COMMERCIAL.

Press, Volume XXI, Issue 2409, 25 April 1873, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

"Press" Office, Thursday. The Customs' revenue collected yesterday was as follows :— £ 8. d. £ c. d. Spirits 60 11 8 Tobacco 26 0 0 Sugar 12 6 8 Boots 114 0 4 Drapery 79 1 7 Sundries 65 0 9 Total £357 1 0 The land sold at the Waste Lands' Board to-day amounted to 4041 acres, realising i £SOB2. Ifc ia situated in the following districts: — Acres. Timaru 499 t Oxford 20 Malvern 175 Ashburton 459 Waitangi 2888

Hokitika—A Hokitika paper of a recent date reports that business during the past •week has Bhown a slight improvement. Prices firm. No arrivals of produce. The following are the latest quotations in the produce market :—Oats (scarce), 4s 3d to 4s 6d ; wheat, 4s 0d ; bran, la 4d to Is 6d ; flour (Adelaide), £17 to £18 ; (Provincial), £14, stocked ; salt butter, Is ; chaff (Provincial), £10 to £11 ; do (Melbourne), £13 10s ; cheese (scarce), 8d to 9d ; hams and bacon (scarce), 9d to 10d. Canterbury produce of all kinds in good demand. Stocks held seldom lighter.

The Ikon Trade—The London "Times" of January 17 gives the following information with reference to the export of irou from Great Britain in 1872 :—The Board of . Trade accouots show the following exports of iron and steel, in various stages of manufacture, the produce of the United Kingdom In 1870, 2,825,575 tons, of the value of £24 038,090; in 1871,3,169.219 tons of the value of £26.124.134; in 1572, 3,388.622 tons, of the value of £36,0(50,547. The export of 1872 was constituted as follows :—1.332.725 tone of pig iron, of the value of £6,721,966 ; 343,876 tons of bar, angle, bolt, aud rod, of the value of £3,635,558; 947.548 tons of railroad iron of the value of £10.237,768; 31,605 tons of wire (other than telegraph), of thevalueof £674,743 ; 208,423 tons of hoops, sheets, and „ boiler and armour-plates, of the value of £3,430,970; 2,364 cwt of tin plates of the value of £3,812,744 ; 269,614 tons of cast or wrought and all other manufactures (except ordinance unenutnerated) of the value of £4,778,785 ; 108,181 tons of old iron for remannfacture, of the value of £661,931 ; 45,285 tons of steel, unwrought, of the value of £1,491,240 ; and 11,130 tons of manufactures of steel and iron combined of the value of £614842. The total export of iron and steel in 1872 averaged 282,385 tons per month ; bnt the average was not attained " after September.