tolerably well occupied in their execution. There has been no move in the flour market, no endeavor being mado by liolder3 to force heavy sales,_ and demand being rather slack; in quotation there is no variation. In teas, wines, and provisions, transactions have taken place at sustained rates, and all ltinds of miscellaneous goods have been quitted at prices fully kept up to recent quotations. The auction saleß for the past day or two have possessed no interest. — Times. January 10. SAN FKANCISCO. _ Flour.—Sales of Golden Age, Pioneer, Pacific, City Mill, and Commercial, extra, in quarter-sacks, at b dollars 75 cents to 7 dollars per bushel, as per quality. Same brands, superfine, at 6 dollars 25 cents to 6 dollars 50 cents, in quarter and half sacks. Napa, Suisun, Orange and San Jose (country mills), rule at same ; Alviso (Santa Clara county), at 7 dollars for extra, and G dollars 75 cents for family, in quartersacks. Market dull. Wheat.—Sale of 1000 sacks, milling, at 2 dollars 5 cents per 100 lbs. Barley.—Sales of 70 tons choice, for export, delivered, at 1 dollar 10 cents, and 400 sacks choice brewing, at 1 dollar 12 cents per 100 lbs. Oats—Kave met good request for export as well as local requirement. Sales of 700 sacks choice at 1 dollar GO cents ; 1200 do do, at 1 dollar 60 cents to 1 dollar G2J- cents; and 300 do. fair, at 1 dollar oO cents per 100 lbs. Hides.—Sales of 250 dry-salted Hawaiian on private terms. Candles.—Sales of 2000 boxes Emery's Adaman- | tine, private—full rates. Sugar.—Sales of SOO half-barrels Hawaiian, medium to good grades, at 9 dollars 50 ccnts to 11 dollars ; and 3000 do do, dark, for refining purposes, at full rates. The English accounts Terc of a firmer market for grain. The London Gazette states that the wheat crop of France and Germany is a full average, and the supplies of food for Kngland are quite equal to former years. It is supposed tho consumption will be larger. The quantity of cotton on the way from India was 214,000 bales, and the London Times remarks in relation to silver :— 'there has lately been considerable activity in the silver market, owing to the demand for India. During the whole of the present month, upwards of ;€ 1,200,000 will have been sent to Bombay and Calcutta, chiefly the former, of which about three-fourths will have been shipped Marseilles. Tho engagements for the next Bombay mail, via Marseilles, which i 3 to sail on tho sth of November, are already large, and it may be expected that over half a million sterling will bo taken out by that opportunity. The price has advanced to 6;fd, both from hero and from Marseilles. There appears ts have been a large stock of silver in France, or the rise would have been more decided. A small portion of the silver shipped hence is received from Holland. , Tho exports per Br. ship Magna Bona to Iquque embraced 12,501 sacks bi'.rlcy, worth 17,316 dollars The Br. barque Constance, to Auckland, New Zealand, carries 8,309 sacks v/lie -.l and 620 sacks oats, value 22,460 dollars.—Alia California, Dec 5.