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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2520, 6 May 1882, Page 2

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The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Thursday, May 4th, were as follows : Spirits,! .£3ll 6s 4d ; tobacco, ,£ll7 ss; wine, £32 ss; sugar, £l9 Js 8d; tea, £25 13s 4d ; goods by weight. £6119s 10d; ad valorem, £36 6s 3d. Total, £636 17s sd. At the usual sitting of the Waste Lands Board, held at Christchurch on Thursday, May 4th, sales were made as follows : —Ordinary : Selwyn, 61a 3? 38p ; Akaroa, 7a Ir Op; Ashbnr. ton, Ir 33p ; Geraldine, Sa 2r ; Waimate, 3a. Total acreage sold, 78a Or 36p. Total cash re ceived, £!5 >9a. Refunds on account of former purchases wore mads in the amount of £l4 17a. GRAIN AND PRODUCE. Business continues somewhat dull, and the feverish anxiety of a few weeks back is now notable by its absence. Wheat is quiet, and sales of good ordinary take place at from 4s 3d to 4s 6d, according to place of delivery._ For Tuscan a higher figare is obtainable, owing to •its high reputation as a milling wheat, rich in gluten. Flour moves off quietly at £ll 10s for town brands, and a shade less for country. Oats are the turn easier from buyers' point of view, but sellers have still a good opinion of the future, and act accordingly ; the result is that little if any business has been done. No improvement is noticeable so far as barley is concerned. Choice samples find ready sales at np to 4s 6d, bat fair to ordinary are more difficult to place, except at low figures. Grass seeds are not now inquired for, and the price is therefore nominal. Potatoes have been offering freely, and a large business has been done at 30s to 32a Cd, according to place of delivery. Bo far the exports are unusually light, only one small cargo having as yet gone forward. Butter i= in fair request at lOd for gbod quality, but the Gctuuzul lor ohooa. 1. loaa active than we should liko to see it. COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington, May 5. Messrs Lidbetter and Cooper report an absence of business in the share market Closing prices : —Bank of New Zealand, £23 14*: National Bank, 77a fid; Colonial Bank. 49a ; New Zealand Insurance, 19s ; South British Insurance, 575; Standard Insurance, 16s; Union Insurance, 22s fid (seller*); Colonial Insurance, 10s 3d ; Accident Insurance, 3s lOd; New Zealand Loon and Mercantile, 120 s; National Mortgage, 33s ; New Zealand Shipping Company, Ills fid; Mosgiel Woollen Company, 82s fid ; New Zealand Drug Company, 25s fid ; Wellington Trust and Loan, 116 s ; Wellington Gaa Company, £l3; Welcome Qoldmining Company, 133 s (ex dividend); Keep it Dark, 335.