COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5638, 11 December 1879, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office. | "Wednesday evening. The duties collected at the Customs to-day were £011 ISi 7d. Messrs. B. Tonks and Co. held a largeltrade sale yesterday of oilmen 3 stores, groceries, dried and bottled fruit, preserved ginger* &c. The attendance of the trade was large, and the lines realised fair prices. Messrs. B. Tonks and Co. sole this morning, by order of the Harbour Board, the lease for 12 months of the storage sheds on the Queen-street and Itailway Wharves. Shed A, eastern tee Queen-street Wharf, £23 per month, purchaser Mr. S. A. Beardsley; shed D, western tee, I £17, Mr. William Cruickshank ; shed C, main , wharf, £3 53, Captain Nearing; shed C, Ferry tee, £3, Kaipara Steamship Company ; shed E, Railway Wharf, £4 15s, Mr. William Cruickshank. The total being £012 perannum, or less by £0 than the year just closing. The old shed, for removal at the silt basin, £4 2s Gd; at dock yard, £IG. Mr. K. C. Greenwood offered this morning to public competition 17 building allotments at Paruell, with ltetreat Cottage and grounds at Newmarket, the property of Mr. Jame3 Mason. Bidding did not reach the reserve figures, aud the whole were withdrawn for private sale. SYDNEY. The Jit)aid of the 4th inst., referring to the market, says :—ln the import market, there was a fair amount of business doing at prices sustaining late quotations. Breadstu/fs steady ; holders of wheat decline to accept less than Gs, and as new grain was quoted at 5s 2d in Adelaide to-day, prices are not expected to recede. Building materials firm, !ll)i paid for an outside lot of Knight, Bevan, aud Sturge's, butth?t figure would not be accepted by the agents, who are holding for l'Js Gd. There is good inquiry for fish. Herrings and ling rather scarce, lib. salmon moving at Ss to Ss 3:1 for good brands of old. Sugars in active request. Messrs. Fraser and Co. disposed of a quantity of colonial this morning at rates sustaining the late advance. Several lines of half-sardines were placed at Gs 4d to Gs Gd.; a small Jot of coloured twine at and sundries at current rates. We heard of a private sale of 20 tons low yellow Mauritius at £31. In liquors only a limited business was transacted; Hennessy's case brandy moving; at 35s ; large contents geneva at up to 13s. Rock salt has had a further advance of 2s Gd per ton; coarse Liverpool commands £G. Eleme raisins very scaarce ; asked for small lots. There is a 1 steady sale for currants at up to f>Jd for best j

new. Figs quite out of stock. Malt is rising 10s to 10s 3d required for s,nall prime lots o last season's. There is inquiry for bottled ale with sales at up to lis 3d ; bulk in limited re quest. There ha 3 been a speculative movement in teas, as weU as fair sales for trade requirements, and values Are hardening. Rice very j firm, and saleable at up to £23. j CALLS ASD DIVIDENDS.

p.jr-— £ 3. d. When Jus. 0 2 6 — Dec. 14 .. •» 020 — Dec. 35 II .. .. 0 2 C — Dec. 17