COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume VI, Issue 681, 25 August 1876, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected on Wednesday was as follows i

The land sold at the Waste Lands Board yesterday amounted to 725 acres, realising £1450, situated in the following districts

Mr Joseph Beswick reports that there were yarded at the Northern Saleyards, at Kaiapoi, on Thursday, August 24th, the following stock : 211 mixed sheep, realising 7s 9d to 8s 3d ; 18 head cattle, chieftv springing cows and heifers, bringing from £7 to £10; 11 pigs, and a lot of agricultural implements and sundries.

Timaru.—The "Herald" of yesterday reports:— Business operations during the past month have been almost at a standstill, trade of all descriptions beiDg in a very depressed state. The fall in wool has no doubt been the principal cause of this ; but as a reaction has now set in in the home markets, it is to be hoped that money will become easier. Several failures have taken place, but they are of no great importance. Building operations still continue t<> !»• carried on to a very large extent, and some really handsome places of business, i»eluding new premises ior the Union Bank of Aus. tr»H»i are la the course of erection, Tbi export

trade during the past month has bee» anything but animated, the principle items comprising 6565 bushels of wheat, 2400 do oats, 446 sacks potatoes, 17 cases preserved meat, 361 bales chaff, 59 do hay, 1 ton flour, 200 bags bone dust, and small quantities of other local produce. There is very little wheat remaining in stock; but of oats a large quantity stillawaits export Grain quotations are about the same as last month, wheat being at irom 3s Bdto 4s; oats, Is 6d to Is 8d; and barley, 2s to 3s nominal. The import trade during the past month has been confined to supplying the immediate requirements of theplace.and the number of vessels arriving has been comparatively small. The coal market is completely glutted ; with a prospect of slocks being still further increased by some 1600 tons now afloat. Flour (wholesale) is fetching from£ll 10s to £l2 per ton; best oatmeal, £l6; nharps, £5 10s; bran, £4; potatoes at the rate of £2 10s.

Spirits £ s. d 65 2 10 Tea , , ,,, .. 33 15 0 Sugar ... ... 14 13 8 Coffee... ... 15 1 0 Tobacco . , ... 31 10 0 Drapery 7 4 0 Sundries •• ... 91 2 2 £288 8 8

Christchurch A. 50 R. 0 p. 0 Upper Christchurch 20 0 0 Titnaru 291 0 0 Oxford 140 0 0 Waipara 340 0 0 Ashburton 160 0 0 Upper Ashley .. 20 0 0