Commercial.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1074, 24 April 1867, Page 4

Commercial.

AUCKLAND. New Zealand Heeald Office, Tuesday afternoon. .The Customs Receipts for to-day amounted to EGS6 10a. 7d. To-day Messrs. Jones and Co. Bold at auction, on iccount of whom it may concern, ox Kegino, from London, lialf-cliasts congou tea, la 9id to la lOd per ■b; chests ditto, la 5Jd. Price's Bolmont candlc?, L2Jd, 12Jd, and la Id per lb; tlale'B ditto, full weights, lL'Jd to Bass's bottled alo, 9s; Geaevn, 11b Od ; Thurley'a food, Is to Is 3d. Messrs. C. Arthur and Son, sold at auction, to- %. at the Chambers of the Auckland Insurance Company, a large iron safe, £16 ; office table, 64 sd; &c. Mr. C. Stichbury sold at auction to-day. by order if the Registrar of the Supreme Court, a piece of and containing by admeasurement 46 acres, moro or ess, eituato in the Parish of Kopuru, County of ETobson, and being allotment No. 10, with all buildings creetod thereon ; twenty-five horse-power atoamsugine, witli boiler, in compl' to working order ; breaking-down saws, circular saws, planing machine, uid all machinery and gear connected therewith, or in and about tho saw mill erected on tho parcel of Lund hereinafter described; also, all that pieeo or parcel of land in Now Zealand, being lot M of a subdivision of allotments 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 38, 89, 10, 41, 42, <1.3, and -11, of section 44, of the town of Auckland, having a frontage of S3 fctt to Hepburnstreet, with a depth of 103 feet, together with all buildings erected thereon. Tha lot brought £550. Lots 5 and G, section 1, suburbs of Auckland, fronting tho Waitemafa River, realised £29. Lot No. 12, Russell and Wood streets, brought £20 10s. Lots Nos. 16 and 23, Sale and Centre-streets, Freeman's Bay, with all tho buildings oroated thereon, went for £70 the lot. Tho Bay of Islands yacht Rosalie was sold at auction to-day, by Mr. L. W. Eaton, for £11 15s. SYDNEY. (From tho Sydney Set-aid.) Tho mail news has created a firmer tone in the import markets, and pending the receipt of privato adviceß holders are indisposed to name a price. By telegram from Melbourne, we learn that there have been heavy exports of kerosone from New York for the colonies; 82,900 ca3es ar9 reported by two ships. Shipments of tobacco are reported to be very light. Two cargoes of rice are reportod from Calcutta; ono amall vessel, the _'Wolverine, was loading for Melbourne. Mauritius advicea confirm those received by the Star of Hope as to the probability of a larger sugar crop than was at first expected. The improvement is due to the breaking up of the drought. J Tho nova appears to have already affected the MolI bourne market.

The sharebrokera report the paßt week as ono of the most inactive of the year. An. unusually email amount of business was done, in fact scarcely anything but a few sales of bank stocks. In Commercials there has been a further improvement of 10s. Joint stocks have advanced to 12£, which maybe considerod the current rate. Bank of New South. "Wnlea have been done at ss. higher than last week. Citys aro easier. Steam shares meet with no inquiry. Gcnornl Assurance 6hare3 have been quitted at a declino of ss. Willi seeds at GJ and 6fc, are the only sales of mining shares. Sales of the Newcastle Gas and Coke Company's 10 per cent, bonds, at par and interest, and City of Sydney debentures, due in 1872, at 95, comprize all that has beeu done in debentures. Queensland tens aro wanted. Tlio following tablo shows the closing prices of our securities, as well as the rate at which sales hare boon made :—

