COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume IX, Issue 2489, 17 January 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Ueh&t.d Ofiice, Tuesday afternoon. We have not yet given a. summary of the principal imports ami exports for t.lie current year. They have been—Per St. Kildu, from Wanganui : 14 head cattle, 600 sheep. Per Keera: iSO sheep. Per Taranaki : 30 lambs. Per St. Kildu, 12th instant: 31 head cuttle, •100 sheep, and 2 horses. Per l'licebe : 27 horses. Per Wallubi: 60 head cattle, 250 sheep. Total: 10S head cattle, 1400 sheep, 29 horses, and 30 lambs. i The goods and produce imports have been —Per l'licebe : 65 sacks malt, 20 ha'.f-chests 23 boxes tea, 20 tons Hour, 75 sacks bran, 9 cases bacon, 12 eases hams, 10 cases cheese, 20 packages butter, 3 packages eggs, 1300 ozs. gold. Per Keera: 50 sacks mult, 25 cases hums, 10 cases cheese, 60 cases green fruit, and sundries. Per Nebraska, arrived from Honolulu Sth instant : 5 packages Calil'ornian wine (the second shipment), 735 bags salt, and sundries. Per Taranaki :50 sacks malt, 25 tierces beef, 1 ditto pork, IS packages butter and eggs, 8 quarter-casiis wine, 620 ozs. 1 dwts. gold, and sundries. Per Hero : 37 chests, 93S half-chests, 515 boxes lea (about iS.SOO lbs.), 50 bags, 1317 mats, 1010 gunnies sugar (about 170,000 lbs.), 22 eases, 1G three-quarter boxes, 3-1 packages, 15 boxes tobacco, and 11 cases cigars and tobacco, 100 boxes candles, 70 barrels currants, 20 boxes raisins, 150 bags rice, 10 bags coliee, 200 casks cement, 5 cases vestas, about 30 bales paper, 75 drums oil, 25 cases wood chairs, 72 quarter casks 100 cases wine, 10 160 eases brandy, 00 cases old torn, 10SG cases green fruit, and a large general assortment, chiefly of hardware and machinery. Total of produce, Sec, for the year: 165 sacks malt, 75 sacks bran, 20 tons flour, 9 casus bacon, 37 cases hams, 211 cases cheese, II packages butter and eggs, 26 tierces beef aud pork, and 11 ;0 cases green fruit. Per Keuilwortb, from Levuka, itc. : 42 bales cotton, 30 bales wool, 50 tons colza, and 20 casks oil. Per Seluia, from Tahiti: a full cargo of cotton. The ship Chile sailed for Port Underwood on the sth of January. The exports have been various to Southern ports, and 10,000 feet timber have gone to Levuka. The market has undergone little or no change in prices, and a moderate amount of business has been transacted. It will be noticed that the Hero has brought a. valuable cargo this time, including a month's supply of teas. It will be recollected, some few weeks back we announced the arrival of travellers representing Melbourne tea houses, aud the above is the result of their operations. The shipments of tea and other goods have been pretty well distributed throughout the trade. In our last commercial report we announced an advance in best mill flour only, and ou Adelaide of £1 per ton. Prices, therefore, arc now:—Fino flour, silk-dressed, from Adelaide wheat, £10 per ton (bags extra) ; Adelaide flour, town brands, £10 pelton (bags given in) ; household flour, £14 per ton; seconds, £12 ; sharps, £7; bran, Is 6d per bushel ; finest oats, 3s 9d per bu-Oiel. The cargo of the li'airy Kock, with 82 tons of ' flour aud 148 tons of wheat, changed hands i before landing at prices withheld, but sup- [ posed to be full rates, as tho llax noticed above advanced immediately afterwards to £1 per ton. The Prima Donna, from Sydney, has delivered 3186 bushels of maize. The quotations for Sydney maize is 4s 3d to 4s 6d, bushel terms. The mining share market, lias been in a very depressed stato, and a great many calls liavo been made in old and new companies, which, showing, as they do, great activity in mining operations, nevertheless press rather heavily on some of tho holders of scrip. To-day's quotations will be found in the sharcbrokers' reports. Green and ripe fruits, ex Hero, have been sold as follows : —Orauges, 9s to 13s per case ; apples, 2id to 3,Vd per lb.; pears, 2d to 2-Jd per lb.; plums, lid to s|d per lb. ; pine apples, 6s 6d to 7s per dozen ; peaeho3, ljd to 6Jd per lb.; nectarines, 4Jd to 5d per lb.; lemons, 9s 3d a case; passion fruit, 7s 9d to 8s 6d a case. Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co. Bold to-day at their stores, a largo quantity of drapery, &c., to close consignments. There was a good attendance of the trade, and the prices realised were on tho whole satisfactory.