COMMERCIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6493, 19 December 1881, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

LytteHem Ttous Office, Saturday Evening.

CUSTOMS’ BSYISBUB. The foßovrixte WMtheChutosas* rovfsaaeeolloat®! oa Tbinday, Deo. 15Wiaea, £43 10» 6d; epirita, £M3 13a; imer, £47 7t; tea. £354 16a 5Mi Bvgmr, £lO4 15a; tobacco, £B7 l»s; eA relorm. £lB9 8*; other dutiee, £4O 14a Sd; total, £l2Ol W» «i. PROPERTY SALES. At the Lead and Estate Smteroocts of Messrs H. Mateon and on Saturday last, a moat import, mst sale of land wa» held, the large saleroom being crowded, atd at 2 o’clock when the anoiiorutsr. Mr J. T. Mateos, entered the auction-box, every east was takes, aad numbers standing. The greatest interest woe centred in a number of section* situate oa the Papauni toad, and known as Finglaa, aad after a very forcible speech the ealo commesoed. The tendency to ptaebaae was kalf orldeat, aad so doubt. If tbs owsev’e voforve bad not been quite so high, nearly all the sections would easily have found buyer*. The 1 te with frontage on the Papas id read were all sold at tbs following price*:—So. l.eonteinfaag 3d perthre (corner tooHob}, £150; Ho. 2, oostaising 39 perches, £145; Hoe. 3 and 4, ooatal&lsg each 38 perches, £l3O each; Mo. 5, containing 3S per«hee,£l£s; Ho.B, oontatcißg 38 perches. £l4O. The balance wee withdraws, and is now for private sale. The next property was the township at Seofottb, situate at Little Biver, oa the banks of Lake Forsyth, the at groat length opo& tbo picturesque locality and its faetliby position. The following lots were Bold Lot L oostainlßg 1 rood S perches, £45 1 Lota 40, 41, and 42, about i etsre e&cb. £l7each; Lota S 3 and 39. about 34 perchoa each. £ls each; Lot 45. 1 kxm 14 perches, £l4; LactLeontaisuigttpendMs,£l3; Lota lOandli, each 1 rood 4 perofaee, £lO each; Lotaßsand 83. each 1 rood 9 perebea,£lo each; Lota 13and 18. e mtaintng 40 puches, each £10; Lot 47, containing 39 parch*, s, £10; Lot 29, oo&tainiagSd perches, £lO. Total aale,£tm

M*hbh 3. T. Foss ado Co. offered the enbarb of FaJegrave by publio auction, at their rooms, ea Saturday. Now Of the bid* offered for the various Mottos* reached tb* owner#' reserve, and the pro* petty *h withdraws, to be treated for privately. OOMMEEOIALTEIEQB&MB. Wkludotos, Bee. 17. Fresh batter, fid to 7|d per lb t egg», 1* 3d per dot: (owl*. 3* lid per pair j coop of fowl* and dnoke, fat 3a; gecre. 3s m each j onion«, Id per lb j ut potatoes, fit per cwt, ENGLISH. Tbs following i* from tb* N.Z. Loan and Merean. til* Agency Company'* Cirenlar of Kov. 4 r Wool.— Bisoc the close of tbe lata eerie* transaction* bars bean of an onlmportant character, confined principally to tb* clearance of parcels withdrawn daring the auctions. Advice* from tb* Home manufacturing centre* continue aatLfao. tory, and a fair consumption of Colonial and tb* finer grades of Home-grown wool* to going on. la Franc* It to aunmad that shook* are not large, while ooMumera have been fairly employed during the foterr&L Considerable transaction* in tb* raw material have been reported in tbe United hints*, bat Uwir effect epos the English market baa not yet been apparent. Having regard to tbe general activity prevailing both In into country and abroad w# consider we are | (ratified in looting with wm confidence to the result of tbe fourth sertoe of mica to commence on Hov, 32 proving malefactorjr, more particularly In tbe owe of aoaod ahafty merino wools, which in ail probability wl-l be in liaiud supply, Tbe arrival* tor the fourth eerie* are as follows l&ftlflS* New South Wale* and Queensland 7,92* Victoria 11,038 Huuth Australia 8,<19 Western Australia Tasmania I,«M New Zealand 7,979 Cape of flood Hope 88,116 Total Cota Mstuer,—The wheat market daring tb* cast month has hem dull and unfavourable to eel. lens, reolia&tlomt in quantity having been itnpractt* - cable even at considerably reduced values, Tbe heavy supplies cf home-grown wheat that have beem. end oonttuao to te. pressed for sale at the country exchange*, nr* placed at rates materially lower than those current for imported produce, the result being that a liters prefer to make their pur. ebarea locally, to tbs segtoct of such foreign stacks as are on band in London granaries. Farmer*, too, are naturally anztoun to cell as early a* poeatble alter thieshug, enpeetolly while fairly high prior* are obtainable. In mdar to provide for the financial neoereltie* incident to thus teaeon of tbe year. Under there cireumstanM* a fall of about 2* to I* has taken place in Hew Zealand wheat, a* comI pared with the quotations of a month ago. while American and Hussion descriptions have also d*. i eUoad in aympathy. Australian wheat to reprei rented in London only by an losijraiflcant stock, I and it* vain* to consequently bat «H«btiy affected, i Ho badness in AwtralUn or Hew Zealand oareooe > “Aoat b«# been reported, bat about three weeks ego i w ®;* adviced of the sale of two cargoes from Now Zealand for Fjbruary.Maroh ehipiatiit at 91* *° a of • •“‘A' l cargo from Auetraliafee I the like dmpatoh at 93s fid, Australian on presage *»»ffe»sd at 53aforSeptemberand 63* for Comber . BUI of Lading. Among tbs arrival* off coast dor. . lug tbe month have been tbe Craig And, BIOS era, : Lyttelton, sold on Oct. 1» for HnUat Ms. ! Irafo, BMO ore, from Timaru, told on Oct. ‘d i *t Wf 3d tar Liverpool i Corby, from Lyttelton, or. i derad te Dunkirk j locs Lomond, from Lyttelton, ’ ordered te o*l*l*.. flood sample* of malting barley are comparative! t ! ecaree, and hence superior parcel* of Hew Zealand • command folly laat month's rates, but inferior lot* are difficult to util. Heavy mite are without chug*. Imt secondary qualities are dull owing to recent urga arrival* from the BaUte. Scum and

t«« ara wlthir t malarial altcraUoa. The follow, in# ara today’• quotation* ex granary s—«.trsSEsr* J «•«* “*«* »• •«» New Zealand, long berried ftS* «d to Wa M „ „ Arman ... Ms ed to ft*a fid „ Australian Flour, aupef V<* Pd to 4Sto Od per MOto. hoti»»b£>lds Ate lit to 37* At „ Now Zealand Flour ... 3#* Od to 3"« M „ „ tsste, fine, 5W* od to Sto Od porltn or, „ Old, feed It* W to 88s Od „ „ Nartey, teoliiitg 3(D Od to tot Od per *4Bl b. „ beans ... tie (hi to 4!k» Oil per MMU). ~ p*M... Ote dd 10 43S Od „ Australian swaa 33s Off to to* Od per M