COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2521, 8 May 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs duties collected at Christchnroh on Friday. May sth, were as follows : Spirits, £127 Its lid'; tobacco, .£BS 13s 6d; wine, £l9 16s ; beer, £ 7 16s ; sugar £i 13«4d; tea. £43 10s 4d ; goods by ■weight, £63 16s 3d ; ad valorem, £658 lla od ; other duties, £lB 15s Id. Total, £llsO 4s Id,

COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. Wellington. May 6 Mr James O’Shea reports : —Flour (Adelaide), £l6 10s to £l7 ; Canterbury do , £l2 to £i2 5s ; Oamaru do., £l2 to £l2 5s ; Timaru (Alien’s), £l2s to £l2 5s ; sharps, 110 s to 120* ; bran, 100 a to 105 s ; oats (ordinary), feed, 3s 9d to 3s 15. d ; potatoes, 45s to 50s, falling ; bams and bacon, 9d to lOd ; salt bntter, firm, 82 1 to 9d ; cheese, 6d to 7d. PROPERTY SALES. At Messrs H. Matson & Co.’s sa’o rooms, on Saturday last, the weekly sale of town and suburban properties was held. The attendance was very good, but a certain want of confidence prevails, which precludes any great amount of speculation on the part of would-be buyers A corner section of land,' situate at the junction of Gloucester street and Barbadoes street, being part town sections 650 and 652, containing 1 rood 12 pernhes, with two tw. -storied twelveroomed dwelling-houses and one six roomed bouse ereofed thereon, realised £2806. Also, 50 acres of land situate about two miles from Prebbleton. and being rural sertion 2905, so’d for £2O per acre, or £IOOO. Total sale, £3806.