ihe following general abstract, shewing the average amount of the liabilities and assets of the Union Bank of Australia, within the colony of New South Wales, takon from the several weekly statements, during the quarter from the Ist January to the 31st March, 186", is taken from to-day's Government Gazette-.— Liabilities : Notes in circulation, interest, £15,419 bills in circulation, not bearing interest, £7275 5s Gd; deposits, not bearing iuterest, £140,9-16 7s Id; bearing interest, £175,560 lis 9d ; totnl amount of lkbilitioi, £339,203 -is -Id. Assets: Coined gold and silver and other coined metals, £92,912 Ss 2d ; gold and silver in bullion or bira, £22,549 13s lid ; landed property, £14,000 ; notes and bills of other banks, £2239 16s 3d ; amount of all debts due to tho bank, including notes, bills of exchange, and all stock and funded debts of every description, excepting notes, bi'ls, and balances due to the said from other banks, £356,484 2s sd; total amount of assets, £-188,135 0s 9d. Amount of the capital Btock paid up at tho '.-loso of the quarter ending 31st March, 1867, £1,250,000; rato of the last dividend declared to the shareholders, 17 per cent, per annum; amount of the last dividend declared, £100,250 ; amount of the reserved profits at tho time of declaring such dividend, £007,243 14s 9d. Quean of Nations and Western Chief, from London, brought general cargoes, value! at £79,470, of which soft gooia, apparel, and wrought leather form the largest items. Breadstuff*.—Nine cargoes, chiefly of South Australian wheat, havo arrived during the week, but as the bulk of them were previously contracted for by local millers, tbe market has not been at all weakened. Small lots of silk-dressed flour have been sold as high as £14, but £13 10s may Ic considered as a fair market price for trade parcels. 3ound samples of Californian, in quarter-sacks, have changed hands at £12 10s to £13; good Chilian is also firmer. Wheat remains steady, at last week's rates, with a full supply in the hands of millers. Other kinds of grain in fair demand. Sound tnaize, 2s 8d to 2s lOd, choice samples a shade higher. Californian oats are worth about 3s 6d ; barley, 3s. Coffee.—Market fully supplied ; plantation sells at 10|d to lOid j Manila and Java, 7id to Sid. Candles.—'i'he firm tone which the market had recently has given placc to an indisposition to purchase ;ppries tend lower —lod is a fair quotation for best brands of full weights. Lower rates are ruling in Melbourne. Dried Fruits.—There is little doing in articles under this head; best currants are held for sd, inferior nd less. The Western Chief brings a large parcel. Muscatels, in good condition, bring 7-Jd to Bd. Kleme and sultana raisins and almonds are almost out of stock, and bring extreme rates. Dundee Goods.—Woolpacks are at present almost unsaleable; holders ask 3s 9d to 4s 3d. Although there is not much doing in cornsacks, they are firm at 14s Gd to 15s ; some are held for a trifle more. Fish.—Dried ling havo been sold as low as 4d, and range between that and 4|d ; lib salmon are improving, good brands are worth 16* to 16s 6cl; sardines are heavy, owing to largo stocks, quarters are held for 5s 6d ; lib. ovsterß and lobsters are in moderate supply. Liquora.—Bulk alej continue very firm, owing to tho non arrival of the Sulina, now overdue with a largo shipment of new brew, all of which is sold to irrive. Tho market is quite bare of Marrian's; Worthington's moves off steadily at £9; Joules's has Men sold to arrive at £9 ; Jeffery's and McEwan's lave been similarly placed at £7 5s to £7 10s. A jarcel of Carlislo old brow brought close to £9 at mblic sale. Castlemaino Go's s"lls freely at £6 30s, rad getting more in demand owing to the high prices >f other ales. Taylor's bulk stout is scarce, and vorlh £G ; othor descriptions aro dull. The market s fully supplied with bottled beers. Blood's stout • a offering at oi6dto9s9d- Sales ofßarclay's, bottled >yTyrer, have been male, to arrive, at 7s 9d. Bass's >yramid ale is worth 9s 3d to 9s Gd, according to ; lottlcrs. Tennant's about the same price. Leading ] irands of case brandies are fully Is danrar. Maxell's < las been placed at 2G3, and Hennessy's at 2Gs Gd. , XarteH's palo and dark, in hogsheads, was quitted t6s 6d all round; Hennc-ssy'a dark, is worth Gs 3d. 1 turn is nteady at 3s 2d to 3s 4d for 30 0.p.; sales of leading brand have been made at 3s 3d. Geneva - u-iet. Tho market is baro of old torn, for which 15s « as boon paid. Whiskey in fair trade demand at last week's prices. Oilmcn'd Stores and Provisions.