COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9131, 13 August 1888, Page 12

COMMERCIAL.

AUCTION SALES.

New Zealand Herald Office. Saturday afternoon. The month's business lias been entirely unmarked by any special features, and dullness has been the prominent characteristic. The effect of the increased duties on prices has undoubtedly curtailed the volume of trade. The arrival of the s.s. Coptic, and the sailing vessel Piako, from London, has materially helped importers' in ability to till requirements. Labour generally is poorly requited, and remunerative employment is scarce. These facts have affected trade adversely. The speculative disposition on the part of English and Austrasian capitalists to purchase mining properties in this district is incrcas. ing, and while the financial inability to fill all the requirements of working them, including the call for machinery and plant, recommend their disposal to non-residents, even at prices immeasurably below their instrinsic worth, the opinion is pretty general that it is better to sell at low prices than hold what we are not able to properly and effectively work. Increased trade will certainly follow from the introduction of the necessary capital, and the belief is general that the ventures in themselves will prove highly profitable to the investors. The Kauri limber Company have taken over the principal timber businesses of the province, and the prospect of a better business next month from this circumstance is good. Only a slight trade has been done with the timber districts lately. The depression in the kauri gum market has been seriously felt. Bank accommodation is generally restrictive, and considerable caution is adopted in commercial and financial circles. Investment money is abundant, and interest rates on unexceptionable securities are lower. With the advance of the season into spring 8. bettor tone in trade circles is looked for; in the meantime we have only to report a quiet, uninteresting state of affairs. In bottled ale and stout, stocks of quarts are full, but in pints the demand has been above supply, and sales have fallen through in leading brands from insufficiency. A scarcity of bulk whisky has firmed the market; in case stuff prices are little altered. Hennessey One-star brandy has continued in low stock ; importers obtain such bare profits in selling wholesale that there is little catering except for the hotel client trade. Walker's and Usher's case whisky keep in strong demand. Rather better inquiry has been met with in wines. In Geneva and rum, sales have been rather slow. Greater firmness has been imparted to the wheat market by the character of the home reports, and values have risen 2d per bushel. Cement is fairly well supplied. The demand is limited to the requirements for plastering. Candles are in abundant supply, the bulk of the trade being done in New Zealand made, imported descriptions suffer in de. mand except for the highest class tradeThe demand for the mines keeps up fairly well; the market for imported may be reported as easier. In bags and bagging, woolpacks are weaker, Melbourne holders being rather bitten by the overloaded state of that I'arkefc, ana are pressing sales in other colonies to relieve themselves. Cornsacks, on the other hand, are in short stock. The tenderly of prices is upward until the Te Kapo am. eg from Calcutta, which will be some considerable time yet. Coffee is firmer. The short stocks in London have attracted notice.

Cocoa: The supply of Fry's has runout. Demand has been good. Chemicals are steady at last month's rates. Soda crystal- are in full supply. IV ted fruits are a trifle better. Currants exhibit a distinctly upward tendency. It is whispereu the Australian speculators are

likely to make a corner in this line, now that the season justifies expectation of a largely increased demand. Stocks of denies are not heavy, and prices are firm. Sultanas remain without alteration. Table fruits (California!)) keep exceedingly dull. Jams arc also remarkably inactive. The increased duty on pulp has been more than counterbalanced by a fallingoff in demand, so that holders' views are not so sanguine. Fish has remained dull. The increased duty of Id per lb on tinned has seriously affected tine demand from the trade. Stocks of salmon are extremely light. At this particular season trade in fish is generally quiet. Galvanised Iron : The market is well supplied. There is no alteration in prices, with only a limited business. In fencing-wire, up to the arrival of the Piako stocks were scarce. An average business is reported. Tin Plates : These are scarce and in considerable demand, locally and interprovincially. American plaster is not in over-supply, with price at 14s, duty paid. Blasting - powder : English brands are worth (id and German Hd. Consignments to the South are being offered at low rates to realise and send account sales.

