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The Customs' duties received at thle port yesterday were aa under: — ' £ s. d. £ s. d. Spirits.. .. 70,10 1 Weight ..440 Wine .. ’ ..' 21 17 7 Ad valorem .. 64 19 3 Tobacco .. 15 0 0 Other duties .. 10 0 Tea .. .. 16 15 0 Sugar .. .., .62 9 7 Total £247 1 6 The Customs duties received at this port for the week ending November 24 were as follows . £ e. d. . £ s, d. Spirits .1 644 1 6 Goodsbywgt! 125 9 8 Cigars .. 147 6 0 Ad valorem .. 671 IS 2 Tobacco .. 160 0 0 Other duties..- 62 7 0 Wine ..112.2 5 Light dues, Ucer .. 123 18 9 shipping he. 34 18 3 Tea .. 219 0 0 ‘ Coffee ~ • 46 3 0 ■ ■ Sugar .. 609 5 6 Total £2,838 4 ! 1. The Import trade of the past week has been dull, with little variation, ip the quotations, Kerosene is low in stock/and as shipments to arrive are limited prices hardened. 1 ! Holders ask 3s to 3s Id per gallon duly paid, and we hear of a line of 300 cases quitted at 3s. The Panola is expected dally, but the bulk of her shipments have been sold to arrive, - Sperm candles are firm at IOJd for He Koubalx, 10|d for Price’s Belmonts/’ .Recent advices note a rise of 6d per gallon in paint oils. / , ' In colonial produce we report no* change in values from last week’s quotations. Flour is firm at £l7 per ton for sacks, £lß,for bags. In trade lots'oats ate, held for 3s 3d, and maiae 4s Cd per bushel. Bacon' an I hams (Canterbury cure) in fair demand at 9Jd to lOd per lb.; cheese,' fid to fild; potatoes, £5 per ton. ■ ' BY TELEGRAPH. ~~ . - I : AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr Buckland reports at wool sales advance of IJd, on prices generally. Flax, good quality and condition £lO to £2l; . fat cattle. 255. to 28s. per XOOtbs.; mutton, in wool, Sid; shorn, 2jd. to 2Jd. CHEISTCHUROH, Friday. Export 'quotations, f.o.b. at Lyttelton: Good milling wheat unobtainable; second quality saleable at ts ; chicken, 33. Od. to 4s. Millers’stocks low. Flour nominally quoted at, £ls, in sacks; hnt orders axe
dechned, except at £l6: bran, £5: sharps, £0; oats, 2s Cd. for feed, and 2a. 9d. for milling: butter, 10id., cheese, BJd. Oatmeal had an advance of £lpor ton; ryegrass, 6s.
DUNEDIN, Friday. Wheat, hone offering; quotations nominally 6s._ qj. to ss. 9d,fov good ordinary, Tip to 6s. fully lor;«Ume quality. Oats: arriving [freely, and barely , n such request as lately: fair feed from ,2s. to 2s, 2r u ..J prime, 2s , gd. Barley without appreciable alteration In value, but slightly improved demand;, v) ~, Mr. Bradshaw reports:—Sales: of New Zealand, £lB 165.; Colonial Bank, £1 i2s,; National Insurance, £1 Ss. 6d. Buyers: Bang 0 { New Zealand, £18155.: Colonial Bank, £112a.; National Insurance, £1 35.; South British Insurance, £3 4s. 6d.; New Zealand Insurance, £4 6s. , \ , i .
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4892, 25 November 1876, Page 2
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