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Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1365, 29 June 1878, Page 2

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#. ' The Customs duties collected here on Thursday, June 27th, amounted to £B3O 8s 9d. The items were :—Wines, £2B 3s 2d; spirits, £361 4s lOd; ale in bottle, £l3 lis 3d; tobacco. £6O 12s 6d ; tea, £25 IDs ; sugar, £45 2s lid; goods by weight, £ll4 6s 9d; ad valorem, £1K); other duties, £33 9s 4d. At the sitting of the Waste Lands Board held on Thursday, Jnue 27th, 9101 acres 1 rood were disposed of, realising £18,32S 10s. The land is sitnated as under:—Ashley, 4221 acres 2 roods; Selwyn, 2292 acres ; Akaroa, 765 acres ; Ashburton, 1375 acres ; Geraldine, 200 acres 3 roods; Waimate, 310 acres. THE YEAE'S LAND REVENUE. The total sum realised by land sales and pasturage rentsand the area sold in the provincial district of Canterbury for the year ending 30th June, 1878, was as follows : Town (94a. 3r.25p.) £14,920 14 0 Enrol (554,168 a. 3r. lip.) ... 1,108,902 14 3 Pasturage rents 33,082 15 4 Total £1,156,906 3 7 LAND SALES. Mr Charles Clark reports the following recent land sales made by him, viz. : CHRISTCBUKCH TOWN LANDS. Town section No. 723, in Worcester street, near Cathedral square, for £3168, being at the rate of £4B per foot. A plot of land in Gloucester street, 40 links by 56 links with small shop on same, for £075. A plot of land at the corner of Hereford and Manchester streets, 33ft. by 66ft., for £2046, being at the rate of £62 per foot. One plot iu Hereford street for £1254, and one plot in Manchester street for £1155. A plot of land in Gloucester street east, part of town reserve, lot 88, with cottage, for £420. A plot of land in Casliel street east, part of town reserve 84, having afrontage of 57ft. by a depth of 200 ft., with house on same, for £6BO. A plot of land on the South Town Belt, near the Windmill road, 150 links by 200 links, for £325. A small plot of land on the Whately road, 45ft. by 51ft., with small store on same, for £075. A quarter of an acre of land in Hereford street east, with cottage, for £490. A quarter of an acre in Cashel street east, with house on same, for £7OO. One acre and seven perches, corner of Montreal street and South Town Bolt, for £2OOO. SUBURBAN LANDS. - An allotment on the Carlton Mill road, with dwelling-house on same, for £590, and three building plots at £7O each. A quarter acre in Colombo street south, with lean-to, for £4OO. Three and a-half acres of land on the Eiccartou road, just beyond the railway, for £llsO. Three acres of land at the bottom of Colombo street south, for £650. Thirty-one allotments adjoining the Plough Inn, Eiccarton, averaging about one-eighth of an acre, brought from £56 up to £lls per section. Three building sites at Bingsland, Avonside, brought £2lO, and two lots near the Stanmore bridge sold £IBO. t Two allotments in Wilson's nursery. Perry road, f0r,£220. ... Nine acres of landat the back of New Cambridge, •J'terry road, brought £I4OO. • Nine sections of laud in Colombo street south, averaging less than a quarter of au acre, realised from £7O up to £llO each. ■ Quarter-acre building allotments, near Wilson's '< feripga, at £SO each. f. ', : l'Aiois. Three farms, the property of S. Ba.iloy, on flw Eivev Styi, realised £ls pei' acre, and soven - brought anre. TOWNSHIP Or Ei"Soli. ' ', Ar>«±he auction sale of this township on Wedncs.dayijun'e 26th, there was a very numerous attend- ' ance of buyers, who eagerly competed for the v&riotis aJJetments. The quarter-acres sold for Xrom-£2O upT»y63s each ; the back half-acres from £25 tfp.tp £ps; \the,.acre allotments, £4O up to £80; and the larger brooks from £39 up to £lls per acre. —————*^—■— —— ■ ■