Wire Nails : The market has been bare with firm to high prices as the rule. Recent arrivals have a little eased the stringency, but holders are indisposed to lower quotations. Kerosene has been in unusually light stock, and the market has been ruled by very few holders. Low teat is worth Is Id and 150 test Is Id in bond. The Albert Russell, from New York via Wellington is due in a fortnight, when it is expected there will be a slight drop. Raw linseed oil is very scarce; boiled is in low stock ; castor, average supply, with little difference in general inquiry. Pepper is hardening under Singapore advices.

Rice r A drop took place after the arrival of the Taiyuan with new season's teas to Wellington, and which steamer brought nearly 100 tons of rice for this port. Later advices from the Fast are, however, so favourable to holders that the market is again firming. Sago ami tapioca have remained unchanged during the month. White sugars have been selling at unchanged rates. Brewers' crystals are offering more plentifully. Low grade sugars are ipiittable at full prices, the market being bare. New season's sugar from Fiji is expected next month. Broken loaf, tablet, and cube are in better demand.

Salt has been placed in large parcels. The loss of the Border Chief with 1500 tons for Australia has not affected this market, but prevents importation from Sydney and Melbourne, and to this extent strengthens the hands of direct importers. The extremely high freight rates by steamer, with the new duty of 10s per ton., have completely altered the old fashioned ideas of value, and what are generally thought high prices, we understand give a very small importing profit. The new season's teas from China are moving off quietly. Good business is reported in Indian's, In the tobacco trade there is the periodical scarcity of Derby. Orders are frequently given a month in advance of requirement, in order to secure a better chance of obtaining this brand. In the lower-priced tobaccos the trade is split up among Venus, Signet, Juno, (Jem of the Sea, and Josephine principally. There is less doing in nromatics, when smokers can obtain Derby or Columbia. The fastidiousness for bright descriptions is less pronounced. Matches have commanded the usual good business. Bryant and May's ovals, so long out of stock, are now in the market again. The dislocation of prices consequent on the altered duty is not so marked as last month. Tariff quotations according to parcel are again fixed, and a steadier trade has resulted. Some off condition, R. Bell and Co.'s plaids, have weakened the inquiry for this brand, but their tinned goods command a strong sale. Business in Pace's, Bell and Black's, and Bryant and May's plaids has been over the average. Slates are in no demand, and in the present dullness of the building trade few are coining forward.

Vinegar : The season is too cold for much of this article being used. _ Stocks are large. A little export business in bottled has been one with the Islands.

When last mail left the kauri gum market evinced a downward tendency. Prices declined from £1 to £2 last month, and last week fell about £2 further, leaving us at present with an unsettled market. But although (if supplies are not otherwise checked) prices may fall further when our poorer summer gum begins, buyers state that they find recent reduction in ice result in the scraping and'quality of the gum falling off proportionately, and they believe that any further reduction on the low prices now ruling (which are lower than they have been since 1878) would either drive most of the diggers off the fields or would result in the delivery of poorer and poorer quality. They base these views on the following facts, viz. : —That gum is naturally much scarcer than it was in 1878, and that as at present rates diggers cannot earn over from 10s to l'2s weekly, it is impossible that they can live and give the necessary time to properly scrape the gum, besides which it is well known the depression in this colony has driven many men to dig who are unused to the work and who cannot afford to reject what inferior gum they pick up. Our season, too, this year is unusually early, and should this continue our poorer summer supplies cannot be far off. The Mercia sailed on the 24th July with 320 tons, and the s.s. Coptic on the sth instant with about 70 tons—both for London. The Albert Russell will sail for New York early in .September. .Supplies from mail to mail are about 665 tons. We quote : —Prices current during the month: Fair ordinary, 32s ; best ordinary, 34s ; East Coast, 445. Prices quoted but not yet established : Fair ordinary, 28s to 20s; best ordinary, 30s; East Coast, 445.

