Commercial.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 897, 28 September 1866, Page 4

Commercial.

AUCKLAND. New Zealand Herald Offico, Thursday afternoon. The Cu'toms receipts for to-dav amounted to £708 61. To-day Messrs. Robrrton and Co. held a gale of damaged goods, crocerii-s, &c.. ex lion ircli, from L.ond<m, lit their st >-es. Durham-street. Bacon broughtlOJd; 10.1 to lid ; paper bag 3, 31<1; white load, Id; black paint, IJd ; Ewbank'a nuils, 3id. &c. The Bamo person also sold, ex Ifarriette; Nathan, from JTohut Town:—Jams, tins, 10s ; candied peel, Is 3d; half-box sardines. I2s 4i , quarter-boi d•, 7-> ; currants. Oil; soda crystils 10s fit; inixfd spice, ls9d; tobacco, 10^d; fine salt. ~>i 101 ; wa'nucs, 3.jd, <feo. Messrs. Turrell and Tonka sold at auction to-day the building known as the National M-rt. The nuilling brought £22, and tho fittings, loose timber, &e , £9. OTAGO. Since the departure of the mails via Panama, the import market has continued in a dull condition, pre-entin? but little of interest in the transactions which have come ri.idi.-r notice. Shipraen 3 actually to hand have iu general been placed without difficulty, and prices fairly maintained without symptoms of giving way, or of fluctuation ; but for shipments to arrive, even Then supposed to be close at hand, an extreme indifference to operate has been manifested by buyers, and except in one or two very scarce articles, transactions other than for prompt delivery have been almost nil. The ro<trietivene;s which chxraterised financial arrangements last month is still felt, though in a lesser degree Credit, however, has been f airly maintained: no commercial casualties have taken place, and only the lapse of a short period of time is requisite for the entire subsidence of any unnecessarily cautious policy. I here ha»e been no arrivals from British or Foreign Porta since the sth, and the only intehigerice to hand, reopectin? overdne bliips, has been the reported putting in of the Olive Mount to tho Mauritius. Bank rites of discouut remain as last given, and exchanges cloße, viz.:—On London, at three days' sight, 3 per cent ; at 30 days' si Jit, 2i per cent. 5 at fiO days', 2 per cent. on 'Sydney, 1\ er cent.; on Melbnurne £ per cent— Time; Sept. 20.

SYDNEY.'/ 'J:''^^':.^*'.'! The adjourned meeting of the committee ofnthe , Chamber of Oomme.ce was held. Jit 1 tor Exchange ] to-dav, Mr. J. L. Montcfiore in the chair, the subject of the Panama Mail ,Sery.ee, : discussion, a resolution was passed, to the effect - that in the opinion of the Chamber, unle 9 s%dney , be made the terminus for the mainvbciats of Jthe;lV nama line of steam communication .the subsidy, ofthis colony should be withdrawn" The atten ion of the committee was drawn to the rates,c-f postage of let ters ; tho rates via Panama between England and tne colony, being supposed to be double those of via' Suez and Southampton: the rates for newspapers being , quadruple. It was also pointed out that in Jlnglancl, the principle upon which was ba.-od increased rates , for lettersf according to weight, differed from that of other nations ; any letter if exceedingl ounce, being charged at the rate of 2 ounces, whilst in other countries it would only be charged as for H ounce, if not exceeding that weight. The chairman and ftir. John Alger were appointed a deputation to wait upon tho Postmaster General, and point put to him anomalies in the postal rates. _ . Messrs. Bart and Co. report having sold ldf head inferior cattle, 44 bullocks, from £4 10s to £6 lis : 93 cows, from £2 17s to £o 18s; average ot the lot £4 12s. , , The brig Miss Kilniansetrg arrived to day from Java,-with 2490 bags ri.-o, 3028 bigs sugar, 300 bags coffee, and 247 bags pepper.—Jept. IS.