COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1269, 12 April 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected on Wednesday, April 10th, amounted to £llOl 6s sd. The items were as follows; —Spirits, £302 17s 7d; wine, £3b 9s lid : beer, £9116s 3d; tobacco, £123 15s ; tea, M 3 16s • sugar, £3117s Id; ad valorem, £319 4s; goods by weight, £56 3s lOd; other duties, £95 6s 6d. At the sittings of the Waste Lands Board held Thursday, April 11th, 2958 acres were disposed of, realising £5916. The land is situated as under:— Ashley, 300 acres; Selwyn, 704 acres 2 roods; Akaroa, 308 acres 2 roods ; Ashburton, 1390 acres; Geraldine, 55acres; Waimate, 200 acres. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Dunedin, April 11. Colonial Bank, £2 11s ; National Bank, £3 15s; National Insurance, £1 10s Gd;; Union Insurance, 15s - South British, £4; New Zealand Insurance, £4 IQs ■ Standard Insurance, £1 3s; Mosgiel Factory £3 7s: Guthrie and Larnach’s Factory, £2 7s fid to £2 10s : Shipping Co., £3 14s. the grain market wheat is arriving more freely mid navcels of best descriptions changed hands at ri -r, msactions, however, have not been large, tant sales have b-. grain delivered at mills is up to 4s 4d. Prime no w ordinary and old quoted at up to 4s 7d, in. _ ood malting quality is at 3s 6d to 4s 3d; bailey of offering* teed freely saleaole at up to ss. very i IU1 f i®Kfe week and milling, 3s 3d to 3s 6d ; oats CaJ/ in were in brisk demand and stocks were -if nil v indeed ; supplies are now arriving more plonw and prices may be quoted a shade easier, say best feed 3s 4d to 3s sd; milling, 3s 6d. W EimiNOiON, April 11. Produce prices arc as follows: —Flour, £l3 to £l3 10s; Adelaide, £18; oats, 4s 4d to 4s 6d; bran. Is 2d ■ wheat, 4s ; hams, 9d; bacon, 7d; cheese, 7jd 5s 9d ; pollard, £74s ; potatoes, £5 ; butter, lid.