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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2606, 14 August 1882, Page 2

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m rha Ouftoms duties collected at Christohuroh on Friday, Augußt 11th, were as follows : Spirits, £209 10s 7d; tobacco, £26 8s 6d; aigara, £lB 17s 3d; cigarettes, 7s 6d; wine, JBl3 17s ; sugar, £72 3s 4d; tea, £54 9a; goods " by weight, £3O Is lOd; ad valorem, £215 10s ; other duties, £4 4b. T0ta1,£645 9s. CORN EXCHANGE. Baport for the week ending Friday evening, the 11th inat. : Boaineßs ia the grain trade during the past week haa been of the moat meagre description, and little or no quotable change has taken place in values. Buyers are, as a rule, vr ell supplied —wi'jh stocks, and appear unwilling to increase them. Orders from intercolonial ports could not be executed except at full rates. Wheat—Milling samples, of good quality, 4s lOd to 53 per buahel, f.0.b.; second quality, 4a 3d to 4s b'd per bushel; chick wheat, 3s 3d to 4s per bushel, f.o.b. i seed parcels, 5a 3d to 5a 6d per buahel. kOata— Good short milling, 3a 2d to 3a 3d per oahel, f.o b.; feed, 3s to 3a 2d, f.o.b. Barley—Prime malting is in good demand rom 4a 7d to 4a lOd per bushel; second class malting is almost entirely negleoted, prices nominal; feed parcels, 3a 3d to 3a 6d f.o.b. Potatoes—No change haa taken place in the market during the past week, business haa been of the most restricted character; last week's quotations must be repeated, 35s to 33s _at country stations within ten miles of Christohuroh. Cheese and Butter—7d to 7sd per lb for the former, la Id for the latter. Grasa Seed —Well cleaned samples, 5a 3d to 5a 9d per bushel; cocksfoot, sidto 5Jd per lb.