—There is no hange to notice. Several largo invoices were offered t auction without leading to any business. Large arcels will be offered again during the ensuing reek. Sugars.—No sales of any consequence havo taken laco during tho week, and prices have not in any my altered. The market at Melbourne is reported asier. Teas.—lhe tendency of the market is to harden, specially as a large parcel of the Greyhound's cargo oes on to the Melbourne market. Two vessels, rhicli arrived from Hongkong via Melbourne, rought trifling parcels, the bulk of their freight being chow chow cargo. Low congous continue scarce, nd holders command their own prices. Bice.—The only lot of new Patna which has Bached this market is selling slowly at about £30 ; Id may be purchased at much lower rates, say £21 > £22 10s, and very fine samples for £23. Clean ava ii worth £24 to £25: inferier £21 to £22. MELBOURNE. An extremely quiet day has passed in the import larkots; a good deal of this activity being, no oubt, due to heavy rain which set in at an early

" hour of the' day. In breadstuff's, no new feature of interest has transpired ; the value of flour is maintained unaltered, but the sale 3 effected partake too much of a retail character to be deserving of notice. Victorian continues to he quoted £11 to £11103; > and Adelaide is valued at £12 to £12 10s. We l learti from Messrs. Dnffield and Co., of Adelaide, • that steps are being taken to discover and bring to . justico the perpetrator* of the fraudulent attempt to • pass off inferior flour in another market, as their ' flour, by the forgery of their brand. Cornsacka are J again more inquired for, though the prices offering 1 do not as yet present much inducement to quit stock. , We quote 13s 5d to 13s 6d for Dundees. Fine . medium congous, in half-chests, have been placed at 2s in bond. We hear of a line of 100 barrels of moss f pork, for shipment, having been taken up at close on ' £5 10s, in band. Sales of "Vazey's new hams, ex Highflyer, are reported at 15Vd. The Neva Company annouuee a further reduction in the price of their candles to Is 3d. Hletne raisins, which have been very scarce of late, are offering at Bd, to land. . A parcel of Blood's stouC, for shipment, has been closed for at 9s in bond.—Argus, April 8. HOBAItT TOWN. Sales of general produce have been limited, and chiefly for home consumption. Flour is still quoted at from £10 to £10 10a, with a fair local trade at these rates. Wheat, 4s 2d to 4s 4d per bushel; sharps, from £6 to £7 per ton j bran, Is 2d per bushel.—Mcreury, April 4. TjAUNOESTON. We have no change to report in our quotations, flour remains steady at £.0 to £9 10s per ton; wheat, 3b 9d; oats, 2s Gd ; bran, Is per bushel; potatoes, £3 per ton, without bags; potted butter, wholesale, lOd to Is per lb, according to quality.— Cornwall Chronicle, April 6. ADELAIDE. The publishing by the Government of the agricultural statistics have had an improving effect upon the prices both of wheat and flour. It was generally anticipated that the average would have been higher, and that there would be more than 200,000 tons more available for export than now turns out to bo the case. Flour.—There has been considerable inquiry, and several hundred tons have changed hands at prices varying from £9 12s Gd to £10 10s per ton. To-day thete are buyers at £10 10s to £11 per ton for good brands, but the leading nailers are asking £11 10s to £12 per ton. Wheat.—There is absolutely none offering. There are a good many buyers at about 4s 2d to 43 3d per bushel, but this advance does not seem to satisfy sellers.