August 1. Messrs. Samuel Cochrane and Son sold by auction, to-day, a number of properties under the Rating Act. There was a large attendance, and very spirited bidding; with one exception all the lots were sold. The following were the prices realised :— S.E. part lot 134, and N.W. part lot 136, Matakohe, 40 acres, 4s 3d por acre; east part lot 41, Matakohe, 40 acres, 4s 6d per acne; east part lot 67, Omaru, 5-1 acres, 17s 3d per acre; lot 222, Pukeatua 42 acres, 3a 6d per acre; west part lot 207, Pukeatua, 3s 6d per acre; north part lot 134, Waiwera, 40 acres, 3s 6d per acre; north middle part, lot 134, Waiwera, 40 acres, 3s 6d per acre; kit 25, settlement of Kohekohe, 10 acres, £1 13s per acre; lot 90, Parish of Taupiri, 50 acres, 5s 6d per acre. Several Onehunga properties wore sold at the same time under the Rating Act, and realised the following prices:—Lot 118, sub-lot 11, section 3, 73 feet 6 inches to Card well-street, £14; lot 2, section 4, sub-lot 3, section 22, 31 feet to Hill-street, £7 10s; lot 0, section I, sub-lota 2. 3- 5 and 0, section 22, 21) feet to

Hill-street, £7 10s; lot 12, sub-lot 4, section 22, 30 feet to Maria-street, £7 10s; lots 13 and 14, sub-lots 6 and 8, section 17, 06 feet to Commerce-street, £8 each lot; lots 19 and 20, sub-lots 6 and 8, section 17, 66 feet to Com-merce-street, £7 each.

August 6. At noon to-day Messrs. S. Cochrane and Son offered several city and outside properties for sale. Allotment No. 71, section 32, with 109 links to Abererombie-street, 225 links deep, and with six cottages on it, was started at £100, and sold for £345. Three lots of 50 links frontage each to Lome-street, and 238 links deep, with cottages on each lot, were sold at £155 the lot. The lease for 40 years of a building site opposite the Government House in Symonds-street was put up, but found no bidders. A piece of land at Epsom, allotment 21, section 11, Hospital reserves, was to have been put up, but was withdrawn for a fortnight by the order of the Public Trustee. This is the allotment contemplated as site for new Refuge, when the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board have made up their minds what they are going to do. Fifty-nine acres at Pukeatua were put up, but withdrawn owing to too light bids.

August S.

Messrs. 1). F. Evans and Co., auctioneers, report concerning their property sale to-day : There was a very fair attendance, and after some spirited bidding, the property in Cobden-street—viz., a cottage and allotment, was knocked down to Mr. Gribbin for ±150. Subsequently the property off Howe-street— viz., a large freehold allotment, with seven cottages erected thereon, was quitted at the exceedingly low price of £530. This was in consequence of the owner, who is leaving the colony, being determined to realise at any sacrifice. Messrs. G. \V. Binney and Sons held a sale of fruit today at their "mart, and report Sydney oranges realised from 6s tofts 3d ; French, crabs, 10s ; stone pippins (small), 7s 6d, and Stunner's 9s per case.

Rates of Exchange on London.—Buying: 96 days, 1 per cent, discount; 60 days, i per cent, discount; 30 days, J per cent. Demand, par. Selling: 90 days, i per cunt, premium ; 60 days, } per cent, premium ; 30 days, lj per cent. Demand, lj percent, premium. Fixed deposit: 3 months, 2 per cent. ; 6 months, 3 per cent. ; 12 months, 4J per cent.

ALES and Porter,— in hulk (duty paid) per barrel : Bass's, £7 ; Ashhy's, £5. Ale (in bond) Tennent's, quarts, 4s to 5s ; Bass's Dogshead brand (Reads bottling): pints, lis; quarts, Sis 6d (inborn!); Bulldog (R. Porter and Co.'s bottling), lis and 8s; W. dinger's, 5s and 7s 3d; Ashby's, 0s 3d to »d ; Bass's (Blood bottlers), pints 4s, quarts 6s 6d. Anglo-Bavarian : pints 5s 6*l and Ss ; Boar's Head Stout : quarts, 8s 9d ; pint*, 6s Od. Guinness's Harp brand by Foster: pints, 6s; quarts, ss. Norway ales : pints, 6s 4d ; quarts, Bm. Foster's Bugle stout; quarts, 9s; pints, fls 3d. Blood's: pints, ss; quarts, 7s. Hogshead Guinness's (Bead's bottling): pints, Os ; quarts, 8s 3d. R. Porter and Co.'s bottling : pints, 6s; quarts, 8s ; Spark's Moline bottling : Cs, and 0s 3d ; Burke's : lis, and 9s. Other brands : 5s and "s 0.1. Duty : pints, Is Cd : quarts, 3s per dozen. Brii.iiiM.; Materials.Cement maybe quoted at K. 8., od: Gorman brands proportionally lower. Slates : Kngli.-h Countesses are worth £11 to £12 ; American, £8 to £10. Plaster of Paris, 15s. Bags and BaOOINO.--Calcutta full weight woolpacks, 2s 7d ; cornsarks, 7s 6d per dozen. BiiEADSTVKFS and Grain.—Local best silk-dressed flour, £10 Km ; household, £9 10s; Southern brands, £9 to £10. Wheat, 3s 2d to 3s sd. Bran, £4 10s. Sharps, £5; Southern sharps, £4 10s. Maize : Local, 2s 3d. Oatmeal, £10 10s per 20001 b. Barley (for malting), very scarce. Oats, 2.s f>d to 2s lid (bags given in). Pearl barley,

