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Lyttelton Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 4618, 2 December 1875, Page 2

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Lyttelton Times Office, Wednesaday Evening. The Customs’ revenue collected yesterday amounted to £341165. The following were the items ; Spirits, 1414 gallons, £B6 2s 6d; wine, sample. Is 6d; sugar, 27,9171b5, £ll6 6s Sd; boots, 14 trunks, £1619s 7d; drapery, 4 cases, £l4 4s; fancy goods, 33 packages, £107125; sundries, 10s, Amount of Customs’ duties collected at the Port of Lyttelton for the month of November

Messrs H. Matson and Co. report on the Live Stock Market, &c., for the week ending Saturday, Nov. 27, as follows:—At Addington, on Wednesday, 387 head of cattle and 4490 sheep and lambs came forward. There was an average attendance of purchasers present. Fat stock sold at about late rates. The demand for all classes of store stock was very brisk. Young cattle sold at extreme values, as also did store sheep when com. pared with the prices realised for fat stock. In cattle, our sales comprised 284 head for Sir Cracroft Wilson, Messrs John Ferguson, Davis, Keith, F. Lane, Lenney, Stanton, Simpson, Burns, Dayley, Wood, Sharp, Dickinson, Peat and Duncan. At for fat cattle, £8 10s, £9 15s, and £10; store steers, £5 10s to £7 per head; young stock, in large lines, from £4 5s to £6 per head; calves, from £2 7s 6d to £3 12s 6d per head. In sheep our sales comprised 3193, for Messrs ’John Deans, Metcalf, .Revoll, Hendley, J. Hnrse, Sharp, Dillon, Henderson, Heywood and Bowron, D, O’Callaghan, Kimber, as follows:—332 shorn merino wethers, for Sir John Deans, at Bs, 8s 3d, and 8s 6d per head; 152 do cross-breds, at 8s 9d; 77 do, at 7s 6d; 197 do, 7s 6d, lor Mr James Hurse; 90 do, at 11s 3d, for Mr Henderson; 139 do, at 8s and 8s 6d, for Mr D. O’Callaghan; 548 do, at 8s fid, for Mr H. Eevell: also 313 shorn merinos at 5a 3d to 6s per head, 91 do, at 7s fid, and 7s 9d; 108 merinos, at fie, for Messrs Heywood and Bowron; 247 hoggets at 13s 3d, 239 do at Us 9d, for Mr Metcalf; 307 merino ewes with lambs at 7s fid, 98 hoggets at 8s 3d, for Mr J L. Henley; fat lambs from 7s fid to Bs. There is a capital demand for really good limbs. On Thursday, at our Wool Stores, a good supply of sheepskins, hides and tallow. Best butchers* skins sold at 6a 2d to 6s lid each; lamb skins from lOd, Is to Is 5d each ; pelts, 2d to 5d each: salted hides, under 401ba, at sa; over 401hs, at 4|d; green,at3Jd; calf, at 7Jd ; rough fat, at 2Jd per lb. Country Stock Markets—We sold at Leeston Market, on Friday last, 50 head of cattle for Messrs B, Qillet, Anderson, M’Gregor, Mawson, Dixon, Moor and Wright at capital prices; also 70 shorn cross-breds, atlOsSd, for Mr M'Lachlan.

