COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1434, 22 June 1868, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

I AUCKLAND. New Zealand Her\ld Office, Saturday evening. COSTOM3 Bbvehue.—Duties, £260 8s 4d; merchant seamen's fees, 9s ; arms fe«s, 9s ; pilotage (Xuuranga), £13 4s Gd ; port charges, 6s.—Total, £274 163 lOd. At the sale of furniture by Mr. G. Sibbtn, at Mr. Ogilvie's, Mount £den, on Friday, ihere was a large attendance, and bidding spirited. The pianoforte sold at £25; ornioiu clock, £6 10s ; pier glass, £7 17s 6d ; kauri table, £3 15s ; small card table, £i 5s ; carpets from 2s 4d to 6a 2d per yard ; stereoscope £4 45 ; hall lamp, £3 oa; hall table, £2 ss; drawingroom suite, £22 ; curtains and pole for window, £ 10s ; whatnot, £2 ; bedroom glas s , £2 10s; book case, £7 10a ; dining-room chairs, £1 3s each; table, £7. The marble and other ornaments fetched high prices. The cow sold for £10 10s. C Arthur and Son report at their sale to-day :— English ham=, lid to per lb.; colonial hamß and bacon, Sd to 9jd per lb.; potatoes, £4 to £4 5s per con; kidney ditto, 9s 4d to 12s per cwt.; butter, lOd and lOid per lb.; cheese, to 7d per lb. ; onion?, Id ; oats, 3s od to 3s 6d per bushel; tea, 29s to 30s per box ; soap, 17s 6d and 18s per box ; kerosene, 3s 3d per gallon; ducks, Is 9d each.; fowls, la Id to Is 9d each; turkeys, 23 3d each'. LYXTELTON. The grain market continued without improvement on Saturday, and but liitle business of any description was transacted. In face of the unsatisfactory advices from Australia, buyers are chary of giving the higher rates, and but little is offering at the lower. No alteration is to be noted in any of our former quotations. Messrs. Wilson and Alport yarded a fair number of cattle on Saturday, and sold as follows: —Good quality dairy cows, £6 17s 6d. to £9 10s; a few

superior cows were withdrawn at from £10 to £12. Several well-bwd heifers brought £6 ss. to £6 15s.— Times-, June 8. OTAGO. Since the- departure -of -the mail very-little of moment haa occurred. The weather still continues unfaTOurable to business; but a fair demand hr,l been experienced for up-country requirements and a Bteady trade BSsma likely to be done for the present. Current values do not from last quotations, and markets continue with a firm as* pect for most goods. Teas, spiriis, sugars, are all looking well, and holders disposed to look for full rates. JDKZ geneva has come forward in better supply, and a considerable quantity has passed from importers' hands at a fair priee not transpiring, but knovrn to be equal to previous rater. Brandies to arrive, are also reported as quitted at sustained values, holders quoting at 8s 3d to 8s 6<?.. Very little sugars are available, except the cargo of the Craigellachie, which is advertised for th 9 9th - buyers, in the meantime, waiting-. Stocks of congous are fast diminishing, and sales made and making exhibit some improvement. Malt liquors have been rather more dealt in, and some parcels, both of bulk and bottled, placed at, however, in some instances, rather reduced figures. In the grain market, operations have been rather curta ; !ed. Wheats arenow quoted at over 7s 6d for ordinary parcels ; barley, 4a 3d ; oatß, 2s 6d, with no demand. At the mills, town mad-5 flour, £19 10s ; Chilian flour, which is now nearly out of first hands, remains at £21 to £21 10s. — Times, June 3.