COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5491, 1 November 1878, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

<J, Tho following are the duties collected at tha Customs yesterday:— . .

Mr. J. H. 'Wallace's sale of Loxley Halt Estate took placo yesterday, the attendance beini; ?noJ. The following prices were realise;!:—Lot 1, £159 7sCd;' 2 £150: 3. £ll3 15s: 4. £Hi'J 6a; 5. £O3 :0. £O9 : 7 £123 153: S. £143 103 19, £302 IVs ; 10, £130; 11, /SO : 12. £53 10* ; 13. £52; 14. £45 103 : 15. £33 ; HI, £172 j 17, £45 7a Gil; IS. £ll 5; ; 10. withdrawn ; SO. "s 1 * 103 Total amount of sale. £-2105. Mr. Guildford's property w withdrawn at £375. Public Hall shares were sold at 32s Gd. Georeo Thomas reports :—Flour (Adelaide), «17 : oats, 43 8d to 43 0d ; flour (colonial). £ll to £lllos ; bran. Is lid to la 9d: wheat. 43 4d ; hams, 9d : bacon, Sd : cheese. 7d; uriize, Si 3d ; potatoes, £4 ; butter, 13. These quotations aro the same as last week with tho exception of flour and bran, and these lines have a downward tendency. LAND SALE 'AT SIAKTON. Marton. October '2O. Messrs. Harris Bros, report the re3ults of their great land sale as follows:—Marton—Sab-section K, Broadway £125, Monro; sub-section J, Broadway, £SO, Monro; subjection f, Broadway, £SO;.C. McDonald; sub-section F, Bond-3treet. £2O. Monro; sub-section C, £2O; sub-section IJ, Bond and Hair streets, £27 ids Monro: sub-section H. with four roomed house, £125, W. G. Watt; sub-section O, witli sit-roomed house. £250, Lyon and Levy: sub section E, Lambertstreet, £25, Hemes; sub section I), Lambert-street, £23 Parker: sub-sec"io'i A. Lambert and liairstreets, £35,' Hi/gin; section 124, Broadway and Bond streets, with four-roomed house, £°M5, C. 3 Monro; section 13 Broadway, w th shop and t.wo rooms, leasehold, £l2O, W. a. Watt; section 7, Broadway, leasehold £SO. W. O. Watt: section 43. Bond-street, £23, Morrison ; section 71. Oxford street. £27. Bain ; section 7-2. Oxford-street, £27. Bain. Block 17-Section 93, Follctt-street, £3O, Smith : section 04, Follettstreet, £3l, Bell: section 95, Follett-street, £3l, Bain; section 03, Follett-street, £3B, "Waters; seHion 97. Grey-street. £27, G. Slight: section OS, Pukepapa, £33. Bett; section 03, £33, Bett: section 100, Grey-street. £27, G.' Slight; section lot. Greystreet, £2B, J. Danahay ; section 102, Pukepapa, £34, Bett; section 103. Pukep.vpa, £2O, Beaven ; section 104. Grey-street, £-30, Beaven ; section 105, Pukepapa, £3O. Beaven ;. section 108, Grey-street, £3l, Beaven ; section 107, Grey-street. £45. Wilton ; section 108> Grey-street, £35, Wilton; section 100, Grey-sTeoS, £42. Watt; section "110, Grey-street, £3O. Warn: section ill, Crey-street, £l4, Watt; section 17 »irid parts of 15 and 10, Signal-street, £2lO, Watt; section 17, with irlass-house, £l4O. Nicholson. BlocJc 17—Sub-section 52a, 1 ollett and Stewart streets, £3B, Bos3elman; sub-section 52b, Stewart-street, £2B. Lowe; sab-3ection 43a, Stewart-street, £29, Moncroiff; section Mn, Stewart-street, £US, 3. Follett; section 28, Will am-street, £39, Bain; section ft r William-street, £29. G. Slight ; secfc'on 43, Williamatreet. £3O, G. Slight: section 23; Wellington-road. £3l, JDes Forces; section 22. Wellington-road, £3l, Dr. Skerman : section 54, Beaven-street. £2l, Maso • : section 54a, Beaven-street, £25, Rogers : section 53, Eu«ell-street, £25, Bain ; section 53a. Eiksoll street, £25. Smith-; section. 