Commercial.
The amount of revenue received at the Cus-tom-house on goods cleared for consumption to-day, was £662 16s 7d, Messrs Wood and Cunningham, of Christchurch, furnish the Lyttelton Times with the result of a trial shipment of cheese and parley to the home market. The cheese was backed in strong cases, with kiln dried oatseeds, and comprised samples from the best Canterbury dairies. Their London agent writes “ The cheese ex Crusader is in bad condition, being poor in quality and all more or less perished ; it will hardly realise 30s per cwt.” With respect to the barley he writes : “ The barley has been sold at 38s 6d per 4321b5, an outside price. This is a fair sample of barley, but there is some uncertainty as to whether it will do for malting ; only about 60 per cent, of a late parcel from New Zealand proved suitable for that purpose,” •
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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2780, 15 January 1872, Page 2
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149Commercial. Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2780, 15 January 1872, Page 2
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