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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2395, 6 December 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchnrch in Saturday, December 3rd, were as follows :—Spirits, .£2-9 5s 6d ; wine, £5 13s; beer, .£32 11b ; sugar, -557 14s lid; tea, £l3l 10s ; goods by weight, £2O 13a Sd ; ad valorem, £4O 13s. Total, £SOB 0s lCd. COBN EXCHANGE, The following is the report for the week ending Friday, December 2nd : The past week haa been but a repetition of the previoua one. Business in the grain trade is almost at a standstill. The weather continues very dry, and farmers are beginning to complain. Wheat—Good Bound milling is worth from 4s 6d ts 4s 9d per bushel f .o.b. ; second quality, 4s to 4b 3d per bushel; chickwhoat, 3a to 3s 6d per bushel. Oats—Values appear to have experienced a eiight relapse (i.e., from the prices ruling when the apart took place); good stout milling ore worth from 2a to 2a Id f.0.b.; feed quality to la lOd to la lid per bushel. Barley—Little or no buaineaa is being transacted in this cereal. The malting season ia now over, the only buyers for good malting ore the shippers ; samples of the foregoing range from 2s 9d to 3s, feed 2a to 2a 3d per bushel. Potatoes —The season ia now so far advanced that old potatoes are not much wanted, new ones now beginning to take their places. Prices from 25a to 27s 6d, sacks included. Cheese and Butter—The former is in good demand, particularly that from the favorite dairies, and readily saleable at from 4d to 4Jd per lb; the latter is plentiful at 5Jd to 6d per lb. COMMEBCIAL TELEGEAM3. Dunedin, December 5. Mesara Cargills, Gibba and Co. have received the following wool telegram, dated London, 3rd instant:—" Since our last prices for all aorta show an average decline of a half-penny per pound "