CUSTOMS DUTIES.
The following is a statement of the Customs duties 'collected at the port of Lyttelton for the week ended yesterday :—Spirits, £2121 0s Id; cigars, £358 lis lid; tobacco, £1025 ls 3d; wine, £145 14s 8d: beer, £121 2s 8d; £933 5s Id; other duties, £100 16s lid; surtax, 2s 2d; total, £5500 16s 2d.
Messrs T. E. Shi el and Co., Fruit Produce and Grain Auctioneers. Market prices. Auction - sales held daily; consignments and correspondence solicited ; prompt account sales and cheque. Tomatoes —Scarce, hotliouse od to 7_d; outdoor extra choice, 3Jd to 4d; medium, 2ld to _d per lb. Cucumbers— Hothouse, os 6d per dozen; outdoor, 4s per quarter'box. Pears—Bon Chretiens plentiful supply, 4s Gd to 5s 6d; Josephines and-Bergamots, up to 6s. Plfims—Good dessert sorts, "Angelinas Green-Gage, _$'& to 3d. Apples—Ripstones, 7s 6d; Cox's Orange, 8s; large green cookers,- Ss per bushel box. Grapes—-Hothouse 7d per lb. Marrows —7s to 8s per sack. .Cauliflowers—.s to 7s- per sack; cabbages—4s. Onions — Strong demand, supplies Jight/ choicest Canterbury's £9* 10s to £10 per ton; pickling onions, small.ld to l.d per lb. Honey—New season's 4d'pe. lb. Egigs —Fresh, Is 3d per dozen. Cheese— Best factory, 6Jd per lb.' A trial solicited. 6
STOCK EXCHANGE OF CANTEEBUBT The following sales were-, reported on 'Change yesterday.—Westport Coal, £1 7s 3d;
Waihi-Grand Junction, £1 7e 9d. ' The following are the latest quotations:— £ •. d. BANKS— . ■ : '■ National of New Zealand .. ' 5 16 0 New Zealand ... ... .. 11 0 0 Union of Australia .. .. 64 10 0 FINANCIAL— • National Mortgage .. *. 315 0 N.Z. Loan and Mercantile .. OIV 0 ■ N.Z. and K. Plate Land .. 2 0 0 Permanent Investment, Cant. .. 10 0 0 GAS— Aahburton .. .. .. 6 10 0 Auckland (£5 paid) .. ' .. S 7 8 Christchurch .. .. . • 9 5 0 Feilding .. .. ..125 Hokitika .. .. .. SIS 0 Wellington (£lO paid) 18 0 0 Wellington (£3 5 3 paid) .. .. 16 0 0 INSURANCE— ' National of N.Z. ... .. 1 18 6 New Zealand .. ..- .. 415 0 South British of N.Z. .. 314 0 Standard of N.Z 1 11 3 MEAT— British-N.Z. Meet .. .. 10 0 Canterbury Frozen Meat .. 8 0 0 Christchurch Meat Co. (£lO paid) 15 10 0 Christchurch M«at Co. (£5 paid) 715 0 Christchurch Meat Co. (£3 paid) 410 0 Christchurch Meat Co. (£2 paid) 3 0 0 £4 Christchurch Meat Co. (£2 paid) 3 0 0 Gear Meat Co. (£4 paid) .. 13 0 0 Gear Meat Co. (£1 paid) ..360 Wellington Meat Export (£5 paid) 6 5 0 Wellington Meat Export (£4 paid) £40 Wellington Meat Export (£2 12* 6d paid) .. .. .. 3 0 0 SHIPPING— N.Z. Shipping Co. .. .. 15 0 0 Union Steam Ship .. .. 2 0 0 WOOLLEN MANUFACTURING— Kaiapoi .. .. .. 510 0 Mosgicl .. .• ..390 Wellington .. - - 315 0 COAL^Taupiri .. .. — ..119 Weatport .. .. ..178 MISCELLANEOUS— Booth, Macdonald and Co. .. 10 6 Cant. Farmers* Co-op., Thn«.ru .. 219 0 Mason, Struthcxß (£1 paid) .. 14 6 Mason Struthers (14i paid) .. 017 0 Milburn Lime .. .. 2 00 Golden Bay Cement-Co. .. 14 6 N.Z. Drug Co. ... .. 211 0 N.Z. Farmers' Co-op. .. .. 310 0 N.H. Farmers' Co-op, (pref.) ..550 N.Z Portland Cement .. ... 110 G N.Z. P«per Mill. •• •• J" J JJ Whitcombe and Tomb* .. ell U BREWERIES- . Cio-wn BreweTy (ex. rights) .. 116 0 Manning and Co. .. .. 410 0 Ward and Co .636
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14293, 2 March 1912, Page 10
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