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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 4

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1 Nbw Zealand Herald Office, Frisday evening. '■ Tho Customs duties collected to-day amounted to £456 6s 3d. ', The following is tho declared value of the • cargo of the burquo Alastor, which cleared at tho Customs this afternoon for London : — £ £ Gain 523 lons .. 20 710 Clothtn? .. .. 185 Wool. 101.0001b5.. 8,391 Candleouts, 12 tons 120 Leather .. .. 3.7C1 Sundries .. .. 121 Tallow, 38 tons .. 916 Oorios .. .. 100 Manganese, 157 tons 6-23 ' Zinc 70 ! Copra, 32 tons .. 470 Beeswax .. .. 3S Bark, 32 tons .. 575 Bones ami horns.. 3) \ Cotton, G3l2lbs .- 3.0 Whalebono .. 20 L £37.250 Mr. R. Arthur's sales to-day were well at--6 tended throughout, and a fair amount of busiHB3S was done. Poultry seld vory well. Pota--3 toes are not in such good demand as thoy ' have been for somo timo past ; for many j samples a. lower figure has had to be taken to effect a sale. Onions have come to hand more 1 freely ; price continues about the same. Cheese 1 much wanted, but little first-class offering. • Butter of good quality is in a little better de- » maud. Bacon of good sample is in demand. 1 Fruit has sold during the week at high figures. • Fowls sold at Is 7d to 3s ; ducks, Is 8d to 3s s Id ; geese, 4s 6d ; pigs (small), 6s te 10s 6d ; ' potatoes, 5s to Cs 6d ; small potatoes, 3a ; kid- " ney, 10a; pumpkins, 3s; swedes, Is9d to 2s 3d ; r onions. Ad to 3d ; carrots, 3s Gd ; maizo (N.Z.), 1 4s ; whe it, 4s ; oats, 3s to 3s 6d ; bran, 6s Cd ; 1 sharps, 7s 6d ; flour (sacks), £10 ; bacon, 4d to ! 9(1 ; lard (bladder), 7Jd to 8d j butter, 9d to : lid; beof, 2.W ; cheese, 2Jd to 9d ; tea (box), 24s to 2Gs ; rice, 3d ; salmon, 6s Gd to 7s Gd ; 1 oatmeal, 2Jd ; sugar, 4Jd to 4Jd ; soap, lGs ; white lead, 4id ; white zinc, 3Ad ; candles, ; corn-flour, 7M ; bine, 9.Jd ; tobacco, 2s 9d. All second-hand"furniture sold at good prices.