—Register, April 1, ENGLISH MARKETS. Feb. 26. Our market remains very quiet, and but few transactions occur. In sorts wanted for immediate consumption, a few sales have been made at about last sale rates, but no quantity could be disposed of except ut a reduction, the anticipated large arrivals for March, coupled with quiet trade iu the Worth, causing consumers to buy very sparingly. The sales are fixed to commence on the 28th Feb., j arrivals to date being:—Sydney, 12,653 biles; Port L Philip, 31,20G bale 3 ; "Van Diemen's Land, 259 bales ; Adelaide, 5312 bales; Swan River, 805 bales; New | Zealand, 670 bales ; Cape, 30,067 bales; total, 81,000 bales. Some holders are sanguine that November prices . will ba fully maintained, an opinion not shared in by the trade, who look for a full decline of lid on all Port Phillip sorts. Sydney and Cape about late ! rates. ' The following are the closing rates for Government debentures and other colonial securities:—New ' South Wales, 5 per cents duo 1871 to 1876, 91 to [ 93 ; ditto, due ISSS to 1890, S-5J to S6J ; New ZeaI land 6 par cents, 101 to 102 ; ditto 5 per cents, 84i : to 851. Queensland, 01J to 92J; South Australia, I 10 r > to 108 ; Victorin, 105 to 106. Banks : Austral- , asi't, 68; Colonial, 41; Knglish, Scottish, and AusI tralian Chartered, IS ex div. ; London Chartered of Australia, 23 ; National of Australasia, . 6 ; New South Wales, 45 ; New Zealand, t 19 ; OtagO, 7 ; South Australia, 29 ; Union, . 48 ; Victoria, 39. Mines : Port Philip, i ; Scottish Australian, 1-J ; Tudanamutana of South Australia, If. Miscellaneous: Australian Agricultural ComI pany, 19 ex div. ; Australian Mortgage Land and Finance, i prem.; English and Australian Copper Smelting Co., 1; North British Australasian (Limited), 47 ; New Zealand Loan and Mer. Agency (Limited), i dis. x d. ; New Zealand Trust and Loan, b prem.; Otago and Southland Investment, J dis.; Peel Kiver Land and Mineral Company, 39 ; Scottish Australian Investment Company, 12S ; South Australian Land Compan3', 35; Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, 1 prem.; Yan Diemen's Land Company, 9. THE CORN TRADE. Mark Lane, Monday Afternoon, Feb. 25. J Last week's supplies were moderate. There were no cereal exports. English wheat up, 4,774 qrs.; foreign, 11,956 qrs. The show ot samples this morning from Kent and Essex was very short, yet great heaviness prevailed, and it was difKcult to make way at Is per quarter less money. The foreign trade was only retail, at n similar reduction, but floatiug cargoes sold very freely od holders accepting Is to 2s per qr. less, and some were withdrawn from 3alo. Country flour 22,GS 1 sacks; foreign, 1,473 sacks, 615 barrels. Though country descriptions were held occasionally at former rates, less monSy must have been taken to sell; the same may be said of all foreign qualities. Town prices were unaltered. Maize, 2,646 qrs. This grain was rather in favour of buyers. British barley, 3,924 qrs ; foreign, 11,056 qrs. Making sorts, though not plentiful, were exceedingly heavy to sell, and those for distillation were dull; but foreign grinding remained firm. The malfc trade was wholly void of animation, and tendering downwards. Oats, in all, 25,442 qrs—viz., 2,791 qrs English, 100 qrs Scotch, 22,551 qrs foreign. More activity ha 3 appeared in this trade, but at 6d per qr decline from last Monday. English beana, 809 qrs ; foreign, 1,665 qrs. There was no change of value either in English or foroign. English pea 9, 486 qrs ; foreign, none. Notwithstanding the short supply business was quiet. Linseed, 5,729 qrs ; exports, 800 qrs. Seed was a slow sale, but there was a fair demand for cakes. Iced clover Eeed sold very slowly for the time of year, the land still being wet. Tares, for the same reason, did not go off briskly, and other seeds were dull.

