COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4488, 1 April 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Friday evening. The Customs duties for today amounted to £1575 I9a 3d. The vessels arrived daring the week have been in excess of the previous week, including one or two from Newcastle, others from Southern ports, &c. The imports during the week have been trifling in respect to Southern produce, the grain markets not being fairly opened. At present it is next to impossible to give quotations of flour and grain. The auction sales give no reliable infoi&ation, and therefore, we must await further advices. Auckland flour remains at £14 and £12 respectively; bran, £6 os ; in horsefeed, no new oats received, old oats selling at 2s 9rl ; maize, 3s Gd to 3s 9d. The market inactive. The returns of imports give very few receipts up to date. It is impossible to conjecture what will be the issue in connection with consignments to the market. The influx of goods ex the Merwanjeo Framjee and ex Brodick <~! aa tle must have some influence on the ruling prices in the market. The Dilpussuud is due from London, and will bring additional stocks. In the meautime tlie auction marts are recipients, especially in groceries. Business may be considered fair and likely to improve. The only thing to report in sugars 13 that Messrs. Tonks and Co. have sold their last consignment of Fiji at from £23 to £28 15s.

Mr. E. Arthur reports a largo atteudanco at his auction to day, and smart competition. Potatoes sold at 4s to 4s Cd ; onions, Jd to Id per lb. ,• pumpkins, 6s to Gs Gd; marrows, 4s; cheese, 3d to Gid; bacon and hams, 4d to lid per lb. ; carrots, 5s 3d; butter (pastry), Sjd to 9cl; oats, 3s 2d ; maize, 3s 10d; maize (damaged), 2s 5d to 2s 9d per bushel; household soap, Io3; tea (boxes), 19s to 223 ; sardine 3 (quarter), 4s to 5s per dozen ; raisins, 4d to perlb. ; apples, b'Jd to 3d ; beef, ljd to Igd per lb. Household furniture, 4c., at fair prices. The clearing-out sale at ™P ornweU ' a ol< i premises passed off well. There was a good attendance, to-day, at Mr. Sibbin's, at the Corner Mart. Maize realised 3s Gd; oats, 2s 9d; rice, lid: pearl barley, 12s Gd per cwt-; cheese, 3d to 7d, according to quality ; potatoes, 4s ; tea 2s 3d to 3s Gd ; sugar, 4£d to 5d ; candles lid ; kerosene, 2s 4d ; suet, 70s ; onions, Jd to Id*

Mr. Levi W. Eaton held his Friday's fruit sale, at his Queen-street I>lart, per Jane, from Hobart Town, when fair prices were obtained. Apples sold from to 3d. Afessrs. B. Touks and Cu., of the Brunswick Auction Mart, sold a number of lines of wheat (fowl feed) at 2s 6d per bushel. At Messrs. Cochrane's furniture sale, good prices were secured ; bidding spirited. At Mr. Greenwood's sale of poultry, produce, &c, held in the jUarket-house this day, at noon, there was a large amount of poultry sold, and prices realised as follows: —Turkeys, 3s to 4s 6d each; fowls, Is 3d to 2s 10d each ; chicks, 9d to Is 3d each ; ducks. Is 3d to 2s 2d each; rabbits, Is 2d each ; pigeons, Is each ; canaries, 5s each; potatoes, 3s to 4s per cwt. ; onions, id per lb. ; eggs, 6d, 9d, Is 3d, and Is Cd per doz. Furniture realised firm prices.