COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2232, 23 April 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Thursday, April 20th, were as follows : Spirits, .£5lO 19s Id; tobacco. JCI29 10s ; wine, .£47 10s 6d ; beer, £>2 10*; sugar, -E-17 6s Ed ; ten, £l3 6s Bcl ; goods by weight. £27 18a ?d; ad valorem. .£IBB Is; other duties, .651 4s. Total, £IOSB Gs Id. COBN EXCHANGE. The following is the report for the week ending Friday, the 22nd instant: The Easter holidays, in which is comprised the Autumn Boce meeting, has so completely absorbed public attention that business in the grain trade has been exceedingly auiet. Values in all classes of grain are unchanged. The tonnage now on the borth loading gram for the United Kingdom is rapidly relieving the stocks held by the railway authorities, and ere long the block will be completely removed. 'Wheat —There is no change to report in values. Tuscan wheat in large lines continues to be the favorite parcels with shippers, 3s Od to 3s lud per bushel being the prices obtainable free on board in Lyttelton. Velvet chaff and pearl of really first-class quality, also, in large lines, will command 3s 7d to 3s 8d per bnshel, f.o.b. Wheats, of a grade below the beforementioned, 2d to 3d per bushel loss. Chick wheat varies a good deal in quality, and ranges from Is Od to 2s 9d per bnshel. Oats —The market has been rather better supplied daring the past week, bat prices are in no way altered, aod the tone of the market is decidedly firm Good stoat milling samples are reodily saleable at from Is 9d to Is lOd per bushel; feed quality, la 7d to Is 8d per bushol. Barley.—There is no alteration to note in the value of this cereal. There is, perhops, a better inquiry for lines of really good malting. Prices, however, are unchanged. For this quality 2s 6d to 3a 6d per bnshel is obtainable. Inferior malting camples are very unsaleable; prices nominal. Field barley iB coming into requisition at from Is 6d to Is 9d per bushol. Gross Seed.—The demand is not so brisk as in precod'ng weeks, and parcels comiDg to hand are ■ot so eagerly sought after. Holders, however, have in no way abated their demands. Wellcleaned farmers' parcels are still saleable at from 3s 6d to 4s 6d per bushel; indifferently cleaned, according to sample. Potatoes.—Growers appear die inclined to do business at the money offered, whilo buyers are equally opposed to make any material advance. Sales have taken place at from 35s to 36a. At country stations, within a rndius of from seven to eight miies of Christchurch, 40s per ton has boon given where the potatoes have to be quitted, and delivery taken when required. Choeße and Butter. —There is no alteration in valued during the week The former is in plentiful supply, at from 3d to 3Jd. The latter is more free of sale, at from 7d to 7.Jd. Hay.—sos to SSs per ton, delivered in Chriatqfanrcn. ,