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Lyttelton Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2058, 26 July 1867, Page 2

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Lyttelton Times Office, Thursday Evening. The Customs revenue collected.at . Christchurch to-day amounted to £B4 lis 9d. The following are the items:—Spirits, £47 Os lid; •agar, £6 13s 4d; goods, per measurement, £3O l"s 6d.

; The Customs revenue, collected at the port of Lyttelton v£292;ls 3d. The following are theV item# :—Spirits, £52 16s; tobacco, £24 12s 6d ; beer, £95 ; wine, £lO 16s; other dutie«i £s.;.:gi)ods per measurement, £B6 9s lid; goods per weight, £ll lis; light dues, £2 15s lOd.

■ The following is an abstract of the quantity of laud sold in the various districts at the Waste Landg OflL-e to-dayChrist-cburch district, 100 acres; Tiinaru district, 5422 do; Mandeyille district, 14 do; Malvern district, 70 do; Waitangi district, 50 do; lytteltori district, 46 do. Total, 3702 acres, realising £7404.

V Hokitika, Tlia Wtst Coatt Timts of July 22 reports:—; We hare pleature in noting the commencement of active operations in the import market. Tho unworkable (tat* of the bar, which has continued for several weeks, has now terminated. The last .two dajs tlo entrance has been sufficiently good 1 to admit of several. cargoes reaching'■ the wharf, i carrying in the aggregate about one thousand toss of much-needed uicrch&odise. Bbould tho weather and the bar continue propitious, the balance of cargoes in the: roadstead : will \be brought to the wharf during the next two days. Wo may, therefore, .calculate that three thousand tons of assorted and much required stocks will be at ■ the wharf and landed. A larga pnporlijn comes .to the order of wholesale houses here, and w.ll be. taken into stock for trade purposes, and so interforing much leu with current , rates than tho receipt of so large an amount of tonnage under, other circumstances cuuld hare been expected.' It is satisfactory to note, as we had . occasion to wmark some months ago, that few shipments com* to this market as ventures. The comparatire uniform ra'es ruling for the past six for major staples is owing, in a great .measure, to ths Mund an'i judicious course taken .by mercantile houses, -wb'tse . local experience has been brought to bear fully on the reauireinents. of this; market Transacti'ins during the week bare been limited, but few goods have been, landed in time to place ia the market: A small parcel of Adelaide flour, submitted.to' the hammer, realising for Hauler's £1(1 I6n, Dudicld's £l9 2i 0d per ton. The market in very/bare. The Hector's cargo now.alongi.ide, with other additions to stock . ipamed isitely &vall a blw il I p rob&b I y chuck further advance. Tlio sUxks be considered tight. The tone of the Victoria »nd South Australian markelsi together with enhanced. freights to this port, will fully justify a permanent advance on tatea ru in? duii.ig th«i month.; Br»n: ; is scarce. Chaff, ei Pearl,' noMVat £2O per ton;ail faults; sound luts worth £25. / T«<eri potatoes have been placed at £l 1 per ton. The cargo nf the llanihee, consisting of oats arid poUlo.'s : >M: 6ffereil under the hammer on, the dav of her arrival, tho whole being withdrawn for higher rates, £9 1 Os.for p'otatoes, and 4s.::d for) oats, being : the . highest prices offered. Th»re is no alteration in wines;and spirits; since our last r port. . There is, a,, good demand for provision', and in fact fur most staple not recently available. The lurge amount of tonnage now at the wbitrf will give an impetus to business during the week,' tliat the mercantile Mmrnuiiity have been grangers to forfiotiie and tritnuctions will, Wl ' hope/, cnnbliy m to define market ralue* more closely in our noit report. The •mount of import dot es collected during the, week £1490 U &<!■ Ilinne? reports sale nf ...a,, ex Pearl, reali-ing for oats, 2d to 4* oj M r bushel; notaloei. £7 <o £7 10s; carrots Ifo lU's, £7 I'" r«J.nS'■ butter; l*«d; Canterbury flour. £ll l (l 'i New Zealand cheese, ifu ...d a larco awirtment of sundries at fair I ' i '^ ; „DanS\Vave. An excellent .assort?'r.r fruit trci'S fhrulis, &c., which were freely Uken - eu, " lr * t,mn r" 1 £,!ga favourable remit compared w.thprefioiu ml«i-