COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 8794, 2 May 1890, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Oll'ico, Tlumilfty evening.

The amount of oustoms revenue collected to-day on goods cleared for consumption was JBI7O-1143 Od; primage, £11 Os lOd j—total, £1716 Is 4d.

The number of bags of grain and produce received at the Uuiiedin railway stations to-day was as follows :—

Oats Wheat. Barley. Potatoes, flour, bran. Total, SIM 759 (J8 324 621 4231

Messrs Wri(jht, Stepheneou, and Co. yesterday sold several quantitier of milling and fted oats, millIng wheat, barley, butter, cheese, and walnuts. Oats realised from Is 2d to is id per bushel, wheat from 3s to 33 3jd. and barley brought a satisfactory figure. Salt butter brought 7d por lb, while cheese mid walnuts were also purchased nt good prices.

Messrs Henry W. Peabody and Co., in their oircular dated ll'wton, March hi, report:—"Kerosene has been tlowly fulling off throughout the month, the total decline being 25 points. We now quote liodegtest94o-lOUop^rgalloninoargolots. Canned goods; Lobsters tiro selling freely lit the advinoed prices for summer delivery, and there seems not tbo smallest prospect ot any decline this season. Oysters aro strong, with tenrteuoy upward. They are sure to be higher In the next three months. For New Zealand ports thero is but little movement in freight, obliging charterers to place vessels in berth of small tonnago. Tlieso are diffloult to secure at a price which v. ill allow a lower freight rate. We hopo, huwuvor, to s c reduced rates by vessels to come in berth next month. Wu quoto the following rates of freight tooolOD'nl ports for April loading : Melbourne, lie; Sydney, 14c ; Adelaide, 21c: Brisbane, 25a ; NewZea'aml ports. 233. The barquti Carrie L. Tyler sailed for Wellington and Lyttelton on March I; tho barque William Phillips is loading at New York tor ftunedfn and Auckland, and is announced to sail about March 31."

CUSTOMS REVENUE,

(Feu Pkess Association.) _~.,, t Wellington, May 1. The. colonial customs revenue for April was— Auckland, £37,338 ; Wellington, £24,980 ; Lyttolton nnd Chrlstchuroh, £19,339; Dunedin, £32,355;-total for the colony, £120,229. For March Instfcho revenue was £123,1>07. nnd for April 1889, £ÜB,oJPAuokland, Tauranga. Wellington, Nol.on, OJreymouth, Hokitika, Timaru, Uuucdln, and Invorcargill show an increase as compared with the March returns, while New Plymouth, Poverty Bay, Patea, Wanganul. Walrau, Pieton, Westport, Lyttolton, Bud Oamaru •how a decline.

The be?r duty for April was-Auckland, £902; Wellington, £SSO; Ohrißtchurch, £331; Dunedin iC1239;-tutal for the colony, £1081. For March it was £5374, and for April 1839, £4622. Wellington and Invercargill show n slight increase for the month.