COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1429, 13 September 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected here on Wednesday, September 11th, amounted to £556 Ha 9d. The items were:—Wines, £63 12s 7d; spirits, £lB3 9a lid ; ale in bottle, £9 Is 3d ; tobacco, £4417s 6d; tea, £26 15s; sugar, £63 19s 7d; goods by weight, £l9 Is 7d; ad valorem, £139 10s j other duties, £6 4s 4d. The beer tax for the week ending September 11th amounted to £lO7 19s 9d. LAND SALES. Mr Charles Clark reports the following sales in land made by him during tho current week. Three sections of land at Opawa, each containing 1 rood, at £OO each ; a small section on private road, leading from South belt, near Madras street, £l5O ; half an acre of land on Lark terrace, near the Carlton bridge, £1150; a quarter-acre section in Armagh street, near Barbadoes street, £375 : a small plot, close to last-mentioned piece, for £170; 14 acres at Middleton for £1695; a farm of 95 acres at Southbridge for £2375. At his auction sale on Wednesday, he disposed of two cottages on the Wiudmill road, south of the railway, realising £350 and £345 each. Of the property fronting the River Avon, near to tho boat sheds, the following lots were sold

caused considerable competition. On Thursday (yesterday), he had a large attendance at auction, when he succeeded in disposing of Merivale House and grounds, the property of W. H. Lane, Esq. A start of £SOOO was given, but bids of £250 each came quickly, until £7OOO was reached, when Mr P. Cunningham was declared the purchaser. Four of the Avonside allotments, each containing two roods, were disposed of for £l5O each, and the remainder, it is confidently expected, will be cleared within a short time. Mr Joseph Fletcher offered for sale yesterday, at his rooms, Lyttelton, four sections of land on Jackson’s road, the property of Mr T, S. Jenkins. There was a good attendance and the bidding was very spirited, the whole block being sold at an average of £2 per foot. Messrs Maclean and Winter held a land sale at Ashburton on Tuesday, at which there was a large attendance. An improved farm of 100 acres, belonging to Mr Clarke, was sold for £ls an acre. Ashburton town sections were sold at from £6O to £l3O each. Sections in the Waterton Township realised from £ls to £22 per section, COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, September 12. George Thomas reports produce prices Flour, Adelaide, £l7 ; colonial, £li to £1115s; oats, 4s 8d bran. Is 8d ; wheat, 4s 3d; hams, 8)d; bacon, 84 cheese, 7id; potatoes, £4 15s; pollard, £7 10s maize, 3s 6d ; butter, lid.

Lot. £ 8. Lot. £ 8. S 125 0 9 102 10 4 105 0 10 97 10 5 100 0 11 97 10 6 ... 100 0 11 120 0 6a 87 10 15 130 0 7 105 0 3 122 10 8 105 0 Those sections averaged one quarter each, and