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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1518, 6 October 1868, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

" AUCKLAND. ' New Zeaiand Hbii vld Office, . Monday afternoon. Customs Revenue.—Duties, £541 17s 9d; arms fees, 15s ; light dues, £2 0s lOd; pilotage, £2 12s : port charges, £I.—Total, £548 5s 7d, HOKITIKA. We have very few changes in prices to report, but on the whole the market is in favour of buyers. Flour, for' the present, remains stationary at nearly £27 for best Adelaide. But - any coasiderable addition to present stocks would send the price down. Provincial flour is worth from £22* to £23 10s, according to quality. Tasraaniau flour is hot worth more than £20 to £21. Oats are firm at 4s, with some prospect of a rise. Chaff has beon sold at auction at £15,. which is about itß present value, though a higher figure is demanded from the store. Bran has declined somewhat during tbe woek, and cannot now be quoted at more than Is lid; we have heard of a large parcel changing hands at Is 9d. Really good potatoes are getting Bcarce, and are 'held in but few hands. Circular Head potatoes may be quoted at something over-£9—as much Jis £10 has been asked, while those from New Zealand ports are worth about £8, . Onions are nearly out of the market, and such few as are held are very inferior in quality. Some few which arrived by the John Penn hare been aold at auction at sd, bnt their quality was anything but superior. It is scarcely possible to hazard a quotation while the market is so bare in the article. The arrivals of butter since our last report have been very limited. The Egmont, from Sydney, brought only twenty-eight kegs, and the Otago brought twenty from Wellington. The large shipment, per Auckland, which we intimated, last week, as likely to arrive from Sydney, has not come to hand, but, we are informed, the next steamer from that porWill bring a considerable shipequal, .the number wo mentioned. Such' sales as'have been effected of.fsegpto hand have been quite up to _our, last week's report of -ls -4id.' We believe, however, that this extrome price will not be maintained so Boon as wo are in reeeipt of frosh supplies. : In our notice of arrivals we have not made allusion to eighty kegs from Nelson by the Tararua. These were to hand last week and have made no difference in the quotation. Sugars, as we mentioned in our previous report, have become weak. 'Ihe quotation for Company's No. 2 is £54, a vory unremunemtive price to importers when it is considered that tho cost laid do* n is £52 10s at least. Teas (ire-firm in price, and stocks are anything but heavy. There has be«n no-movement whatever in hama o> baofen during th£ week...

Mr. G.W. Binney reports the: following sales for the week Ex John Penn/lrom Nelson: Carrots, £6 per ton; potatoes, £8; onions, 5d per lb. Ex sundries i Chaff, £15 per ton ; Gawn's flour, £22 ; Wood's, £20; Green's, Tasmanian, £20 ; Byasa's porter, 12b per dozen ; green peas, 2d per lb.— West Coast Times, Sept. 28. NELSON. Messrs. Rod and Hounsell quote fine flour at £22 per ton; Mr. D. Moore quotes P.edwood's beet Wnirau at current rates. W heat, per bushel, from 8s to 9s ; barloy, 5a 6d to Gs. Oatß, 3s 6d to 3s 9d. Potatoes, £4 10s to £5 10s per ton; Hobart Town seed, £7 per ton; hay, per ton, £5. Beer, per lilid., £6 ; per dozen, Ss.—Examiner, October 2. ADELAIDE. The corn market is very dull; buyers ara holding back, and do not seem inclined to purchase at the present rates. Wheat is nominally 6s to 6s 6d,and flour is quoted at £15. MELBOURNE. A fair amount of busir.cis continues to be done in the import marked. In breadstuff*, the foeling prevalent to-day is less firm, and for trade purposes sales could not be effected at ovet £17 for flour, whilo larger lots have been quitted p-t £16 10?. Small parcels of Victorian wheat hays found buyers at 7s. 9d, The arrival at Sydney of the Don Teodoro, from Chili, with a cargo of 800 tons wheat and flour, as telegraphed this afternoon, has not done the market any good.: Oats are quiet, but very firm and steady, at 3s. lOd.to 4s. Mai/.e meets with a very free sale at 3s. lid. to 45., and from the higher rates required in Sjdney, it is not likely that to-morrow thero will be any sellers under 4s. A shipment of 1,700 bushels chevalier barley has been got rid of, to arrivo, at 6s. 6d. At the sale of Edith Banfield's cargo of

Mauritius "Bugars, the whole lot, within a few hundred bags, met with, purchasers at improved prices for their finer sorts. Somo 8,100 bags were offered. 24s •6d was obtained for very low to 27s 6d for - good rations, 30s 6d to 31sf for-browns, 32s 3d to 35s 6d for middling to fine yellows, and 35s 6d to 37s 9d for middling to good white crystals. A decline on browns and low yellows of ioi to 20s had to be submitted to. Sales of comsucks are mentioned at lis 6d. Wa hear'of t'ne disposal of some 5,000 bags Saigon rice, ex King Oscar, on terms not dißclosed. We understand that on Tuesday next 150 tons Baedgho Bajah fine Java table .rice wiU be offered by public auction. We hoar of the sale 'of the choicest description of fancy teas by the Coryphcous to the extent of 450 boxes, and consisting of short leaf, orange pelioe, gunpowder, and young hyson. The quality is said to bo very suporior. A shipment of 300 bottles quicksilver is reported to have found a purchaser at close on 2s. For timber advanced rates continue to bo realised. Liquids meet with but a slow sale at 'present. Whitbread's bulk stout has been placed at £8 10a. Bortliwick's bottled stout is quitted at 8s 6d'for trado purposes ; a considerable parcel has been takonupon terms withheld. Sales of Hennessy'a caso brandy havo come under our notice at 27s, —Argus, September 19

ENGLISH COMMERCIAL. The third oerioa of London oolonial wool sales has been fixed to commonco on Thursday, the 13th Ausuat. The following ara the quantities arrived up to date :—59,920 ablca Port Philip ; 54,714, Sydney ; 39,058, T ew Zealand; 9,628, Adelaide ; 8,477, Van Dimon'3 Land ; and 10,319, Capo; total, 190,011 bales. Furthor 20,000 bales may be expected to arrive in time, making the 'probable total of 270,000 bales. There is not much spirit in business, but the trade is everywhere well employed, and in the faco of a. good harvest all over tho world consumption may towards the fall of tho year, be expected to receive a mora powerful impotus than it has for the last couple of years. Last sales' closing prioes will, under thoiie circumstances, be probably firmly maintained. Colonial Securities. —New Zealand and Australian securities generally have been strongly supported. Now South Wales Government five per cents., 1871 to 1576, 99 to 101 ; January and July, 99 to 101 ; ditto, five por cents., 1888 to 1896, January and July, 99 to 100.. New Zealand fire per cents, 97 to 99 ; ditto, sis.per cents., 1891, June and Dec., 109 to 111. Queensland, six per cents., 1891, January and July, 105 to 106. South Australian, six per cents/, 1878 to 1892, 108 to 111 ; ditto, -1893 to 1900,110 to 112. Tasmania, six per cent., 1895, •January and July, 104 to 106. Victoria, six per cent?., 1891, January to July, 113 to 115 ; ditto, April and October, 114 to 116. The July diridends are deducted in these quotations.