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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2345, 8 October 1881, Page 2

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The Castoms duties collected at Christ cfctirch on Thors day, October 6th, wero as follows £4216s 3d: tobacco, £l9l-Sa ; wine, £I?8 17s 3d; beer, £32 9s 6d ; sugar, £4C Vs lid; tea, £26 3s 4d ; iroods by weight, £5 I9s Sd; ad valorem, £52; other duties, £5-0 10s. Total, £983 lbs I'd. At the usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board held at Christchurch on. Thursday, lOctober bth, sales were made as follows : —Ordinary Ashley, 2a 3r 3p; ‘Selwyn, 4a €r sp; Akaroa, 23a **r -3p » Ashburtoa, 32a Ir Op ; Geraldine, 200 alr 7p. Lotai acreage sold, 263 aOv Ip. Total cash received, £526 OsSd. Refunds on account of former purchases werft made in the amount of £3lB 12s 6d. CORN EXCHANGE. The following is the report for the week. ending Friday, October 7tb : —There is no; change to report in the state of the market during the week. Business ia exceedingly quiet. The weather bts been extremely favorable f«r farming operations. Wheat—Good sound milling samples are worth from 4s 6d tc 4s 9d per bushel, f.0.b.; second quality, 4s to 4s 4d ; chick wheat, 3a to 3s 6d per bushel. Oats —There is no appearance of any improvement in the market. Good short milling quality, 3s 3d per bushel, f.o b.; feed samples, 2s to 2s Id; leng'Dats, Is lOd to 2a. The market ia Barley—Good malting samples are saleable at from 2a 9d to 3s 4d per bushel ; second class, 2a 3d to 2s 7d ; feed, Is 9d to 2s per bushel. Potatoes —A few orders are coming to hand •and are being executed at from 25s to 30s per -ton f.d.b. It ia almost hopeless that any very decided ctange for the better in values will take ■■place, the season is now so far advanced and the quantities held are such as to preclude hope. Grass Seed—There ia little or no business doing. Well cleaned farmers’ parcels, 5s 6d to ‘53 9d per bushel ; indifferently cleaned according to samp]e.