COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4404, 24 December 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand T1 fbald Office, Thursday evening. The duties collected at the Customs amounted to £5<3 8< 2d. During the p.i3t week there have been six arrivals from the South with produce, emimerrted below. The Co's s.s. Lewellyn has returned from Fiji with 399 bags maiz*. 10 bale 3 cotton, and 174 mats sngar. s.s. Emu also, brings from the same islands 1437 b*gs maize. A cargo of guano, consisting of 00 tons, has arrived from the Caroline Group in the l-rigantine "Walter Clendinning. The only arrival of Newcastle coal lately is 52S tons, in the bnsantine Frances Le.vey, for the Gas Company. The yards are, however, well stocked with household coal at pre«ent. From LytMton we have the schooners Flirt and Transit, the combined cargo of which cf 1-5C2 sacks wheat and 25 cases baron. The fcarque Lizzie Fox, from New York vii Dunedii?, brings a consignment of American coods and sundry cargo, shipped at Dunedin. The barque, Florence from Uunedin, has landed 1200 bags flour, 250 half-bags and 500 quarter-bag* flour, 15 sacks barley, and 234 bnps bran. Both these latter ■vessels are laid on the berth for New York, the latter being now nearly loaded with Kauri gum. The cargo .of the Kate Brain, from Oamaru, consists of 1220 sacks flour 470 bags and SSO half-bags flour, besides sundry cargo; and the brieantine Treveleren Family, from Dunedin. brines 3215 packages flour, 107 packages barley, 87 casks ale and stout, and sundries. Fiji maize realised at auction, on ?s 9d to 3s lOd according to quality. There is very little else to report Ueyoad preparations for Christmas, otherwise the ai&tket is in au inactive state.

AUCKLAND LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Mr. Alfked Buck land's "Weekly Report.— At the Haymarket, on Friday last, a larger muster than customary of liorse stock met with a dull sale. Heavy draught colts were withdrawn. Hiding and light-harness horses were sold, hut at low values, abare thirty bringing from £5 to £14 each, averaging about £7. Maize, 43 the bushel. An unusually large sale of hides, skins, and bag 3 of wool was he'd in the afternoon: 365 lots sold. There was a full attendance of the trfcde, and the bidding was steady throughout. Previous rates were obtained. On "Wednesday about 400 bales of wool were sold. For greasy wool there was more competition but washed wools were relatively dull of sale; prices •btained varied very slightly from previous auctions. At Remuera on Thursday, few dairy cattle were brought forward; these were in fair enquiry. Store cattle is usual supply and dull of sale. Fat cattle in less than average numbers: 80 head penned, mostly of good quality. Very prime quality maintained last week|s value; medium, dull of sale and slightly lower; inferior, at nominal prices. Sheep were in full supply of Lirge size and better than usual quality. Prices, xewpr than last weeV, Jd the lb. Lambs abundant, many of them of choice quality and without alteration in yalues. "Well-bred fat pigs in fair supply and in . good demand at full values. Store piga, lover in tanked from £7 to £10; fat cattle, 25s to 30s the 100 lb3; fat sheep, 2.? d to 3d the lb; - lambs, 9s to 14s Gd each. Messrs Hunter avdNolan's Report.—Horses: There has been a very lar ce supply, and fair demand. On Friday there were an unusually large number of entries for sale by auction. For younsr stock the .bidding was brisk, particularly for those of a good stamp, nearly nil in wpre disposed of at prices satisfactory to the vendor-. "We quote hacks from £8 to £15 10s; light harness, £14 to £21 ss, At Newmarket, on Tuesday, there was a very'good muster of dairy and store stock, and a large one of fat beasts. Being Christmas market, some really top sorts were brought forward, and wellcompeted for, at 30a per 100 1b3., but there was a marked indisposition to exceed that price, even for the very 2>est] animals. The (dairy cows submitted were not of a very good description, hut fully maintained late quotations. The demand for Btores ■continuous • and prices are maintained. We quote, dairy cows, from £6 to £10 ss: yearlings, from £2 2s to £3 ss; two-ynar-old steers, £4 15s to £5 2s; three-year-old steers, £6 to £0 12s 6d; and store cows, from £4 to £5 2s tiiL • Sheep:. The pens were well filled. There were an \inusually largo number of s-ores, but several pens were in very low condition, the result of overstocking. Some of the fat sheep were very prime; juice* ranged from 23 to 2d per S lbs; best wethers sold from 17s to 21s; store wethers, in low condition, 7b tirt to 10s 9d; Btore half-bred ewes, Cs to 10s Gdeach. iLaiulw were sufficiently numerous, but of small size, and sold from 7s to 14s -3d. Pigs: Very scarce, and realised extreme rates, which would not be cairent