245. Cabin bread, £15 per ton. Coiuuc.K, p.p. (Subject to trade discounts).— Manila hemp rope, all sizes, Sydney. £43 to £50 ; Aucklandmade, £01 to £03; whale and lance lines, Also ; New Zealand rlax rope, all size*, £35 (is to £37 6s : Auck-land-made, £85; wool lashings, £38; clothes lines, 5U per lb, subject to trade discount; Manila clothes line, B<l ; oakum, free, ditto, £40; spun yarn two-yarn ditto, £4S to £55; twine, shop, d.p., per lb, 9d to Is 2d; sewing twine, Is Id per lb; local-make, Is to Is 3d. Coal.— Newcastle is sufficient for requirements, 26s to 27s lid at ship's side; iSs to 31s in yards, may be taken as a fair quotation. Hay of Islands, 13s, at the mines, is quoted ; Whangarei coal, 9s (id ; ditto, VVaikato, steam, Ss ; household, 12s. Coi'i'KK and Spices (in bond), per lb.— Ceylon, coffee plantation, Is 2d ; ditto, Island, none in the market ; chicory, colonial, 42s percwt ; cocoa, d.p., Taylor's, Is 5d ;" Fry's, Is 4d, scarce ; Van Houten 3s7d: Kpps's, Is 7d ; Maravilla. Is (id; chocolate, Taylor's, Is ad ; Fry's, Is 4d. Spices, d.p. : Cloves, ' 2d; bleached ginger, Is; unbleached ditto, lOd ; nutmegs, 3s 8d ; black pepper, whole, Is 2d; white ditto, Is (id. CONFECTIONERY.—LocaI manufacturers are producing good articles, and consumption is chiefly in their goods. Waters's colonial boiled, 4Jd ; dry, 7d ; jujubes, Is Id ; Mennie and Dey's boiled, 4Jrt ; Keil'ler's assorted confections, oi«l ; Gray's, 9Jd ; candied lemon peel, d.p. (duty, 5d per lb), lOd; orange, Is : citron, Is 4d; Keiller's jujubes, Is 4d ; Gray's jujubes. Is Id to Is 3d ; Compagnie Fran'jais' gums, Is 2d. GUM, Flax, Ac. We quote: Gum : Fair ordinary, £28 to £29; best ordinary, £30 ; Fast Coast, £44. Flax : First quality, £19 ; second, £17; tow, £('). Cocoanut fibre, £15 to £17 ; cocoanut oil (tine white), per ton, £24. Copra, per ton, £9 to £12. Fungus, 3jd to 4d. IRONMONGERY. —Galvanised corrugated iron, 5 to 8 feet, £19 to £20 ; 9 feet, £20 to £21 ; 10 feet, £21 to £22 ; English bar iron, per ton, £9; pig iron, £4 ; plate iron, £9 10s ; fencing wire, assorted sizes, £11. Barbed wire, £23 to £24. Sheet lead, £20 10s ; pig lead, £19 ; sheet zinc, £25 powder, Curtis, Harvey, and Hall's, fid to 7d sporting (in canister), 2s ; yellow metal, 7£d to Sid; Muntz, B<lto9d. Jams, Dried FRUITS, etc.