EASTERN MARKETS. The Calcutta Englishman of March 6th reports • We have no improvements to notice in 'Z. either in prices or demand. ° ar > Saltpetre continues in the fame state as befow and prices keep firm at o rupees. Rice—Business in table kinds lias taken pW some extent for Great Britain, at a slight reduot;™ on previous rates. Ballam is also lower a W o annas per md. Present quotations are Bs 2-S tn o\f, for Kahree, and 2-13 to 3 for Ballam. " 10 Castor Oil—For this article prices hare advance owing principally to the scarcity of seeds n,' business dono has therefore been somewhat limit*/? Prices range from 12-8 to 13-8. From Shanghai we learn that in teas a moderate business has been transacted, bat in consequence of the firmness of holders an advance of about one tael lias taken place on all kinds of black, and on the fine kinds of green. Goals had a downward tendency At Canton, the business done in tea 3 was limited At Hongkong Australian coals were worth 81 dollars to 9.V dollars a ton. Batavian advices to March Ist report the departure of the Ystroom. and Amycus for Sydney, with 780 tons of sugar ; and the Netherlands and Elizabeth, for Melbourne, with 1185 tons sugar, 153 tons rice, and 2 tons rattans. Rice was quoted at lower rates, sugar scarce and higher. Coffee market bar.> Freights improving. No transactions in Australian coal. At Manila the latest sales of coal were at 9 dollars from ship's tackles. The Lobelia had sailed for Sydney with 17,400 piculs of sugar, 520 piculs o£ coffee, and 81 piculs of coffee. The Ocean, for Melbourne, took 2929 piculs hemp, 3700 taels sugar, 10i mils cigars, 154 piculs cordage. Nothing loading for the colonies. Shipments of sugar to Australia were 12,000 piculs in excess of those of the previous year. MAURITIUS. Sugar.—-Tlie markot is now without animation, and there is an absence of disposition to purchase at present prices. Holders, however, show firmness and decline to reduce quotations. The prices of white crystals and superior yellows given below are nominal :—Tesou No. 12 to IS, from 5 dollars 75 cents to 7 dollars; syrups, from 4 dollars to 5 dollars 25 cents ; finest white eryat ils over No. 20, 7 dollars 50 cents to 7 dollars 75 cents : yellow crystals, No. 1 7 dollars; very fine yellow, No, 1, counters, 0 dollars 75 cents to 6 dollars 90 cents ; good yellow, No. 2 ditto, 6 dollars 25 cents to 6 dollars 50 cents ; fiie yellow syrups, 5 dollars 90 cents to 6 dollars 10 cents good ditto, 5 dollars 50 cents to 5 dollars 75 cents ; low dark to fair rations 4 dollars 75 cents to 5 dollars 55 cents. Bran : A sale of Australian has bean made at 2.25 dollars the 100 lbs. ; colonial is 1.75 dollars to 2 dollars. Flour : Since our last report there have been received by Star of Hope, from Launceaton, 556 bags, which have fetched with difficulty 3.17J dollars per 100 lbs. It must be added that delivery has not yet been taken. The position has scarcely changed, and the price quoted above could not be obtained for a large quantity, it having only been realised through the requirements of millers. In general the market is inactive, owing to the large quantity of the article and of wheat on hand. Oats : Australian continue without change aS say 2 dollars to 2 dollars 25 cents per 100 lbs. Wheat: Since the last sales of about 8500 bags of Californian at 3.15 dollars to 3.25 dollars per bag only 1000 bags of the same have been sold at 3.25 dollars. The market is now steady with a considerable stock. There is on hand of different descriptions about sir months' consumption. Rain has fallen, but; only in partial showers. There has been enough to give activity to vegetation, but whatever may fall will not prevent a considerable reduction in next crop. There are some who do not estimate the next crop at more than 75,000 tons. Messrs. C. Daniel and Go. liave suspended payment owin<* to losses sustained on giain imported from India. "The effect lias caused a painful sensation. The Result has sailed for Sydney. The' Jessie Kellywas loading for the colonies.

