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Otago Daily Times, Issue 5331, 21 March 1879, Page 2

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Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. The amount of Customs Kovenuo received to-day oh goods entered for consumption wm as follows :— £ b. d. £ b d Brandy . .. 17 5 7 Tea .. .. 40 10 4 Geneva .. .. 31 2 8 Sugar.. ~ 78 7 4 Wine .. .. £9 10 0 Drapery .. 212 7 Tobacco.. .. 93 14 0 Smidries ..307 311 Total .. •• £608 12 3 Several large parcels of National Insurance Company's sharos, amuumir.jr in ths aggffg'te to 7000, changed hands yesterday, through a firm of brokers, at the r&to of 103 p< r shire. Whitedaw and Co. report sale [by auction of sectious 32, S3. 34, 35, 36, 37, and 88, in township of Wakari, at £7110s, £74, £80, £76, £75, £75, and £75. feet ods 1 to 4 and 28 to 31, an entire block fronting tao main re a .1, area 2a Or 7.9p, was pasfled in at &ii 0. Mr Skesb reports for the week onding 19th March: — Continued briskness in the labour market. The linrvest excitement is about over, atd men are falling tick on old piek-and-ahovel work, of which there is a prospect of plenty. Ploughmen nre in demand, and thtir season is fast approaching. Couples, milkers, boys and girls in all dopartmontj, are much run upon. People would do wall to secure billets now bsfore winter. Wages: Couples, £75 to £90 ; waiters, cooks, boots, grooms, 20s to 60s; d>y labour, 7s, Bs, and 9s; ploughmen and shepherds, £55, £60, £05, and £70 : milkers, 15s to 25s ; station cooks, 30s to 40s ; boysabd ■ girls, 6s to 15s. COMMERCIAL TELEGRiIIS. (By Special Wire.) CimiSTCiiuncu, March 20th. Teas and eujars ora clmost neglected. So Jittle demands exists th.it even smjll parcels are mes1; difficult to place. Bottled ale arid stuut havo beea quiet; present quotation! are-12s for Easi" t ale mark ia ale, and 11s to lln Gel for various Drawers' in stout. Bu k ale has been p laceJ in 5-hhds parcels at £9 5s 10 £9 10s. Brandy: deunessi'd ia low in atcc:, and commands 34s fur c ise and 10. for bulk. The demand .for this braiid lia-t greatly fallen cff. causing an im.proved, inquiry I ir loaii lit ted makers', which i 3 an undoubted advantage t> the trade. Marteli's 1875 dirk has been pli-ccd at Us ; Hinu's has had improved bltfineES at 29s and ::9; Ci; othor brands have met with fair support at 7b 3d to 8s 9d for bulk and 22s 6J to 2Ss for c >se. A fair trade demand txisti for, whisky, but thsre is i o disposition to purchase parcels. Cornaacks are not iv suuh active request as formerly, *nd late rates are dillicult to mam tain. Sales ara repaitad at Ba, delivered in the country ; 7s 9d would be axepted for a luge parcel. Candle' have nut with a hand-to-mouth Business at 91 to lOd Kerosene is moving in 20 to CO-case parcels, at equal to la 6d. Cement is firm, and holders look for higher xates, aa the quality afloat is not Urge; sales are making at 18^. (;alvaniaed iron, fencing wire, slate, sheot lead; and other do enptions of heavy goods are simply unsaleable. ■ O AMARU, March 20th. The grain is coming: in freely, tuough business i 3 Still dull. THE LONDON MARKET. The Circular of the National Mortgage and Agency .Company of Now Zealand, dated London, Jinu.ry 30th, says :— Wool.—During the Q>st fortnight of the year some considerable pare Is of wool changed hands at firm .rates, but tho slight demand then experienced has since died aw y, and complete inactivity miy be said to be tho chracterijtio ol our market. 'J h) Home trade does not show any tijrna of recovery from the state of grout stagna ion and depression into which it lias gradunly declined, Jlanudici urers compla'n uf the extreme difficulty they experience in obuimng orders, and are very indifferently employed, short time still bting general. Tho reports received from the Continent, are also for from encouraging. The date ior thecommensemo' t of the first scries of sales for this ytar tun not yet bet 11 fixed by the committee of merchants, but it will problbly be the 13th February. Approxi- Fresh Ar- There are mate Old rivals for afloat clr'd Stock in Peb.-Mnrch asper?a*t first hands. Salas 1870. nuils. Hew South Walos and Queensland .. 4 600 7,109 31,728 Tieturian .. .. 9,000 4',CSO 93,076 Tasmanian — 397 — South Australian .. 1,000 13,669 44.EC0 We*.t Australian — — 1,0 JO How Zealand .. 5,200 9,573 4.455 Cape and Natal .. 10,500 25,(9i 4.C00 30,'i00 101,420 180,823 Tho first scries of Fait India wool silos U r the present ytnr took \ l;uw last week ; tho attendance of buyers was good, un<l prices wo; c quoted as itjady on November rates. Wheat.—Continued depression lias been tho prevailing feuture in the mxrket during tho past fortnight. The large fleet of Cnlii. ruia'i cargoes has toeti clea ed off the coast, many of them ordered away tiiisoli. The sales effected worn at rather e3S.crpriCiS, and although tho prevalenco of easterly winds has kepi back further arrivals, it has not led to any improvement in value. Millars, as a rul •, have licht stock", bat they see no need to increase them as lot g as America and Russia send forward supplies co t-ceiy. On the contrary, tin y fiud every inducement to mainta:n the har,d to-mouth policy which liua for some time paid them so well. Tlvre is an ontiro absence of specuiatiou, and if sales were forced, lower pricos would have to be taken. New Zealand descriptions have met with vry little inquiry, and must bo quoted 13 ptr quarter lower, say 42s to 4is for fair, aad 43s to 44s for good quality. 'Australian waeafc sells slowly at 43s pa- 49J lbs ex chip. POST OFFICE M)T]OK. Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin (subject to necessary alterations), as under:— Xnis Imv (Frioat), Makcii 2!st For Northern Portt) of New Zealand, per Hawea, at 160 p.m. Lato letters, guard's van, fort Chalmers train, at 2 30 p.m. Wkjj.ne.sdav, March 26th. For JTorthern Torts of Now Zealand, Few South "Wales, and Queensland, per Rotorua, *p 1.60 p.mi X.\to letters, guai d's van, Pott Chalmers train, 2.3 > p.m. For Woutbland aud Australian Colonies, per Albion, at 1.60 pin. Late letters, guard's van, Port Chalmers train, 2.30 p.m. Fhiday, March 28tu. Por Ladybird, as under— For Northern Ports of Now Zealand, New South ■Wales, Sandwich Islands, America, West Indies, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, &:., at 11.10 a.m. Late letters, at 11 50 am. late letters ht R-ulway Station at 12.25 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers, £t 10 a. in British mails dispatched by the Ladybird will bo due in London on 13th May. (Signed; AKCH. BARR, Chief Postma tor, Chief Post Office, Danedin, March 21st, 18! 9. ABSTftAOT OF SALES BY AUCTION. IBM DAT. D. If. SrßDDma, at Booms, Princes street southChina and earthonwerj. WhiteiiAW and Co., at Rooms, Battray itreet— Groctrlts, ship stores, &>;. Wbiqhi, Sibphknsos, AMD Co., at Wlnisw Fftrk— Lincoln sheep.