COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1418, 31 August 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected here on Thursday, August 29th, amounted to £7BO 12s lid. The items were .—Wines, £lO6 Os lOd ; spirits, £298 12s lid; tobacco, £230 17s 6d; cigars, £39 15s; tea, £l2 7s 6d: chicory, £2B; sugar, £55 19a 2d; goods by weight, £2 15s; other duties, £6.

LAND SALES. Messrs R. Walton and Co. held a sale of city and suburban properties yesterday. There was a fairly numerous attendance, but the biddings were languid. The following sales were effected Part E.B, No. 33, lots 10 and 11, containing 1 aero having a frontage of 200 links to the New Brighton road by a depth of 500 links, with three cottages, was sold for £762 10s. A piece of laud, lot 108, in the City of Christchurch, situate in|Ly ttelton street, off Madras street, having a frontage of 90 feet to Lyttelton street by a depth of 30 feet, was sold for £9l. A section at the comer of Manchester and Worcester streets was withdrawn at £llOO. A five-roomed house in Worcester street east with hall, known as Godley’s Hall, was withdrawn at £5lO. A cottage at Dovleston, with half acre of land, was withdrawn at £lOl. Mr Charles Clark held an important sale of land on Thursday last at the Southbridge Town Hall, consisting of Mr E. J. Lee’s estate, known as Brooklands, at which there was a large attendance. Five out of the seven farms submitted to auction found purchasers after much competition, at prices varying from £23 up to £27 10s per acre, and the small paddocks brought from £2B up to £4O per acre. Altogether 737 acres were disposed of, realising a total sum of £18,500, and the remaining farms are under offer. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Auckland, August 30. Mr A, Saunders report on the share market Buyers—National Insurance, 27s ; South British, 70s ; Union, 14s; New Zealand, 89s ; Bank of New Zealand, £24; National Bank, 78s; Colonial, 58s; Auckland Gas, £lO 5s j Thames Gas, 30s : Corby, 15s; Alburnia, 48s; Moanatairi, 50s ; Kurunui Hill, 10b lid; Premier, 2s. Tijiarc, August 30. Barley, 5s 6d: oats, 4s 2d; still rising. Very little ■business doing. Wellington, August 31. The Customs revenue collected at the port of Wellington during the month of August was £21.200.

WASTE LAND SALES FOR AUGUST, Counties. a. r. P. 20 per cent. Receipts. to be refunded. £ s. d. £ s. d. Ashley ... 17,011 0 31 ... 3-4,023 8 6... 6804 9 8* Belwyn ... 0,745 1 8 ... 19,490 12 0 ... 3898 2 5 Akoroa ... 2,665 2 0. ... 5,331 0 0... 1066 4 0 Ashburton 16.229 2 0, ,.. 32,459 0 0 ... 6491 16 0 Geraldine. 7,460 2 0 ... 14,921 0 0... 2984 4 0 Waimato .. 2,981 2 0 ... 5,963 0 0 ... 1192 12 0 Totals... 56,093 2 2 112,187 0 6 22,437 8 li