COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1287, 4 May 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected here on Thursday, May 2nd, amounted to £138119s Id. The items were as follows Wines, £l7 4s; spirits, £398 8s 3d; ale, in bottle, £205 6s 3d ; tobacco, £sl 17s Gd ; tea, £IOO 13s; sugar, £177 2s 7d; goods by weight, £258 14s 9d; ad valorem, £169 10s 3d ; other duties, £3 2s 6d. At the sitting of the Waste Lauds Board on Thursday, May 2nd, the following lands were disposed of, realising £11,675 12s, viz. Town lands, 1 rood in the town of Ashburton, £lO7 2s, Rural lands, 5781 acres 1 rood, £11,568 10s, situate as under Ashley, 33 acres ; Selwyn, 1035 acres; Akaroa, 71 acres 2 roods; Ashburton, 2145 acres 3 roods; Geraldine, 40 acres; Waimate, 1785 acres, and 371 acres iu the vicinity of Mount Cook. IMPORTANT LAND SALE. One of the best attended and most successful land sales held in Christchurch for a very long time past took place yesterday at Messrs R. Walton’s and Co.’s sale-rooms. Mr Walton acted as auctioneer, and succeeded in selling a very large amount of property at very high figures, particularly the property at Papanui belonging to Mr J. T. Matson, being an extension of the township of Papanni. For this, particulars of which will be found below, high prices were paid, the 25$ acres realising £9990, or about £4OO per acre. The price thus realised for suburban land plainly shows the great rise which has taken place during the past few years in the price of land in Canterbury. Prior to the sale of the Papanui property, several country and town properties were offered. Twenty acres at Kaiapoi, being R.S. No. 1823, brought £3 per acre. One acre two roods on the Opawa and Wilson’s roads brought £125, at which price it was bought by Mr R. Smith. The next lot offered was a piece of land at the corner of Worcester street and cast town belt, having a frontage of two chains on Worcester street and 83J links to the town belt, with two semi-detached fourroomed houses. It failed to reach the owner’s expectations, and was passed at £6OO. Following this was town section No. 560, situate on Oxford terrace, next to the Foresters’ Hotel. This was divided into two lots, one having a frontage of 30ft. and the other39ft. to Oxford terrace. After a spirited contest, both pieces fell to the nod of Mr W. Brice for £3OO each, or £6OO in all. Following upon this, Mr Walton offered a section situate at the corner of Lichfield and Barbadoes streets, with two sixroomed houses thereon, which was withdrawn at £970. A section fronting on Manchester street, adjoining the factory of Messrs Lighthand, Allan and Co., was next submitted. The frontage on Manchester street was 33ft., with 86ft. depth, audiu was started at £35 per foot. It ran up to £4310s per foot, at which price it passed in. A section fronting on Durham and Chester streets, having a frontage of 94ft. to Durham street and 97ft. to Chester street, was passed in at £650. Sixteen sections in the township of Waterton, at Lougbeach, were passed in at £8 per section. Four sections of one rood each in the township of Wheatstone, situate on the South lino, sold for £8 each. Twenty-six acres in Winslow were passed at £lss per acre. At this period a substantial luncheon was spread, and after due justice had been done to it and the liberal supply of champagne provided by the enterprising owner of the sections iu the extension of Papanui township, Mr Walton mounted the rostrum to offer these sections for sale. Previously to doing so, Mr Walton descanted on the advantages of these sections as residential sites in most eloquent terms. This apparently hail the desired effect, as the biddings came fast and furious, and the whole of the eighty-four sections submitted were sold at very high E rices. The block had been divided in;o three, aving roads running from the main North road hack to the railway, and included 25$ acres. The total value realised was £9990. We append particulars of the saleSection 1, Hewitt, £155; 2, Hewitt, £155; 3, Dawson, £160; 4, Wilson, £170; 5. Cook, £100; 6, Hack, £95 ; 7, Alport, £95 ; 8, Alport,£96; 9, Alport, £9O; 10, Alport, £9O; 11, Alport, £1(X»; 12, Alport, £100:13, Bennetts, £100; 14, Alport, £100; 15, Alport, £100; 16, Jones, £IOO ; 17, Jones, f 100; 18,(Alport, £9O; 19, Alport, £9O; 20, Alport, £9O;

21, Eostoll, £95; 22, Eestall, £95; 23, J. A. Bird £170; 21, Marsden, £l6O ; 25. Wright, £llO ; 26, Alport, £155; 27, Alport, £155; 28, Payling, £155, 29, Payling, £160; 30. J. A. Bird, £170; 31, J. A; Bird, £95; 32, J. A. Bird, £95; 33, J. A. Bird, £9O. 31, Hart, £9O; 35, iNinston, £100; 36, Jones. £100; 37, Jones, £100; 38, Alport, £BS; 39, Bennetts, £9O; 40, Restell, £105; 41, Wright, £115; 42, Wright, £105; 43, Broughton, £IOO : 44, Broughton, £100; 45, Scrimshaw, £105; 46, Scrimshaw, £105; 47, Scrimshaw, £105; 48, C, Smith, £120; 49, Alport, £120; 50, Alport, £120; 51, Marsden, £135; 52, Marsden, £135; 53, Marsden, £135; 54. Marsden, £155; 55, Dnmergne, £205; 56, Dnmergne, £205 ; 57, Amyes,£l3s; 58, Amyes, £135 ; 59, Dumergue, £135; 60, Dnmergne, £135 ; 61, Thomas, £130; 62, Thomas, £130; 63, Alport, £120; 64, Alport, £120; 65. Lipsham, £225; 67. Marsden, £155 ; 68, J. A. Bird, £145 ; 69, Dnmergne, £145; 70. J. Taylor. £135; 71, Cooper, £135; 72, Littler, £105; 73, Chrystal, £130; 74, Chrystal, £130; 75, Scrimshaw, £l30; 76, Thomas, £115; 77, Thomas, £115; 78, Withers, £95 ; 79, Wright, £100; 80, Alport, £llO ; 81, Crowe, £llO ; 82, Wright, £95; 83, Lipsham, £9O; 84, Lipsham, £IOO. GRAIN ON THE RAILWAY. The following information as to the amount of grain at the country stations on May 2nd has been obligingly furnished by the Railway Department; — No of No of Bags. Bags. Southbridgo June- Ashburton ... Nil tion 900 Papanui 200 Prebbletou ... 1066 Styx 540 Lincoln 720 Kaiapoi ... 2485 Springston ... 25 Rangiora ... ... 53 Ellesmere ... ... 498 Moeraki ... ... 163 Irwell 560 Ashley ...™ ... 31 Doyleston ... ... 289 Sefton ... ... 300 Leeston ... ... Nil Balcairn 330 Southbridge ... Nil Winslow 1411 Templeton ... 423 Hinds ... ... 376 Rollestou ... 990 South Raugitata... 1250 Bealey’s Road ... 405 Orari 1972 Kirwee 489 Winchester ... 1409 Horudon Junction 96 St. Andrews ... 3800 Coalgate ... ... 30 Otaio ... ... 1205 Sheffield 1428 Waimate Junction 559 Burnham ... ... Nil Waihno ... ... 2961 Selwyn North ... 955 Awamoko JuncSelwyn South ... 90 tion and MaereDnusaudel ... 23 whenua branch 1600 Rakaia 435 Chertsey Nil Total ... 39,367