COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1341, 1 June 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected hero on Wednesday May 29th, amounted to £9ollos Bd. The items were as follows Spirits, £346 Ss 3d; wine, £54 18s sd; beer, £26 ss; tobacco, £247 ss; tea, £lO3 8s 6d ; sugar, £SB 5s ; ad valorem, £59 18s ; goods by weight, £4 17s 6d ; other duties, ss. On Thursday, May 30th, the amount was £595 12s Id The items were Spirits, £257 8s ; wine, £26 Bsßd ; tobacco, £3O 2s 6d; tea, £33 10s ; sugar, £l2O 14s lid; ad valorem, £ll2 18s; goods by weight, £l4los. LAND SALE. Mr C. F. (Barker yesterday sold by auction, at the Commercial Salerooms, Hereford street, a largo number of sections of freehold land, both suburban and rural, at prices which must have been most satisfactory to the vendors. There was a large attsndance of buyers and the bidding was very rapid. The suburban sections, which were sold under instructions from Messrs Thompson and Parkerson, trustees in the estate of Dr. A. C. Barker, were situated on the North town belt and on the Papanui road. The first put np for sale was a section me isnring 38 perches. The first bid for this was £l5O, but the price rapidly ran up to £4OO, for which it was knocked down to Mr Joynt, who also purchased the next section, which was of the same dimensions, for £365. Fonr quarter-acre sections followed, and realised £315, £3OO, £305, and £3lO, the purchaser being Mr Black. Twenty-three other sections were sold at an average price of £233 per rood, the highest price, £360, being given for a section at the corner of Clare street. After those sections a number of allotments in the Chertsey township extension, the property of W. A. Brown, Esq., were offered and all sold at prices varying from £l3 to £39 each, the average price being £2O. Mr Barker also sold, under instructions from Messrs Miles, Hassal and Co., a farm of 385 acres, near Chertsey, for £4 10s per acre; and two farms close to Rakaia, one of 491 acres, at £3 10s, and the other of 3as acres, at £3 13s. The sale concluded with the offer of three farms near the Coulsdou station, on tho Eakaia and Ashburton Forks railway; of these, one of 105 acres, brought £3 Is, and another of 312 acres brought £2 18s 6d per acre, the third of 370 acres was withdrawn, the highest bid, £2 16s per acre, falling short of the reserve by 4s, COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, May 31, Quotations show a rise of 2s per lOOlbs. in fat cattle: ewes, 23s 4d; wethers, 3d per lb. In the share market sales of New Zealand Insurance shares were made at 92s 6d. Buyers—National Bank, 78s; Colonial. 53s ; South British Insurance, 7ls 6d. Sellers—Union Insurance, 12s 6d ; Bank of New Zealand, £23 10s; Guthrie and Larnach, 47s 6d. Mining Sales—Moanitaiii, 67s 6d; Alburnia, 57s 6d. Oamaru, May 31. There is very little doing in wheat. Buyers are not inclined to give growers’ prices. Malting barley of good quality is in demand. Wheat, 4s ; oats, 3s to 3s 4d; barley, ss; flour, £ll to £ll 15s, f.o.b; oatmeal, £18; pearl barley, £2O; pollard, £5 5s bran, £4. „ Dunedin, May 31. Wheat, 4s 3d to 4s 4d; choice Northern, 4s 6d; oats. 3s 4dto3s 6d; barley, malting samples, 5s to 5s 6d ; milling, 3s 6dto 4s. Colonial Bank shires, £2 13s Od; National Bank, £3 18s 6d; National Insurance, 27s 6d; Standard Insurance, 22s 6d; Uni„n Insurance, 14s 6d to 15s ; Mosgiel factory. 48s; Guthrie and Laruach’s factories, 50s (ex div.); Scottish and New Zealand Investment Co., 19s.