COMMERCIAL.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 431, 30 October 1875, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

The Customs revenue collected yesterday was as follows ' £ b. d. Spirits 20 18 4 Drapery 79 12 0 Wine 22 16 0 Tobacco ... ... ... ... 30 10 0 Sugar 10 8 10 Sundries 21 9 1 £lB6 14 3 We have no improvement to note in the grain market, business continuing very dull. Wheat is rather easier, and sales have been made at 4s, but we understand buyers are not inclined to operate to any great extent at this price. Oats are still being ottered in large parcels, and at reduced prices, but there is no disposition shown by buyers to lay in stocks beyond Immediate requirements. Flour continues dull at late quotations. Potatoes have become quite unsaleable at any price, and large quantities are in the market without a purchaser. Dairy produce is without alteration. Hams and bacon continue quiet, the demand for export having, apparently, ceased for the time being. A nice parcel of farmers’ cure was purchased during the week at B}d. Buyers’ quotations are—Prime milling wheat, 4s; do oats, 2s 4d, barley, unsaleable; flour, £9 10s in sacks ; £9 17s 6d in 1001 b bags; £lO 5s in 501 b bags; bran, £4 10s ; sharps, £5 10s ; butter, lOd; cheese, Bjd ; hams and bacon, prime cure, 101 d bare, and lid cloth, f.o.b. Business in the import markets has shown signs of improvement during the past week. Sugars—By advertisement we note the entire cargo of Mauritius sugar per Mayflower will be oflered by public auction on Wednesday next, the 3rd proximo; as the market at present is almost bare of Mauritius sugars, we predict a ready ■ale lor this cargo. We understand other cargoes, or portion of cargoes, are on the way to this market, bub will not arrive for some time, as they are not due yet. The usual trade sales have taken place in Mauritius whites and Colonial Company’s at £46 to £47, and £45 to £45 10s, d.p. Yellow crystal sugar and brewers’ crystals have been enquired for, and will no doubt be bought up readily ex the above vessel, as the stocks held at present are but a very, few mats. In teas we have not much to report. The parcel ex May is now offering to the trade, but, with the exception of a few trade sales, we hear of nothing of great moment to report. We understand the Anna Dorothea has been secured at Foochow, to bring a cargo of teas for this port and Dunedin, and is due here about the end of November. Tobaccos—We have several large sales to report in Venus twist tobacco (in cases) at is Bid to is Bjd, i.b. Other lines of twists have met with fair trade sale; best brands in quarter tierces have been quitted at is 8d to Is BJd. There has been very little done in spirits; we have nothing beyond trade sales to report. Ales and stouts do not call for any ■pecial remark; quotations remain as last. English hops—This market is bare of these, but we understand a parcel of the above has been secured from a Melbourne traveller at a price like 2s Bd. It is to be regretted that our brewers should have to go out of the market to buy their hops. We also noie .hat the Californian hops are coming into favor here; brewers say they cost much less than the English, and will go as far, if not farther. Cement meets with ready purchasers at 20s 6dto2is, d.p. Galvanised iron—A few small parcels have been moved oil - at £35 to £36. Candles are disposed of freely at lid. Mr Charles Clark reports the following recent sales:—Country properties—loo acres of land, near Leeston, fenced in, for £2025; a farm at West Eyreton, ot 670 acres, for £4300; an acre of land, with small eoltage. at Leeston, lor £550; 20 acres of land, with small house, at Geraldine, for £400; 90 jlcreß of very superior land on the West Coast road,

26 miles from Christchurch, for £SOO ; sections of land, near Wilson’s bridge, at £IBO per acre; land about half a mile back irom the Papanui road, at 6)80 per acre; sections of land on and near the Great South road, about six miles from Christchurch, at £3O per acre; land on the Riccarton road, part of the Middleton estate, at £IOO per acre; a paddock ot eleven acres near the Middleton railway station, for £lB6. Town properties—Christchurch: A plot of land, rather over half-an-acre, in Madras street north, with a small house, for £1000; a plot of land in Salisbury street west, with house, for £525; land and two cottages in Cambridge terrace, for £OSO ; a plot of land in Worcester street, 56ft x 165 ft, near Manchester street, for £625 ; a building site in Cashel street west, 47ft x 115 ft, for .£240; a building plot, in Peterborough street; east and Cambridge terrace, for £4OO ; and one small site near same, for £120; two small building plots in Chester street east, for £250; a small section, with cottage, on the East town belt, for £200; Mr Murray - Aynsley’s seventy-seven sections, not far from Colombo street south, laid out in blocks, containing 25 perches up to 34 perches each, brought from £SO up to £76, and two lots fronting Colombo srteet sold for £lsl and £l5O respectively; only a few sections remain unsold. Leeston: 31 sections of laud, of half an acre and less, realised from £22 up •to £57 each, according to position. Southbridge : Half-acre allotments brought from £ls up to £2O each, and small paddocks from £27 10s up to £4O per acre. Hoyles ton :40 sections, from J up to half an acre each, sold for from £2O up to £4O, and one corner lot brought at the rate of £l5O the acre. Hororata : 9 quarter-acre sections sold at £lo each, and an acre and cob house for £l6O. Household Furniture and Effects—At the recent sales, held on behalf of C. M. Wakefield, Esq, and Mrs Winter, all goods sold exceedingly well. This report is an assurance to the public of the steady and healthy demand for town, suburban, and country properties.