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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6813, 18 September 1883, Page 4

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Nsw Zealand Herald OBice. Monday evening. The duties on Saturday amounted to £352 17s 6.1, and to-day £2044 2s lid. The duties collected at the Customs during last week amounted to :— Dnties _ £6,38S 17 1 Light dues 10 1* 8 Forms and fees U 10 0 Beerduty 238 12 3 Gold duty 310 16 0 Other receipts 4 3 0 £0.999 3 0 LONDON. Our advices are to the 9th of August. The New ZeaUnd Loan a d M-rcadtile Agency Company's circular of the abovo da.e gives tho following quotations :— Wool.—There has been a fair enquiry during tho past fortnight, but though several sales have been made by privnte treaty, the quantities disposed of have small, and do not represent in the aggregate any important total. At the public sales at Antwerp, which are still in progress, and which will close on 10th instant, competition and prices have on the whole slightly hardened. In the general conditions upon which the trade depends, there has latterly been but little change. The requirements of machinery remain no duubt very considerable, but the margin upon which manufacturers and spinners are now working is ex'retnely narrow. Corn Moikkt.—During tho past two woeks there has been some improvement in the gen ral harvest prospects, though the weather has b*cn somewhat unsettled, and rust and red maggot are reported as prevalent in certain districts. The temporature in the nUht time has been considerably higher, but continued sunshine Is now much needed. Winter barley and oats are being harvested a d, in exceptionally early districts, wheat has been cut. but harvest operations will not be general for another week or ton days. In France considerable da • age has been done, ind harvest work retarded, by continuous rains, but the most recent retorts are moro favourable. The wea;her in Germany has boen unsettled, but on the Danube, harvest orations are rapidly Oeing carried on. The accounts from America are not satisfactory. To-day's quotations ex granary are as follows:— Wheat, Australian, 43s to 49s per 4981b5.; New Zealand, lone-berried. 47s to 49s ; New Zealand, average, 45s Gd to 46s Od; New Zealand, inferior, 42s to 44s ; Hour, Australian superfine. 32a Od per 2Solbs. gross : Australian fine, 30s to 31s; New Zealand patent, 32s 6d to 33s 6d; New Zealand fine. 29s to 31s; barley, New Zealand, 34s to 35a per 44>'lbs.; Oats, Now Zealand fine, 32s to 31s per i'mponal quarter ; oats, New Z-aiand ordinary, 26s «o 275; beans, 41s to 42s per OMIbJ.

Tallow.—During the past fortnight, a total of 2372 casks of Australian and New Zealand has been offered at the usual public sales, and of this quantity 1502 passed the hammer. We quote :—P.Y.C. new. 51s to Dls 6d per cwt»; Australian mutton, fine, 41s 6d to 425; Australian medium, 40s to 41s ; Australian beef, tine, 40s 6d to 41s; Australian medium, 39s (3d to 40s,

Leather.—Wo quote :—Fair to good sfdes, heavy, 141bs. to 17Jlrjs. average lOd to 11 Jd per lb.; light, 91bs. to lllbs., lCd to lljd;eitra feavy, l7Jlbs. to 221ba, 9Jd to lid; seconds, to 16glbs., 9d to9|d. Basils.—We quoto:—Best strainod skins, averaging 6lbs. to 2ljlbs. per dozen, 15Jd to 17id per lb.; second*, averaging OJlbs. to 22jlbs. per dozen, lid to 14jd; unstrained, averaging7Jbs. to 61bs. per dozen, Sltol3ld.