57, Eussell-street, £23. E. ■I. Harris ; section 50, Rus3ell-street, £25, E. 3. Harris; sub-section 10, lllgh-str»ot. 33ft allotment, £SO, Fulton: sub-section 10. 23ft, High-street, £75, Stevenson and Stewart; section 13, High-street, £125, "Koss ; sub-section 51a, Eoss-strect, £l9, Bossolrnan; sxib-section oln, Eoss-strect, £lB, Nelson; sub-section 01c, Be iven and Boss street!, £23, Pulton; sub-s ction U2\, Beaven and E 033 streets, £27, Fulton; snb-sec-tion 52/), Beaven and Eo:« streets, £23, Hemes; subsection G2o, Beaven-street, £24, Bell; section 2 at tho railway station, with store and four-roomed house, £260, Signal; section 3, railway station! £l3O, It. .1. Harris; section 4, r-dlway station, £l3O, Thurston;, section 1, railway station, £lO9, W. Morrison; section 121, Pukepapa-roail, £25. Fulton; section 130, Pukepapvroad, £3O. Russell. Total au,onnt realised. £3664 10s. Since our sale "f 25th May wo consider jn-operty In Marton has increased ouite 50 per cent. We were (clad to notice many purchasers from a distance, and many of our townspeople held orders to buy for absent friends. Altogether the sale was an unqualified succes), and proves that the demand/for Marton sections is greater than the supply. " ; BX TELKOHAPH. AUCKLAND SHAKE MAttJCET. (fbo;i obj» ow.f oonnEsi'oxDE.vf.) AUCKLAND, T.mrralay. Mr. Alexander Saunders reports:— N ew Zealand Insurance, 85s; Colonial InsurAiico, Gs; Sr , u th British Insurance, 07s Od; National Insurance!, 27s Cd; Union Insurance, l(is : Hank, of New 2>a .i an d, £24 ss; Guthrie, 783: S'sh and Door, £' t o ss; Shipping, 85s; Alburnia, 22); Kurunui J3r.ii, 103. Beauty, -Is. (r-Efc pr-Kss aoekovV CUEISTCUURCH. Thursday. Broadituffs have hardened in com jcriuenco of tsceut wheat shipments to the Homo rr .arkot. Oats are firm at Is 31; barky, no stock aw .ijublc ; hams ?.nd bacon (in cloth) have advanced Uj h<X, owing to largo cipotl). Other product uuchanjr.od. IN ViiUCAEGUVL. Thursday. U C i". Martin's salo of properties to-day there was a e«°d attendance/. The bidding was-spirited considering *- ue present lull. Tho l*Mt,bourn fcstato, containing 615 acres, wa3 first olforr,d, and felt to E. Tapper at £3 2s (id pernors: an eighth of an acre section la E'k-strcet and la a good position was boualit by the New Zealand insurance Company for '•9so' section 81, block C, Jacob ISiver. containing 30 acres'of the Ohau busli, was sold to Mr. 3. E. Mills Mt £2 5s per acre; 14 allotments at S nth ItivcrtO'i soldas follows:—3 three-'iuurter aero sections toHoran, «arh nil - three 1-aero sections, each £3los, to Mills; nine 1-acrc sections, e.ch Cg. to WiUon.

»„,„,„.«,. £ a d Spirits .. .. J71 Hi 8 1. Wina .. .. 20 0 10 I Tobacco .. -17 12 0 1. Tea .. .. 20 15 0 Sugar .. • • 0 G S Weight .. 18 11 U|

£ s. d. Ad valorem .. S 6 G Other duties .. 21 10 9 ; Ale (bottled).. 13 0 Tot.il .. .£329 7 0