Capital. Counts. jol; Bosisbm * lgj~ l ltlCKS. Dona. £ Banks. £ 900,000 Australasia. 40' GG'to G3 400,000 Coraincrciul 25 to 53 5-H, 55 500,000 Bug. Scot, and JLust 20 18 000,000 Joint Stock 10 12* 12 12* 1,000,000 London Chartered... 20 22$ 2,00<\000 Oriental 25 42 to 42? 1,250,000 Union 25 62 1,000,000 Xew South Wales 28 45 to 45£ . 45 45i 500,000 Now Zealand 10 17£ 200,noo City Uank 10 loj 10*Stcam. • 320,000 Australasian 20 11 62,000 Clarence <fc Richmond 10! 2i to s "* 55,000 Hunter River 10i ]**. £0,000 II la warm 5. 3 ..** 60,000 Queensland 10 3 to 4 Insurance. 600,000 General Marino 30s 14 1* 150,000 N. S. W. Marino £ 2£ 250,000 Sydney Firo&Marine o H 500,000 1'aclflc Fire & Marine 2 2i 500,000 United Fire aud Marine 1 123 Cd 1,000,000 Southern 1 1$ Miscellaneous. 800,000 Gas Light C 11 50,000 Sydney Exchange ... 10! 2 50,300 I'ynnont Bridge 5! 2 £ 100,000 Walljsend Coal in' 6* CI r,i' 60,000 WarataU Coal q\ 5 ' 0 20,000 Moruya 3i Ditto 5I 100,000 Peak Downs Copper ij 15s 60,000 Cadiangullontf j Ditto j 30,000 Hartley Kerosene Oil and Parafllnc 1 1 40,000 Glanmiro Gold Mining 2 1 CO,000 Fitzroy Iron 5 50,000 WesternKcroseneOil 1 1 ,'j* Ditto 1'rcf. 10 S ; IJulli Coal Company 10 **] Ctirravrantf Copper 7sOU 10a Debentures. Government, due in 1SGG,") 1571, 1873, 1S74, 1870, > 100 S7 to 91 im, 1891, and ISO* j Interminable 100 85 Trenurjr Jiills, 0 ji.e 100 100 Queensland Government 100 100 Do, Treasury Bills. 10 p.c. ... i00 105J 106 !!! A.S.X.C0., due i»'Ui),aud'71,.. loo' 93 City of Sydney 10 o 95 05 I'ynnont Bridge Co., due in 1 _ 18Gi> f 100 100 Col. Sugar Ketiniug Co., due 1 from 18G3 to ISU3 J 100 100 New Zealand Government,! 8 per cent j 100i 101 Wellington, N.Z., 10 per. cent looj

I ENGLISH SHARE MARKET. (From tlio Times, February 26.) Government securities. j raid. I Closiug Prices N. S. Wales Government, 5 p. cent. 1S71 to 1S76, .January and July ... | 100 ! 01 to 03 Do.. 5 percent., 1SSS to 1S03 j 100 ' 85} — 8tfi Do., i p. cent., 1807 to 1S75 1 100 j 94} — 95i Xevv Zealand, 6 per cent. 100 j 101 — 102 Do., 5 per cent '100 > S4J — 85J Queensland Government, G per cant.,! | January and July 1 100 ' 915 — 021 S. Australian Government. 6 p. cent., ! 1S7S and upwards : 100 100 — 10S Victoria Government, 6 per cent., January and July ... ... ... 100 105 — 10G Shares. J Hanks. jpuid. Closingrrices. 10 Rank of New Zealand ...j 10 o pm. ii 40 j Australasia All 66 to GS SO Itank of Olago 10 3 dis. xd 100 IBank of Queensland ... 25 — 60 IBank of Victoria 2-j 3d 20 New South Wales All 46 xd 10 N. Z. Bank Corp. ... 1 — 25 Union of Australia ... All 43 id Sharac. Miscellaxeocs. Paid. Closing Prices. 25 'Australian Agricultural Co, 204 17 '-'5 j Australian Mortgage, Land j and Finance 5 i pm. 50 i Home & Colonial Assurance S Si dis. Stock Xorth British Australasian ! (limited) 100 47 23 !N. Zealand Trust and Loan.. 5 j pul. 10 Otago and Southland Investment 2 } dis. 10 Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Mail A1I 7} 5 Ditto All 3f Stock Scottish Australian Investment Co. ... 100 .\23 25 South Australian Land Co... All 33 10 Trust and Agency Company of Australasia 1 pm 30 Van Diemau's Land Co. ... 285 o