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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2119, 8 December 1880, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Monday, December 6th, were as follows Spirits, £149 4s 9d; tobacco, .£IOB 3s; wine, £34 6s ; beer, £SO 15s; sugar, £OS 7s 8d; tea, JGI36 16a 8d; goods by weight, £450 7s 7d ; ad valorem, £674 16s 3d; other duties, £75 0a lid; total. £1774 17s lOd. At the usual sitting of the Waste Land, Board held at Christchurch on Monday, December 6th, sales were made as follows: — Ordinary : Ashley, 50a; Ashburton, 2a 2r 23p; total acreage sold, 52a 2r 23p; producing £lO5 5s 9d. THE ENGLISH MAEKEXS. The following is Messrs Miles Bbos, and Co.’s colonial produce report, dated London, October 22nd WOOL. There is little change to report since our last advices. Not much business has been done, bat there have been some private sales, which, though small, give indications of somewhat greater activity in the home manufacturing districts. Continental consumption continues normal, but the demand from that quarter is slightly easier. The Antwerp series of sales of Biver Plate wools opened on the 19th instant with a numerous attendance of buyers, but the competition was not very brisk. The new arrivals for November comprise Bales. Sydney ... ... ... ... 6,050 Port Phillip 8,301 Adelaide 1,941 Swan Biver 211 Von Dieman’a Land 314 Now Zealand 11,494 Capo ... ... ... ... 31,026 Total 59,337 There will also be 35,000 bales in addition, which were held over from last sales. It is ox pec ted that there will be about i 120,000 bales •n hand by the time the next sales commences, WHEAT AND FLOUR. Winter seems to have set in early, heavy anew having fallen throughout Great Britain—a very unnsnal circumstance at so early a period. Since onr last,slight reaction in values has taken place in the wheat market; hut it is in so sensitive a condition that prices vary almost every market day, and on the whole prices keep steadily to previous quotations. Shipments from Atlantic ports to the Continent are on a large scale, owing to the deficient harvest in Germany and Bnssia, and the failure of rye. English wheat comes forward more freely, but samples are generally inferior in quality. Imports of New Zealand wheat have been smaller than was expected, and fine parcels meet with ready sale, while inferior are difficult to move. Oats sell slowly at previous rates. Flour in fair demand, and we hear that increased shipments are likely to come forward from Australia. Victorian wheat is worth 48s to 51s ; New Zealand, long berried, 43a to 535; fair average, 46s to 48a. and inferior, 41s to 45s per 4961 b. Australian flour, superfine, 34s to 35s ; New Zealand, 31s to 34s per 2801 b. Oats, fine, 28s to 345; and common feed, 24s to 27s per imperial quarter. TALLOW AND HIDES. The tallow market has been steady since onr last advices. The stock in importers’ hands is now only about 7400 casks, the amounts disposed of at late sales having been large. Today’s sales passed off with good demand. Beef advanced 6d per cwt.; mutton sold very irregularly ; the former realised 32a 6d to 33s 6d, and the Utter 33a 6d to 36s per owt. There have been no sales of hides since onr ast reports; next auctions lore fixed for 28th as toot. ' Bank rate, 2} per cent.