COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2515, 29 April 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Thursday, April 27th, were os follows Spirits, £155 12a 2d; tobacco, £ll 13a; cigars, .£l3 12s ; wine. £7; beer, .£ls 3a ; sugar, £25 15s Id; tea, J 327 13j 63 ; goods by weight, .£l7 Is 2d; ad valorem, £3O 18s; other duties, £9 15a 6d. Total, £349 3s sd.

At tba usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at Christchurch on Thursday, April 27th, sales were made as follows :—Ordinary, Selwyn, lair; Akaroa, 75a; Waimate, 15p. ; total acreage sold, 76a Ir 15p; total cash received, £!52 13s 9d. Eefunda on account of former purchases were made in the amount of £5 1b 9d. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. The past week has been a comparatively quiet one in the grain market. Wheat has been offering in fair sized parcels, but no great anxiety to operate has been shown at over 4s to 4s 5d for good milling wheats. Choice tnscan is, however, worth more than foregoing rates. Flour has rather improved in demand, owing to stocks of old in Northern markets being now well reduced; present f.o.b. quotation is .£ll 10s in 2001 b sacks. The oat demand is quiet, but prices are firm at 3s to 3a 3d for fair to good samples. Beans are commanding some notice for feeding purposes at 4s to 4s 2d per bushel. Barley remains dull and slow of sale for ordinary run of samples, but good, bright, well;filled parcels are readily taken up at 4a to 4s fid. Unfortunately, there is very little of the latter description offering or even obtainable this year. Grass seeds are quiet, and prices from 4s fid to Sa for rye. and 4Jd for cocksfoot. Potatoes have been offering freely, and sales carried through at 30s at some railway stations. An export demand is unfortunately conspicuous by its absence. Butter is in fair enquiry at lOd, and cheese at 4d to lid.