COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2495, 5 April 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Monday, 'A pril 3rd, were as follows : — Spirits, £572 10a Id; tobacco, £ll9 4s 2d; wine, £4O 17s ; sugar, J 846 7s 4d ; tea, £23 0s 8d ; goods by weight, £lO 8s 3d; ad valorem, £l2O. Total, £9lO 7s 6d.

At the nanal sitting of tho Waste Lands Board held at Christchurch on Monday, April 3rd, sales were made ns follows: —Ordinary—Selwyn, 2a 2r 30n; Akaroa, 2a 3r 20p: Ashbnrton, 12a 3r 22p ; Geraldine. 25a: Waimnto. 329 alr 39p. Total acreage sold, 372 a lr 31p. Total cash received, £744 17s 9d. Refunds on account of former purchases wero made in tho amount of £3 10s. LAND SALE. Eadcliree Estate.—Mr Charles Clark (in aonjnnction with Messrs H.Matson and Co.) held a very important sale at his rooms yesterday. The occasion was the sale of part of the Eadcliffe estate. Groat North road, near the Eiver Styx, tho property of the late John Bealoy, Esq. The land, about 435 acres in all, was subdivided into twentyseven sections of the acreages undermentioned. Tho majority of the lots are well watered by the Hirer Styx and tho Kapntone Creek, affording excellent pastnrage. There was a very large attendance of layers, chiefly North road farmers, who evinced considerable interest in tho sale, and showed a general anxiety to become possessed of portions of the estate, although at what to outsiders may seem extreme prices, but tho fact remains that the purchasers are for the most part, vory old residents in the immediate and therefore the beat judges of the estate. It will be> iuien from the list below that five of the farm lots and four of tho building sites on the Great North road are still unsold. These will bo sold privately on the same terms as when offered at auction. The following figures represent the lots, acreage, price per acre, aud total respectively:—Lot 1,5 a 2T 2Sp, £59 10s per acre, £337 13s 3d; lot 2, 5 a 3r 14p, not sold ; lot 3,5 a 2r 2lp, not sold ; lot 4,5 a lr 28p, nob sold; lot 5. 4a 2r 23p, £6 1 10 s per acre, £*Bo 19s; lot 6, fair, £6O por acre, £315; lot 7,4 aOr oOp, £6O per acre, £251 5b ; lot 8,4 a Or 4p, £52 per acre, £2OO 6s; lot 9,4 alr 26p, not sold; lot 10,13 aOr £op, £42 per acre, £553 17s Cd ; lot XI. 19a 2r lip, £lllos per aore, £Bl2 2s; lot 12, 26a 2r, £3O per acre, £79 >; lot 13, 18a 2r 38p, £47 per acre, £8?0 13s 3d; lon 14,27 a lr, £37 10s per acre, £lO2l 17s Gd; lot 35, 14a2r, £3B 10s per acre, £558 5s ; lot 16, 20a, £33 10s per acre, £670; lot 17. 21a Or 20p, not sold; lot 18, 21a 3r, not sold; lot 19, 27a lr Ifp, £3l 10s per acre, £B3l 18s ; lot 20, 26a, not sold; lot 21, 27a 3r 18p, £4l por acre, £1142 7s 3d; lot 22, 31a, £36 per acre, £1116; lot 23, 33a lr 2 *p, £36 per acre, £1202 17s 6d; lot 24, 26a lr, £35 per acre, £9lB 15s ; lot 25, 21a 2r, not sold; lot 26,19 a 2r, not sold ; lot 27, 34a lr, £3O per acre, £1027 10s. Total, £12,955 Is 3d. Following the above sale Mr Clark offered the lots Nos. 6,19. and 20, of the Kaputone Estate, adjoining Eadcliffe, the property of Samuel Bealey, Baq. These are the only unsold lots in Kaputoue, ttie remainder having been soM by the auctioneer at different dates. Lot 19, containing 20 acres, was passed in; lot 9, containing 38$ acres, was sold for £25 per acre (£960), and lot 20 failed to find a buyer. Total sa3« for the day wub 4?i3,0i5 1b 3d.