—Duty, 2d per lb. English marmalade, lib., d.p., .s 3d : Gray's, 7s; Moir's, 7s (id ; llobart jams, Knight and Johnson, 5s (id ; Peacock's, 5a to fls (id ; Murray's, Dunedin, 4s 9il to 5s ; jars, 6kl to 7id ; Nelson (New Zealand), 5s to 5s Od ; sultanas, 03d; French muscatels, scarce, Is fid; California!!, none ; elemus, to (id ; currants, 5Jd ; Hgs, 9d, scarce; Turkish prunes, 7d to 8d ; dried apples (duty, Id per lb) ordinary, in kegs and cases, Od ; evaporated, 7i|d ; dates, ftd. d.p. Leather and Hides. —Sole leather, lOd to Is 3d per lb; kips, Is 2d to Is lOd ; runners, Is 7d tolsSd ; calf, colonial, 2s Od to 3s (id ; basils, 8s to 18s per dozen ; closed uppers, 43 fid to 9s 3d per pair ; hides, 2Jd to 4Jd; calf skins, 4d to fid per lb ; sheepskins, Od to 4s M. Manures. — Australian bonedust, £0 10s to £8; Auckland, £8 10 ; superphosphate of lime, £0 to £8 10s ; boneflonr, £8 ; Peruvian guano, £14 to £17 per ton ; animal manure, none ; cocoanut oil cake, none ; linseed cake, £12 ; Maiden Island guano, £»; Huon Island guano, £5 to £0 ; Freezing Company's superphosphate, 32 per cent, £8; 25 per cent, £8 ; coin manure, £8 ; root manure, £8 10s ; grass manure, £7 10s; bonedust, £8 10s ; Chesterfield guano, £3 10s. Malt and Hops.—English malt, no inquiry is experienced ; Colonial, 5s Od to 6s. Hops ; Nelson, new season, 9d; old, sd ; glucose, £20, d.p., delivered to brewery. Oilmen's Stores.— Price's Belmont Candles, new duty, 2d, 7Jd, d.p., per lb ; McLeod's Dunedin of various brands, 4d to BJd; Orient Candles, 7sd (Dunedin make); Atlas Paraffins, !)d ; Panther fluted and plain, 0d ; Price's National, Sid ; Price's Battersea, Bjd ; Young's liritish Wax. Bjd ; Price's London Wax, 7Jd ; local blue mottled soap, £2(1 per ton ; carbolic, £27 ; best yellow, £20 ; No. 1 household, £15; Ist Crown, £20; 2nd Crown. £17 ; soft soap, in tins, 4jd per lb ; toilet, Od to lOii per lb; mould candles, 5d per lb— all subject to trade discount. Salt, 10s per ton duty : Course, W. A \V., £4 15s, d.p.; tine Black Horse, £4 16s, d,p.; Adelaide courts salt, 45s to 555. Jordan almonds, '2n 2d ; Valwucias, Is ; Blacking paste, Day and Martin h, 4s 0d ; Column's starch, No. 1 (duty, 2d per lb) : white, 49s ; blue, 495; Orlando Jones' starch, 445; 011 l and Tucker's starch, Hn ; Jluuinann's, 445. Mustard, d.p. : Champion's genuine 1-lb book-shaped tins, IDs to lUsOd; jib tins, 9s 3d to Os (Id; Column's 1 lb tins (red), lis (Id ; half ditto, 9s ; 7-lb tins (red to green), 7jd to Is ; Lib tins (green), Ills ; 4 lb dittos, 7s Od ; DSKilhtins, 9»(«carce), lib, IDs; Keen's, Us. Blue: Keckitt's Thumb, Bid : Pails, In circle, new make, 7d ; Keen's, HJd. Matches : Vestas, d.p., Bryant and May's 250, pur gross, 1H« ; ditto, plaid, 4s fld ; ditto, fancy oval, 24s (Id ; Hull and Black's, 17s; plaids, in id ; H. Bell and Co. ii&O'n, 17a Od ; plaids,

