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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2238, 30 April 1881, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Till! Customs duties collected at Cliristcliurcli on Monday, April 28th, wero as follows :—Spirits, £154 7s 2d i tobacco, £32 18s ; wine, £57 2s : beer, £9 10s 6d j sugar, £9317s 6d ; tea, £l3O Its 3d; goods by weight, £6B 9s 7d; ad valorem, £43 6s; other duties, £l3 15s. Total, £603 19s. COMMBECIAL TELEGEAMS, Dunedin, April 29. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. offered today the Hyde Home and Waikaia station of 18,000 acres leasehold, 14C4 acres freehold, and GOO acres leasehold for twenty-one years, together with 30.000 sheep, 270 head of cattle, and 24 horses. The biddings ran up to £21,500, at which figure it was knocked down to Mr Thomas Brydone. COEN EXCHANGE. The following is the report for the week ending Friday, the 29th instant: The state of the grain market during the past week is precisely the same as its predecessor, and no circumstance has arisen which calls for any special remark. Tonnage is more accessible, but rates are unaltered. The weather continues dry, and on the whole favorable, but rain would be acceptable. Wheat.—Tuscan wheat of good quality, in good shipping lines, is free of sale at from 3s 8d to 3s lOd f.o.b in Lyttelton. Pearl and velvet chaff, in similar suitable lines. 3s 7d to 3s 8d per bushel f.o.b. Hunter’s white, 3s 6d to 3s 7d per bushel f.o b. in Lyttelton ; seconds range from la 9d to 2s Gd per bushel. Oats. —Bright milling samples are free of sale at from Is 9d to Is lOd per bushel; feed quality la 7d to Is 8d; inferior feed samples 2d per bushel under these quotations. The tone of the market is firm, with the demand rather in excess of the supply. Barley.—The samples coming to hand arc, as a rule, vary inferior, and for this class the market is heavy and sales difficult to effect. The price ranges from 2s to 2s 4d per bushel. Firstclass malting is in demand and saleable at from 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel, and some parcels of extra fine quality now offering are seeking buyers at 3d per bushel over the highest quotation. Grass Seed. The demand has certainly abated, but prices are in no way affected ; holders are firm in their demands, and it is anticipated that prices will rule yet higher. Well cleaned farmers’ parcels are saleable at from 4s 6d to 5s per bushel ; indifferently cleaned vary eo much that each parcel has its distinctive value. Potatoes.—The market during the week has been decidedly weaker, and soles have taken place at quite 2s 6d under the previous week. Prices may be quoted at from 32s Gd to 35s per ton at country stations within a radius of from seven to eight miles of Christchurch, 3Gs to 37s Cd per ton delivered in Christchurch. Cheese and Butter.—The tone of the market has not altered daring the week, and the quotations are the same, 3d to 3Jd for the former, 7d to 7Jd for the latter. Hay.—.B2 15s per ton delivered in Christchurch. GEAIN AND PRODUCE. Business during the past week has been fairly active, and a considerable quantity of grain has passed into shippers’ hands. Wheat meets a good inquiry at 3s Gd to 3s 9d f.0.b., according to quality and description. At an auction sale during the week the highest price realised was 3s 7id f.0.b., and this for wheat actually afloat, and not, therefore, subject to tho possibility of railway storage charges. Flour is very dull, and only a retail trade doing. Oats are inquired for, but the prices offered do not tempt holders. Sales are reported _at Is 7d to Is 9d. Barley shows no sign of improvement, and sales continue to be made at Is 9d to 3a, according to quality, which is very varied. Eye grass seed is in excellent request at up to 4s 6d for good clean seed, but cocksfoot is neglected. Potatoes after running up to 36s have declined, and tho market closes weak at 80s to 32s Gd, delivered at •Toantry stations. Dairy produce is in only retail inquiry, and for export parcels there is no inquiry whatever. ENGLISH. Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited have received tho following telegram, dated London, April 2Gth : Wool Market unchanged. Up to date, 355.000 hales have arrived. Wheat—Market firm. New Zealand is worth 47s per 4961b5. Tallow—Market quiet. Mntton is worth 365, and beef 33s per cwt. SHARE MARKET. South British* Insurance, 545; Colonial Insurance, 11s lO.jd; Canterbury Tramways, -£5 7s Gd to £5 lOfl. Buyers National Bank, 67s ; Kompthorne, Prosser and Co.’s New Zealand Drug Co., 21s; Permanent Investment ami. Loan Association, (.810 paid), .811 Christchurch Gas Co. (i5lO paid), Tl 6 Christchurch Gas Company (.83 paid), £5 5s Canterbury Tramways Co., dBS 7s 6d; Standard Insurance Co., 11s 9d. Sellers—Union Insurance Co., 21s; Colonial Insurance Co., 12s, cum. div.; National Insurance Co., 29s ; Colonial Sank, 44a 6d; Now Zealand Shipping Co., jBS- - mouth Gas Company (£5 paid), £7 10s.