COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5420, 10 August 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The following are the duties collected at the Customs yesterday:—

There has been only a moderate amount of business in the import trade during the past week, with no Improvement in quotations, nor do we see much prospect of better prices so long as importations continue large, and so unregulated by the demand. Heonessy's cast* brandy moves off at improved rates, and is now quoted at 31s per case, bulk of the same brand being exceedingly light in stock, and worth Os Od to 10s per gallon ; Denis Mounie’s brandy Is quoted at 30% and is in improved demand. Sugars remain at last quotations. with fair stocks. Teas, market full of new season teas, with large shipments to arrive. At the sale by auction of Messrs. Beck and Tonks' stock fair prices were obtained for many of the lots, although slightly under market quotations. Colonial flour sold at £lO 15s to XII 5d per ton; 300 sacks 2»ew South Wales maize, 4s lOd to 5s ; salmon, 8s Od per dozen; candles, f J}d; Sydney sugar, lU, £29 10s, in bond ; teas, Is 4d to Is 8d per lb. Jn colonial produce there Is but little to report beyond a similar complaint of shipments regardless of the current consumption and demand. Butter is in better demand for prime cure in kegs, and small lots have been qul ted at to 10,jd per lb ; cheese is overstocked at Old to 7d per lb; flour, the market for Southern flout shows no improvement, and quotUlons would leave a nominal profit on the price at port of shipment; we quote best brands of Oamaru at £ll to to £ll 10s per ton, while at auct on barely £lO 15s to £ll 5s could be obtained. Grain—Oats continue in light supply, and for first-class feeding oats 4s 7d to 4s Ifd has been obtained ; maize, in full stock at 5s 3d; fowls feed, 4s 3d to 4s Od per bushel. BY TELEGRAPH. AUCKLAND SHARE MARKET. (FAOH OUR OWN correspondent.) AUCKLAND, Friday. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports;—Buyers; Colonial Bank, 50s 0d; Bank of New Zealand, £24 5s ; National Bank, 78s: Shipping. 80s ; New Zealand Insurance, 88s; South British, 70s; National Insurance, 27s ; Loan and Mercantile (new), 07s Od; Caledonian, 00s; Pi»ko, Is 2d; Moanataiari, 57s Gd; Alburnia, 45a. (I*ER FRESH AOENCY.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Friday. At Mr. Courtenay’s cattle sales cows near calving fetched £7 5s to £9; store cows, £5; eighteen months’ heifers, £3 17s Od ; yearlings, £3 3r, calves, £2 5:? to £3 10s. TTMARU, Friday. Wheat remains nominally at 3s lOd; no purchases have been made during the week. Oats have advanced another 2d, and are now quoted up to 4s, and little offering. Barley is unchanged, tiic nominal price is 4s 0d to 5a 3d. DUNEDIN, Friday. Produce is quoted as follows Wheat, malting, is; barley, malting, 5s to 5s Od ; feed, 3s to 3* Gd ; oats, feed, 3s 10J to 4s ; pollard. £5 10a; bran, £5 10s; flour, large bag% Xll; small, XU 10s; oatmeal, £2O; potatoes, £4 5» to £4 10s; hay, £5 to £o 10s‘; chaff, £1 i(M per ton; straw, £2 per ton. Mr. Bradshaw reports .-- Bank of New Zealand, U2i si; Colonial Bunk, £2 ISs; National Bank, £4; Standard Insurance. £1 2« Gd: Union Insurance, 15s and 15s Od;) Mosgiel Factory, £3 10-; Guthrie and L'trnach’s Factories, £2 i7s Od; Scottish and New Zealand invest cent Company, UM. Five thousand of Guthrie and Larnach a shares were wold in London at £1 per share premium. SYDNEY, Friday. Kerosene, Is 0d to Is Kid: rice, £2O to £27; New Zealand wheat, 4s Od to 5s ; New Zealand oats, 4s Gd to is 8d; other quotations unchanged. ADELAIDE, Friday. Flour, £ll Us to £ll 15s; wheat. 5» 2d to 5« 3d.

umxw yuaucc £ d. £ 8. d. Spirits .. .. 154 9 U Ale (bottled) .. 13 1G 3 Wine .. .. 20 1 a Weight .. 207 19 3 Tobacco .. 202 10 4 Ad valorem .. GIG 10 1 C'lgara .. .. 3 19 5 Tea .. SO 1G G Sugar .. .. 220 15 8 Total .. £1039 13 11