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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2691, 22 November 1882, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

’The Customs duties collected at Christchurch on Monday, November 20th, were as follows: —Spirits, .£9215s Id; wine, =£3s 7s 6d; b eer, 1314 8s; tea, 13411 s; goods by weight, .1352 3s 9d; ad valorem, 4s ; other duties, 1317 14s sd. Total, 13393 3s 9d. ADDINGTON CATTLE MAEKET. This Dat. At the Salcyards this morning, a goodly number of all kinds of stock were yarded. The attendance of buyers was not very 4 numerous. For fat sheep competition hardly so keen as of late, and values consequently declined. Heavy crossbreds, shorn, from 10s 6d to 12s 9d; merinos in the wool, 8s 9d to 13s 6d, average about l-Jd per lb ; store sheep, a heavy entry, enquiry fairly good. Ewes with lambs and hoggets, shorn or unshorn, in most instances changing hands at good values. Fat lambs —A large supply and good demand, at prices ranging from 6s to 9s. Pigs—Only a small entry, and little inquiry. Fat cattle —The supply of lat cattle was large, the demand very limited, and a great drop in prices resulted, some of the best pens being sold at little, if anything, above -£1 per hundred. The entry of store cattle is not a large one. T ae market had not opened when our report left.

AUCTIONEER’S REPORT. Mb Charles Clark hold an auction salo at his rooms yesterday of various properties. The first lot on the list was a section on the "Whateley road, on which Messrs Allen and • Sou formerly carried on business as sawanillors. Owing to a legal question the premises were not submitted to auction, nor was the saw-milling plant for the like reason. A very small section of land and cottage at Knightstown wore then offered and sold at -£122 10s. Following this was a cottage in George street, which was quitted at .£175. Next came a small section on the JEdgeware road, St. Albans, sold for .£B3 10s. A cottage in St. Asaph street East was then offered, which also found a purchaser at .£2OO. A section and cottage at Bingsland was offered, and withdrawn, but an offer was subsequently made most likely to lead to a bargain. Mr Clark reports the salo privately, and on Saturday last, of a property near the Racecourse sold for £ WOO cash. Total sales, -£2041. To-morrow he sells at his rooms all the sporting paraphernalia, books, &c., of the late Colonel Packe.