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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 706, 23 September 1876, Page 2

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The Customs revenue collected on Thursday was tS follows„ ... £ s. d. Spirits 205 16 4 Tea .. 34 2 3 Sugar 100 15 o Tobacco 78 10 0 Drapery 25 6 0 Sundries 250 7 9 £694 17 4 The land sold at the Waste Lands Board on Thursday, amounted to 811 acres, realising £1622, •Ituated In the following districts a. r. p. Upper Christchurch .. .. 37 o 0 . Ashley 10 0 1 Tlmaru 276 0 0 Waitangi ... ,<• 108 0 0 Banks’ Peninsula ... ... ... 30 0 0 Waipara - 9 0 Oxford B 4 0 0 Ashburton 234 0 0 At the sale by auction of town and rural land held at the Waste Lands Board Office on Wednesday and Thursday, the quantity sold was 405 acres 3 roods 25 perches, realising £IB9O 8s 6d, situated asiollowfl t RURAL LAND. ’ ' A. R. P. Christchurch 47 2 0 Upper Christchurch 3 3 0 Ashley 14 1 0 Tlmaru 31 0 10 Waitangi ... ' 19 3 2 Ellesmere 10 0 Banks’ Peninsula 92 1 0 Waipara 020 Oxford , ••• 38 117 Malvern is 0 0 Ashburton 121 3 0 TOWN LAND. A. R. P. Kakaia South 0 2 0 Arawhenua •• 210 Waimate 6 0 36 Ashburton 4 3 0 Beyond a few sales of oats nothing has been done in the grain market during the week direct from producers. Wheat continues Arm. but none is offering, and as stocks ;in farmers’ hands appear quite exhausted, supplies are now mainly drawn from merchant#, Oats are without improvement, and dull at Is 8d to la 9d, all the Australian markets being reported as very heavily overstocked, one of tne last intercolonial steamers bringing advices of Bales in Melbourne at 2s lid. Barley now meets with no inquiry, a few samples are occasionally shown but iind no purchasers. Flour is without alteration at £l2 in sacks f.o.b. The brisk demand lately felt for potatoes has suddenly ceased, probably owing to the complete collapse of the Sydney market; buyers now offer 32s «d to 355, and this price only for orders. Butter and cheese are very difficult to move, butter In kegs being almost quite unsaleable, and for cheese there are no buyers over 7d. Hams and bacon are at present dull, but prices are Arm at 9d bare and n*d cloth. We have very little business to report in the import markets, trade being particularly dull. Several sales have been effected.in last season’s teas at low rates. Transactions have come under our notice of 1874-75 teas, ex Fairlie, which have teen forced off at very heavy loss. Sugar—The market is getting very low in whites. We have merely trade sales to record at full rates. In spirits we have nothing beyond usual small sales to hotelkeepers to report. Bottled ales and stout are very languid at i«s 9d to Us 6d, for best brands. Woolpacks there has been a little Inquiry for, 3s 3d is the full rate obtainable for large parcels. Cornsacks there Is little Inquiry for, IDs is the current rate for small lots. We understand orders havebcen booked in Melbourne for this market at 7s per dozen, f.o.b, to be delivered jin Deoember. Cement is still in the same unsatisfactory state -, we have no large sales to record. Wire for station orders has; been in request, but btyond this there is nothing doing. Galvanised iron is offered Ireely at £3O 10s to £3l delivered, bnt verylittle is done even at these rates. Kerosene is very low In stock ; price nominal. The Josephine, from New York, brings a large quantity for this market, which will arrive about beginning of November. The ship Waitangi arrived from London on the WtU iptwt, with caryo and imimfrffclf*

Mr C. F. Barker reports having privately disposed of the Benmore Kun, of 9500 acres, with 3SOO sheep, to Mr Matthew Wier, for £1700; and at auction sale, held at Coalgate, the sale of a number of sections in the township, at prices averaging £O2 per acre. At the first of the monthly sales at the new yards, Sheffield, 20 horses, 30 head of cattle, springing cows and heifers, good steers and young stock, and 500 sheep were yarded for various owner;', as also a number of implements. Sales were effected of horses and cattle at good prices, and sheep fetched 8s 9d and 9s for ewes, and 9s 9d for wethers.