COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2244, 7 May 1881, Page 1

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Thursday, May sth, were as follows Spirits, £590 5s 6d ; tobacco, £llß 13s 6d ; wine, £2l 4s; beer, £3B Is 8d ; sugar, £sl 4s 3d; tea, £55 9s Id; goods by weight, £24 15s 8d j ad valorem, £ll ISs. Total, £950 ICs lid. At the usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board held ~at Christchurch on Thursday, May sth, sales wore made as follows Ordinary : Selwyn, la3r; Akaroa, 189 a. Total acreage sold, 190 a 3r. Total value, £3Bllos. Eotunds were made on account of former purchases in the amount of £299. In consequence of the largo number of entries at Messrs Matson, Buss nud Co.’s yards, Eaugiora, on Friday, together with the general low price of horses, the sale was somewhat dull, except for very high class animals, which brought fair prices. Messrs J. T. Ford and Co. report on their special horse sale yesterday as follows: —The Eepository was filled with first-class horses, and there was a very good attendance of buyers. The chief attraction was a draft of really grand horses from the Lowolilfs estate. The following are some of the prices obtained for these : —£raughts, £3l, £3l, £3O, £23, £23, £2l, £l9. £lB, £l7, &c„ &0.; hacks, £lB, £ls, £ll, £lO, &c. On account of other owners draughts sold at from £ls to £25, and hacks at from £ls to £lB. The Clydesdale stallion General Stonewall Jackson, was offered, but passed in at 75 guineas. Mr GnA.ni.ss Clark reports the sale yesterday, hy private treaty, of G acres, quite at the rear of the Bryndwr township, at £7O per aero cash. Also of the property at Bingeland, offered by auction Oil the previous day, and then withdrawn. To-day, at noon, ho holds an auction of three valuable lots at the junction of Bast town bolt and Hereford street, and of 25 quarter-acre sections at Sumner, for which ho anticipates a clearance, os prices asked are very low, nud the terras of payment remarkably easy. COMMEECIAL TELEGEAMS. Auckland, May 6. Stocks of oats ore Arm and hardening ; feed sorts are worth 2a 3d, and maize is scarce. The Eingarooma brought two small parcels from Sydney, which are reckoned to bo worth 3a 9d to 4a. Nearly 800 oases of salmon arrived by the City of New York for this market. San Francisco advices say that the market there is almost cleared out and higher rates are asked, and none of the now catches may bo expected for a mail at least, and more probably two mails hence. The ruling rate hero is 3s. Wellington, May 6. Mr James O'Shea reports :—Flour, Adelaide, £l3 10a to £l4 ; Canterbury, £9 10s to £lO ; Oamarn, £9 15s to £lO ss. Oats—Peed, 2s. 2s 2d ; milling, 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Potatoes, 50s to 60s; maize, 3s to 3a 3d ; barley, 2s to 2s 4d. Dunedin, May 6. Prime beef, 25s per 1001 b. ; mutton, I2jd j prime milling wheat, 3a lid ; milling oats, Is lOd ; barley, no change. Store sheep and cattle are in good demand.