COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1444, 4 July 1868, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

AUCKLAND. JTrw Zealand Hwhi.l) Office, Friday afternoon. Custom* Rivenus. —Duties, £271 As. 2d. ; lipl.t duos, ,7s. Id. ; merchant (.hipping fens 2».; arms' £5 lfic plot«f»», £5 l(io 8d ; port- charges, lis Bd. Total, £234 6a. 7d. -;U-TOMS RRCEIPTP. The followiig "re the receipts for tho week commencing iSatuidav, June 27, and ending Friday, July 3: _ b ' £ s. d. Saturday ••• ••• " Monday ••• ••• ••• 8 6 Tuesday 443 5 i Wedneßtay 1 \ Thursday ••• 389 2 5 Friday .. ... ... 284 fi 7 £2207 5 7 Being ft (ecreuso on the preceding week o{ £175, Is Sd. .

THE■ ytJCKLAND MAMETS,

FAXM AND DAIRY PRODUCE. KKTAITi PRICES. H. 11. M. d. | S. d. S. d. Milk quart " 4to 0 5 | DucVs, pair 4 oto 5 0 Butter lb. f. 1 3—l G j Grose, each G 0— 7 0 Cheese (col) 1 o—o 0 Turkeys, eh. 36 —46 Ek<?s dozei 2G— 2 9 Bacon, lb. 10 —13 Lard,' per I'. J.O — 0 0 Ham 10 —16 Fowls, paii 3 6— 4 0 I Potatoes, cwt. 4 6— 5 0 iiutchp.uk' meat. Beef, perb. 0 5--0 7 j Pork, por lb. 0 5— 06 Mutton, 11. 0 4— 0 6 .. Bread, 5 Jd per 21b. loaf. tI'iIOIrXSALB PRICES. s. d. e. d. s. d. s. d. Butter, pe lb. 0 0— 1 0 Ducks 3 0— 4 0 Cheeso 0 7—o 9 Geese 6 0— 0 0 Epcs, perioz. 2 0— 2 3 Turkeys 4 o—o 0 l.ard, perlb. 1 0— 0 0 Bacon (col.) 0 9— 1 0 Fowls perpr. 3 0— 3 6 liams 1 0 1 3 Potatoes, £4 to £4 10s.

ICOUU MARKET.—Wholbsai.K. Tub Mils- —Superfine flour, silk dressed, crown brand, £'4 p cr flour, silk dressod T. 9.it F. brand. J22 ; imported Canterbury flour, £19; seconds, 613 ; sharps, £6 ; bran, lOd per bushol; oats, 3s U. BUILDING MATERIALS. TiHfiH- —Boards and scantling, per 100 feot, 9s to 10s; bards, tongued and grooved, 12s to 14a ; broad timber, -2s to 13s. Poste £4 10s; Rails, £2 10s to £3; O-feet palinpsjlfis; 5-feet palings, 12s; shingles, 8s to 9s ; New/aland palings, 12s; do. shingles, lOe to 12s. Bbic'3 per 1000, wholesale, £2 delivered j retail, £2 15s delivered. Ijlmi per bushel, Is to Is 6d, delivered. KAURI GTJM~MARKET. We juote the following prices on the Auckland raar \vil scraped 23s to 24?. lierior quality 15s to ISs. Ppakura, good hill gum ... 20s to 225. Brerhead, well cleaned ... 20s to 235. HAY AND CORN MARKET. WHOEBSALB. Ma:e, 5s to 5s 6d ; oats, (best) 3s 3d to 3s 9d bran,s; hay, £4 to £4 10s per ton; straw, £2 to £2 10; chaff, £5 10s. to £7. BETAIIt. Mize, 5s 6d to 6s ; oats, 4s Gd to ss; bran, Is 3d per hshel; hay; 5s ; straw, 4s to 4s 6d ; chaff, 5s 6d to 7sper cwt. COAL AND FIREWOOD MARKET. Oil.—: Newcastle, 45a to 60s per ton delivered Bay of Islands, 25s per ton at the wharf Wangorie, 22s 6d per ton at the wharf FkEWOOD —10b to 12b per ton delivered.

AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

MB. ALFRED BTTCKLAND's WEEKLY BKPOIIT. jt the Haymarket, on Saturday last, fodder was in fulsupply, and ill good enquiry; tho adrance of prrious Saturday was sustained. A larger than usal market of horse stock occasioned a numero u atlndance, and improved prices particularly for hevy draught stock wero obtained ; —best hor»es bnging £40' each ; dravs and farming implements vrte also in better demand. ' vt Papakura, on Wednesday, there wkb a large mster of stock, principally grown animulc, and a nmerous attendance ; prices obtained wero equal to tbso ruling at Kemuera. :At ftemuera, on Thursday, dairy cattle at their pifit were freely inquired for; late prices were obtined for thorn ; very few young store cattle offered, /large number of grown steers in good condition n?fc with a free demand at full rates. Working oxen, tlow condition, brought from £11 to £13 each ; a lrge muster of fat cattle (92 bead) sold to the conamer met with a free, demand, and an adranco of i Gd per lOOlbs. OT«r la«t week's rates was obtained, .few pens of storesheop in low condition, met with n indifferent Bale, 2s 6d each only being offered for ill mouthed morino ewes, and 6a 6il for merino •ethers; half bred wethers in good st.-.re condition let with o steady sale, and brought from 12s 6d to 3s. 9d. each; ewes. 14s each; fat sheep offered, .bundantly but were in request, 773 sold to the trade, jrices were fully as high as those obtaihod last week. Those from Taranaki, .ex Wellington,: avernged 245. mch; half bred and merino wethers from Napier, Ids 18d each. The white Tlerkshiro boiir renlii-fitl £3, and there was n pood enquiry for dairy'and cornfed pigß, but pigo of inferior quality and small sizo sold at nominal rates, from la 6d oach. W, HUNTER AMD CO.'S "WTCBKLT BEPOET. On Saturday last, there was not as many horses as u?ual, but those in sola well; good hacks sold from £6 15s to £7 10s. There were no good heavy draught horses in tho market. : Oats sold for 3s 6d per bushel. On Monday,., at Newmarket, there was a l>irgo number of cattle.; young stock sold at gopd prices dairy cows sold from £10 10s to £12 16s; store; stock sold at high prices; 2-year old steers sold from £4 10s to £5 12s 6d j 3-year old steers, from £7 5s to £7 12s 6d; working bullocks, from £8 to £11 each; 2-year old heifers, from, £4 12s 6d to £6.; yearling heifers, from £2 15a to £4 ; calves, from £2 6s to. £2 10s each. Fat cattle.— There was a good supply, all in wore sold at from 35s to 40s per lOOlbs. Sheep.—There was a fair market, but not of as good quality as the week previous. Half-breds sold from 18s to 255: merinos, from 8s to 10s; wether hoggets sold for 10s 3d each. There was a good supply, which' sold at good prices. tin Tuesday, at Otßhuhu, there were not many cattle in, but those sold fetchod fully Newmarket prices. On Wednesday, at Eapakura, thero was a largo number of cattle in, chiefly young Btock, which fetched higher, prices vhan at Newmarket; dairy cows sold from £8 to ;£ll 5 yearlings, £4 10a j each ; calTcSj from £2 63 to £3 6s each. r

AUCKLAND STOCK AND Si I ARK MAE KMT:

Mil. 8. VICKBIIS' RE]'(HIT. The following may b'3 considered tho quotations for tho respective, sharp*,, but the business doing is of the most limited character.

. SIIORTLAKD -SHAKE.MABKET. MESSRS. BBKTHAM, ■ WJIKEK, AND CO.'s 11EPOHT. Jn first-c'aPß claims prices continue to advance. Shares in tho Deep i.cacl, Dawn of Hope, Hokitika, Harp of Erin, and Sweeney's, have been in demand, and. there has been a run on some claims of less repute. Second-rate and back country claims scarcely command the price they deserve, und those away from a locality whero machinery is about to be OTectcd are unsaleable. There are many oxcellent and firstclass claims that are rarely quoted, through an unwillingness on the part of tho shareholders to have a definito valuo attached to their property. An auction ealo last Saturday by order of the Court, produced only £20 each for two f shares in the Morning Btar, Waiotahi; and the wholo of the Prince of Wales Claim, Karaka, (with the eicoption of a quarter-share), together with all the plant on the Kround, was sold for £2 per sharo ; but this cannot bo accepted as a fair critorion of their value. Other I shares offered on the same occasion were withdrawn.

At Tapu tho prices asked, though in many instances not beyond their value, have been too high to invite speculation.

The magnificent reef running through sovpn claims in tho Prospectors' Valley at Puriri, will shortly take its place nB a notable and valuable foaturo in these goldfields, when tho proposed machinery for which the shareholders have been so loner and anxiously waiting shall have started to work. We have been informed of two separato parties who are contemplating the erection of machinery on that ground, and we know of no better opening on the Thames Gold-Held.

■.'.i ... 1 i-ast Capita! Amt - ' Amt. quotatn. pr.8hr.| paid. pr. slir. Batik of New Zealand £500,000 £10 £10 17 New Zealand Insurauco ... 250,000 100 £22 Auckland Gas Company 20,000 .5 s 51 to JJ N.' '/J. .Loan & Mercantile Co. 500.000 2.5' 2 J '>\ to 3 ■Kapanca Gold Minlnj: Corap 10,000 10 9 — Bar of Islands Coal Company — — 1 I — S. Vickbbb, Share Broker. > July 3, 1868. ...