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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1400, 10 August 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

♦ The Customs duties collected here on Thursday, August Bth, amounted to £414 6s lOd. The items ■were:—Wines, £6; spirits, £147 16s 8d; tobacco, £ll6 12s 6d j tea, £4l 9s 6d; sugar, £9B 19s 7d; goods by weight, £2412s 7d jad valorem, £8 16s. LAND SALES. Mr Charles Clark reports the following recent laud sales made by him : Town Lauds—The premises in Tuam street and Oxford terrace, formerly occupied by Mr Williams’ foundry, fetched £ISOO. Tnc leasehold interest in town section No. 385, in Armagh street west, for £llsO, A freehold plot of laud in Colombo street north, for £SOO. Suburban Lauds—sß6 acres of laud at St, Martin's on the Heathcote, for £7044. Six building allotments near the lliccarton road, just north of the railway, at £ 13, £SO, £B3, £B6, £IOO, and £2OO each. Two small plots in Colombo street south, at £IOO each. Building allotments at New Cambridge, Ferry road, at from £2O to £75 each. Building allotments at Willow Bank. Windmill road, at from £3O up to £65 each. Building allotments at the back of Woolston, Ferry road, at from £BO to £IOO each. Allotments near Wilson’s bridge, at £6O each. Sections in the township of Epsom, at from £SO up to £BO each. There was a fair attendance at Messrs R. Walton and Go’s land sale yesterday, but biddings were exceedingly languid. The property in the Whately road, known as Bligh’s Restaurant, comprising a freehold and leasehold; the freehold having about two and a half years lease at about £6O a year rental, and the leasehold having six and a quarter years to run at a ground reut of £3O a year let for the same term at £65 per annum, were sold, leasehold and freehold as one property. They realised £1250, Mr Bligh being the purchaser. The lease of the corner of Tuam aud Barbadoes streets having twenty-seven years to run at a, ground rent of £l2 per annum for the first seventeen yours, aud £ls per annum for the last ten years, realised £lO5. The cottage of four rooms in Aldred street, Durham street, was withdrawn at £2OO. The Ashburton property not reaching the reserves were also withdrawn. The 632 acres of Government laud were withdrawn at £2 10s per acre. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Adckdand, August 9. Mr A. Saunders reports on the share market;— Buyers— Colonial, 56s as ; Bank of New Zealand, £24 5s : National, 78s ; Shipping, 86s ; iNow Zealand Insurance, 88s; South British, 70s; National, 27sj Loan and Mercantile (now), 67s 6d j Caledonian 60s; Piako 1» 2d ; Moanatairi, 57s 6d ; Alburuia, ‘4ss. Mr Alfred Bucklaud reports dairy cows £7 10s to £lO • dry, £4 10s to £6; fat cattle, 30s to 36s per hundred pounds. Fat sheep. 4d per pound. Dunedin, August 9. Produce is quoted Wheat, 4s ; barley, malting, 5s to 5s 6d ; teed, 3s to 3s 6cl; oats (feed), 3s iOd to 4s ■ pollard, £6 10s; bran, £5 10« ; flour, large bags, £ll small, £ll 10s; oatmeal, £2O; potatoes, £4 5s to £ 4 10s; bay, £5 to £5 10s; chaff, £4 10s per ton ; straw, £2 per ton, Bradshaw reports;—Bank of New Zealand, £2l bs- Colonial Bank, £2 18a; National Bank, £4; Standard Insurance, £i 2s 6d; Uniou Insurance, 15s and 15s 6d; Mosgiel Factory, £3 10s; Guthrie and Larnuch’s Factories, £2 17s 6d ; Scottish aud Now Zealand Investment Company, 18s. Five thousand of Guthrie and Lnrnach’s shares wore sold in London at £1 per share premium. Timaku, August 9. A sale of farm and town properties by J. T. Ford took place to-day, and was well attended; 3380 acres farms sold at an average of £l3 per acre, many buyers being from North Canterbury. Thirty, five section* of a town*bip so)4 a*. amag* £U {.ft option, tha highaot |J»» w e WU