4* 3d. All match quotations regulated by quantity of parcel. Oil : Castor, in pints, 8s 3d ; halfpints, 4.3 9il ; quarter-pints, 3s Cd. Salad : C. and 8., pints, 13s to 14s ; half-ditto, 6s ; Morton's pints, lis M ; half - pints, 5s 6d. Pickles: Stephens' pints, Ss ; Crosse and Blackwell's, Bints, 13s ; Pool's, 9s ; Morton's and others, ' from 9-;; McConnochie's, 7 s 9d. Rice (ground), in tins, 4Jd. Sauces : Market largely overstocked. Lea and Perrin's, half - pints, 14s; C. and 8., half-pints, 9s 6d; Mellor's, 7s «d ; Stephens', os 6d i doodah's Yorkshire Relish, 7s; cheaper brands innumerable. Vinegar, d.p.: Champion's, per gallon, 2s 4d ; Pew's, Is 9d to 2s ; Kvana', 2s 2d ; Burnett's. Is lid ; Potts', Is lid ; Dunedin pure milt, Is 7d. Vinegar, case : Champion's, 8a 3d : Burnett's, 7s 6d ; Morton's, 7s 6d. Treacle, 2d ; Golden Syrup, bulk, 2d to 24<L American honey, 21b-tins, lis (id., dp. Saeo, 3d ; tapioca, 3d. Cornflour : Brown's, Sid, d.p. : Brown and Poison's, 6Jd ; Johnston's, «Jd ; Wade's, 6d; Mann's, 6d. Preserved milk: Nestlo's, 7» to 7s 9d, according to parcel ; Milkmaid, 73 Bd. Tartaric acid, 2s 3d ; cream of tartar, la 8d ; bicarb, soda, £11 ; soda crystals, £6 16«. Whiting, £3 Its. Oiri and pAJ.vra.--Duty, 8d a gallon. Colza, in drums, 4s 3d ; balk, 3s lOd ; linseed, boiled drums, 3s 6d ; bulk, 3s 3d; raw drums, 3b 4d ; bulk, 3s ; castor, in drums, 3a3d ; kerosene, d.p., 130 test, Is 7d ; kerosene, In bond, 130 test, Is to Is d ; 150 test, Is 3d. White lead, ground, pear cwt, genuine, 26s ; No. 1 white lead, 22*; red lead, dry, £18 10s. Oil colours, assorted, £1 10s to £1 188. Turps, duty paid : drums, 3s fid ; American, Kb 3d ; resin, £3 10s. American carriage varnish, 7s 6d to lis per