Salted Hides.—We quote :—Sydney heavy ox, s£d to s|d per lb.; Sydney light ox, 4j>d to 5J.1 ; Sydney seconds, 4;d to 4Jd ; Sydney cow. 4jd to 5Jd. Paeskrvrd Me ts.—We quote :-Boiled mutton, 21b.-tins, 5Jd to 5Jd per lb.; 41b.-tins, 04 to ojd ; 61b.tim, l-jd to4sd. .Boiled beef. 2'b.-tins. 61d to sid per lb.; 41b.-tins, 4Jd to 4Jd ; Glb.-tinp, 4}d to 4Jd. Babbit Skixii.—We repeat our lust quotations :— Good to prime winler skins, averaging ljlbs. to 2?lb:i. per dozen, 2s Ojd to 2s 7.Jd por lb.; fair ordinary to good, averaging ljlbs. to 2Jlbs. per dozen, Is GJd to 2s Old ; common and low season, averaging ljlbs. to 21bs. per ■ ozen, 9d to Is 4}<t; small and suckoru, averaging Jib. to Jib. per dozeD, 3d to 9Jd. ilixosi Bark.—Wo quote :—Adelaide, ground, in bags, £13 to £15 5s por ton; Adelaide chopped, in bags, £12 to £13 10s; Mel»oumo cround, in bags, £12 to£lSlss» Melbourne chopped, in bags, £11 to £12 15s ; Melbourne long, in bags, £8 to £9. Cotioj;.—ln F,ji descriptions there Is but little busine>s passing, though bad supplies been more plODtlful a fair trado might havo been done. Tahiti neglected.

Copra.—There ha 3 been a fair market at previous rates—viz., £20 per ton for fair average Sydney sundried, and £18 7a Cd per ton for kiln-dried. The importations into London in July amounted to 197 tons.

New Zealand Hkmp.—Nothing of importance has transpired in this market since our last issue. We quote—Common, £22 to £23 per ton ; good medium, £25 ; good, £24 ; fine £30 per ton.

Kauri Gom.—We have to report a quiet market in this also, pending the offering of the now arrivals (about 1800 cases) on the 10th instant. At auction, held on tho 2nd instant, 117 casos wire offered, and GO cases sold at steady prices. We repe .t quotations as in last circular:—Extra pale, selected, £11 10s per cwt.; clean, hard, fine, £7 10s to£B 2sGd; good to fine, clean, hard scraped, £114s to £5 Is ; hard, rough, half-coated, £2 17s to £3 3s ; rough io good sorts, £2 8s to £2 12s ; pickings, low to good, £1 7s to £2 13s; chips, low to fine., 12s to £3 12s; dust, low to fine, 8s to £110s.

AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. September 18, 1888. Company. Badness. Closing Prices. Bahkb— Buyers.! Sellers. New Zealand .. — — 3 12 6 Colonial .. .. — —250 Insurances— Union .. .. — 14 3' — .«ccldent .. — 0 7 0 — MrSOELLANtOCS— Auckland Gas .. — ~ 9 15 0 U. Sash & Door .. — _ 7 12 6 N.Z. Loan and Mer. — — 5 15 0 Mercury Bay .. — — 0 14 0 Mining— Moanatalarl — — — 0 12 0 Quoen of Beauty .. — 0 0 0| 0 7 0 Deep Level Cross .. — 0 3 2. — Prince Imperial .. 39/ 118 0 2 0 0 Waitoki .. .. — 0 3 6 0 3 9 Waiorongomai .. — —018 Vulcan .. .. — —036 Werahiko .... — 0 5 0 0 5 3 Waitoki Extended — 0 0 9' 0 1 C New Find .. .. — —090 Victoria .. .. — — 0 11 Tiamond Gully .. — — 0 3 6 Vermont .. .. •— — 0 2 0 Lucky Hill.. .. \— —'030 A. Saunders, C. Alexander's." Vickers7~J. — F.Clarke, It. Frater, John Mowbray, R. Homo, J. B. Morpeth, J. M. Lennox, W. Flood, n. J. Wickens, D. BMcDonald, D. G. MacDonnoll, Altken Carries:, E. Spratt, Francis Hull. Joseph Newmaw, Chairman. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. The following are the current calls and dividends of the companies named below, as certified In our advertising columns :— oallk. £ s. d. Dat« Humphrey's Gully U.G.M.Co. 0 1 0 — Sept. 21 Arch Hill Brick and Tile Co. 0 1 0 — Sept. 24 Auekland Brick and Tile Co. 0 10 0 — Sept. 24 Northern Omnibus Co. ..026 — Sopt. 29 Coro. Just-in-Timo G.M.Co:.. 0 1 0 — Oct. 10 lona G.M.Co 0 0 6 — Oct. 10 DIVIDEND. Kempthorne Prosscr and Co, 10 por cent. Sept. 17 Bank of Australasia .. .. 14 per cent Oct. 5