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The Customs duties collected here on Friday and Saturday, the :-9th and 30th March respectively, ■were Friday—£s72 17s 4d j Saturday—£l93 17s 4d. The items were—Friday—Spirits, £317 2s Id; wine, £36 5s 7d; beer, £8 8s 9d; tobacco, £2+; tea, £l4 Jss; nd valorem, £62 8s; other duties. £llO 7s lid. Saturday—Spirits, £IOB 4s 8d; wine, £4; beer, £5; tobacco, £3017s 6d; sugar, £39 8s 2d jad valorem, £6 6s j other duties. Is. At the sitting of the Waste* Lands Board held yesterday, April Ist, 5205 acres 3 roods were disposed of. realising £10,411105. The land is situated as under;—Ashley, 41 acres; Selwyn, 874 acres, Akaroa, 440 acres; Ashburton, 3064 acres: Geraldine, 126 acres, 3 roods; and Waimata, 660 acres. LYTTELTON CUSTOMS RETURNS. The following return shows the net amounts of customs collected at Lyttelton for the quarters ending respectively 31st March, 1878, and 31st March, 1877:- 1878> 1877. £ s. d. £ s. d. Suiritß 15,91.2 18 1 13,525 9 4 is! 17 9 IF “ ::: SS •lIS 15 Ale and beer (inbottle) 1065 8 0 836 5 0 Ale and beer (inwood)... US 10 0 MO Coffee, chocolate, &o. ... 386 0 6 319 3 2 Sugar and molasses ... 6836 K 8 6344 0 8 Goods by weight... ... 3618 2 4 Ad valorem 22,863 14 10 13,547 14 0 Other duties ... ... 3160 19 10 2360 17 8 65,843,17 6 49,579 3 11 In 1877 the amount of £2 was paid on opium, but that drug does not appear in the return for 1878. Dnring the month of March the total revenue from customs collected at Lyttelton was £21,161 10s 7d, ' ENGLISH MARKETS. The following telegram has bean received from London by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency . London, March 30. Wool—Competition is decreasing, and market is weaker For medium and inferior greasy, and medium and inferior clothing washed, the,, market is easier; for superior greasy, and superior combing washed, firm. Scoured, market is unchanged. Advices of short supplies from Australia have been received. Up-to date 183,000 bales have been sold. The sales will close on the sth proximo. ■ Tallow is dull of sale. Mutton S9s 6d, andjbeef 38b 6d per cwt. , . Wheat—Market firm. Californian harvest is abundant. Adelaide is worth 64b, and New Zealand 52s per 4961 b.
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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1260, 2 April 1878, Page 2
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379COMMERCIAL. Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1260, 2 April 1878, Page 2
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