gallon. Provisions. — Cheese: provincial, sd; Canterbury, nominal, sd. Salt butter, lOd to Is, extremely scarce. Rice, i.b., Japan dressed, £12 16.s to £13. Canterbury bacon and hams (in cloth), sides only, 7d ; equal numbers hams and bacon, 8d; hams only, 9d. Fish: Ling, sd; boneless cod, 4d ; preserved red herrings, in tins, 37s per dozen (2-lb tins) white, 30s per barrel; Findon haddocks, 8s; lobsters, American, libs, 10s M ; 21bs, 18a ; nalmon, lib cocktail, d.p., lis; other brands, 10s 0d d.p.; pickled salmon, 6d ; sardines, quarters, 4s 6d to ss, halves, 8s 6d ; oysters, 6s 6d ; mullet (Kaipara), 5s 6d. Sugars. — Brewers' crystaLs, £32 duty paid, (duty Id per lb); New Zealand Company s Auckland refinery, up., No. 1, £27 ; No. 2, £26 ; No. 3, £23 10s; Miliaquin, none ; Fiji, crystal, none ; China, £20 ; English crushed loaf, 3Jd; French cube 3jd; yellows, i.b., Fiji, £16 10s; browns, £15

10s. Spirits.— Duty, 15s per gallon of proof spirits in bulk, 16s per gallon in case. Brandy: Rouyer, Gouillet and Co., 25s and &s; Marcellain's, case, 22s Cd, i.b. ; flask, 28s 6d ; half-flask, 35s Cd; quarter-flask, 53s 6d, and in bulk, 7s 9*l; Hennessy's brandy, bulks 13s 6dto 14s ; case, 36s 3d ; Bisquit, Dubouche, and Co.'s pale, in hints, and qr.-casks, 7s ; Beehive, bulk, 8s; Courvoisier's, case, 345; Otard's, case, 29s (nominal); bulk, 10s fid ; Beehive, case, 245; Bisquit, Dubouche and Co.'s, 25s ; nine's, 28s; bulk, as ; Gautier's, 32s and 10s 6d ; Burgaud's, 7s 3d to 7s 9d; Muller Frere's, 20s; Cavalier Prere's, 245; J. B. Rene's, case, 225; Meukow, 30* and 10s; Seniraaud, (Is; Dessandier's, 22s and 7s 6d. Whisky, bulk : Walker's WW, 10s ; Ureenless and Colville's, 5s 6d to 6s 3d, and Greenless and Colville's VO, 8s 6d ; case, Rob Boy, 18s ; case, Beith, Rosa and Co.'s, 6s; Teacher's, 10s ; Vint's bulk, 6s Cd : Vint's case, 20s Od ; Danville's, 5s 6d ; case, 18s ; borne Highland, 21s ; Speyside, 21s ; Bed Deer, 0s Od to 7s ; case, 19s; Craig, 6s Cd and 24s ; Royal Blend, 24s ; Teacher's old, 26s ; Encore, 19s ; Banagher, 19s ; Walker's WW, 22s ; •Jeroboam, 28s; IX, 22s Od to 235; all in bond. Geneva, proof, 3 gallons, JDKZ, 15 bottles, 14sOd ; 20 boiiies, 17s Sd; key, Geneva, proof, 13s; Schnapps, Wolfe's, 21s "lid. Gin, Booth's, 10s; Burnett's. lys. Lownde's rum, 30 0.p., 4s ; Red Heart, case, 25s 6d ; Burnett's case, 225. Key, 225. Teacher's white rum, 32s Od in bulk, d.p. Timber.—Quotations are as follows —Kauri boards and scantling cargoes, 100 feet, at mill, f.0.b., Fast Coast, 9s to 10s tirst-class; 0s second-class ; at yards, Auckland, 13s to 14s Gd first-class ; Ss Cd second-class. Flooring, 13s Od to 16s first-class; Os 6d second-class, rusticated, 16s 6<l to 17s. West Cos it, sawn kauri. Bis ; square baulk, 5s 6d to 6s ; white pine (kahikatea), 5s lid ; T. and G., 12s, f.o.b. at mills; at yard, first-class, 13s; secondclass, 8s ; Hobart palings, 5 feet, 13s (3d ; 6 feet, 15s ; Hobart rails, £3 15s. Tobacco.—Duty, 3s Od. Venus, 14s ; three-quarter boxes, Is 3d; Venus, Navy flat work, Is 4d; double-thick ditto, Is 4d ; Ruby Aromatic, 2s 6d ; Victory, Is lid ; Juno, black, all shapes, Is 3id to Is 4id; Unique, Is 4d; low, 10's, lid; Cameron's Fancy Aromatic, Is 8d; Derby, case, Is 7d ; boxes, Is 8d ; Over the Water, flat work, all shapes, Is 2d ; Nailrod, Is 2d ; Signet, Is ljd ; Gem of the Sea, Is 3d ; Josephine, Is 3d ; Columbia, is sd. Teas.—Prices range as follows (in bond). — Congous, common, 6u to 7d; middling to flne kinds, lid to Is; Saryunes and Panyongs, Is 4d to Is 7d; Souchongs and Kaisows, ls4d to Is 6d;

Orange Pekoes, is 3d to Is 7d. Indian teas are now largely used for mixing. Prices may be quoted for Semi-broken and fine Souchong kinds, Is 5d to Is lid, duty paid. Champagne, duty paid: Perier Jouet and Co., first quality, quarts, 80s ; pints, 90s ; halfpints, 043 ; second quality, quarts, 64s ; pints, 6Ss ; half-pints, 78s. Montebelio quarts, 34s ; Moet, quarts, 90s ; pints, 90s ; Roederer, quarts, 110s ; pints, 115s ; Heidsick, same ; Pol. Roger and Co., 100s and 105s ; Adolphe Collins, 60s and 70s ditto ; extra superior, 70s, 80s ; St. Hubert's Australian, 82s per dozen ; Penfold's, 82s per dozen.