■ The following is the result of Messrs H. Matson and Co.’s wool sale held at their auction rooms on Nov. 30:—JR, 1 bale x-brdat 9sd; CB conjoined, merino, 1 at Bsd; P, 1 do at Bsd ; x-hrd, 3J do passed; heart, x-brd and hgts, psd; spade, x-brd, 3 lid, do ewes pfid, JM, merino, 1 psd; x-brd, 2 psd; 3 bags, psd, P over W, 1 merino psd; x-brd, 2 psd. EP, 3 x-brd psd; 1 fodge, x-brd psd. $, merino 1 psd. 7 under merino 2 at BJd. Wx, merino, 2 at Bsd; 3 x-brd psd, H, x-brd pad, D, 3x-brd psd; 3 do wethers psd; 1 do ewe psd; merino, 2 psd ; do and hgts 1 psd; locks, pieces, and fleeces, 1 at 3Jd; belly pcs, 1 at sd. AC x-brd hgts, 6 at9|d; merino, 1 at BJa. JI, x-hrd hgts, 2 at 6d, JB, conjoined, Lcstr pt bale at 9fd. JS, x-brd hgt 2 and a bag psd, IVT, x-brd 3 at 9Jd. FS, merino 4 at B’d. (hB, ram lambs 2atlOJd; x-brd wethers, 10 at 10|d; merino, 5 psd; belly pcs, 2 at fid; locks, 1 at 2d. JS underlined, x-brd 1 at 9Jd; merino, I at Bsd. AA, 1 mxd at Bjd. T in square, 1 merino at X in triangle, x-brd 2 at 9£d. S 3, x-brd, 4 at 9|d; 1 merino at BJd. JF, x-brd wethers, 6 and 1 fadge at 9£d; x-brd ewfes, 2 at 9R AD, x-brd. 2 psd. H, x-brd, 3 psd. W with loops, x-brd, 2 at lOd; do ewes, 5 at lOd; do hgts, 5 at lOd. LC, hgts, 14 at lOd; merino, hf-bale at B{d; x-brd ewes, BatlOd, Lover cross, x-brd, 4 at XOd. Lover cross and H, x-brd hgts, 4 at lOd. L over M, merino, 2 at 9d. L over P, pieces, pt-bale at 4Jd. II over —, x-brd, 4 at 9d, 08, x-brd, 14 psd. 8 over 0, merino, 3 psd. RGC, x-brd, 7 psd. JP, x-brd, 8 at 9Jd- J, 7 x-brd, 2 psd; x-brd and merino, 1 and 1 bag pad. The bags, &c,, fetched fair prices. Mblbouekb.—The Argus of Nov. 20 reports:— In the import market a fair amount of business has been done to-day. Country orders still come forward freely, and a very much improved trade demand is experienced in consequence. Breadstuifs show little change. Flour is moving off in small lots at £l3 ss, but no special inouiry exists. Wheat is quoted at fis 7d to 6s Bd, and good dry Northern would sell at our quotation, but there is not much offering. We hear, however, of a line of 2000 bushels having changed hands at fis Bd. In oats, a very depressed feeling is still perceptible; quotations range from 3s 4d to 3s 9d, according to quality, but we are without any fresh business to report. Maize is decidedly firmer; 4s lid was accepted in tho morning, but subsequently this figure was offered and refused for 500 bag parcels, and 5s is now generally required. A large business has been done by auction In sugars, but a decline of 15s per ton at least had to bo submitted to on brewing; fine whites, however, realised full rates. The cargo of Mauritius, per De Merest, comprising 6443 bags, was submitted to competition, and from the box the whole, except 500 bags, was disposed of; 30s 9d was realised for low grainy yellows, to 31s Odfor good; 80s 3d to 30s 9d was obtained for low yellow crystals, 81s 8d to 31s fid for good, 32s for fine; 31s for good, to 32s fid for flue brewing crystals; 31s 9d for good, and 32a 8d for fine grainy grey ; and 34s 9d to 35s for good whites. Low Bourbon rations were sold, all faults, at 21s to 225. Privately, sales of finest whites have been made at £34 10s to £35. Hops still attract attention. Some forty-six bales have been disposed of at from 1s lid to 2s. A Una of fifty boles has also changed hands to arrive, at 2s; the sample was very prime. Brewers' lots are moving at up to 2s 2Jd. Teas are going off to a fair extent; 609 packages have been quitted at la fid to la Bsd for medium to good medium congous. Galvanised iron is improving, and prices have advanced fully 20s, Fencing wire has risen into notice very suddenly, and since yesterday the market has been cleared of best brands to tbs extent of several hundred tons, and £2O is now required for No. 6, quotations all round having risen to £lB and £l9 for Nos. 6 and 7. A parcel of Calcutta comsaoks has been quitted at 8s 3d. Under the hammer, Xl3 packages tobacco were disposed of. Leaf brought 8d to lOd, and flat work was quitted at Is Id to Is 2Jd, while faulty sola at Is, 3d to Is 3td. The timber sales comprise 339,000 ft. Baltic white timber, which sow at from fis to lls 3d for 6 x J to 6 xlfc. Messrs Bastings Cnningham and Co. held their weekly sale of wool this afternoon, and submitted a catalogue contain* ing 2600 bales to competition. There was a full attendance of buyers in the saleroom, and competition was maintained with spirit, but a decline in value upon last week’s rates was observable, and quotations are scarcely so high as were last reported. The soles made by auction, and privately, amounted to over 2000 bales, greasy fetching from 8d to 13d, which price was realised for the clip from the Mount Battery estate; scoured, fromlfidto 18}d per Ih; and fleece, from 16|d to 2s 2d per lb for a lot in splendid condition, got up by Mr Colin Campbell, of Buafigor; and 2s 3d for a portion of the clip of Mr A, Wilson, of Mount Ema both clips coming from the Western district. The Argus of Nov. 18 reports . The usual wool sale was held at Messrs B. Goldsbrongh and Co.'s warehouses to‘day, and 3769 boles

were catalogued. There was a full attendance of buson, and superior clips commanded lato rates, but ether descriptions were scarcely so firm, the lato English advices have somewhat unsettled the market. In all, 3169 hales were sold, including private soles during the week and at Monday a auction. Greasy ranged from 8d to ISJd, the latter for a choice clip of 261 hales from Biyeriaa, Another superior clip of 697 bales, realised IJJds but both lots were exceptionally good. Washed fleece mnged from to 24d; tho latter for a clip from the Albury District. Adelaide. —Tho Adelaida Observer of Nov. 13 reports Although, on the whole, tho breadstuffs' market has been quiet during tho week, the high prices wo ohrouiolod in our last issue have still been maintained, no parcels having changed hands below 5s Bd, and 5s 9d has been obtained in some cases. Melbourne Argus telegrams report Nov. 15 There is more inquiry for wheat, which is quoted at 5a 7d to 5a Bd. Nov. 16—An emergency sale of wheat was made yesterday at 6s BJd afloat.. Nov. 18—Wheat is dull, and offering at 5s 6d. Nov. 19—Wheat is dull at 5s 6d. Mauritius.— Tho Melbourne Argus of Nov. 13 reports:—The Madame Domorest, just arrived, has brought a cargo from Mauritius, which we under, stand is to be offered publicly on Friday. By this opportunity advices have been received from Port Louis to Got. U, at which period Messrs Blyth Brothers and Co. write;—The inquiry for the Australian colonies has not been very active, but a fair business has been transacted, and prices have been well maintained for the qualities suited to those markets. Sugar making was going on rapidly, but the yield was not turning out so satisfactorily, as it was thought the estimated production of 100,000 tons would barely ho reached. White crystals were quoted at 6.75 dol to 7.35 dol; greyish Whites at 6.10 dol to 6.65 dol ; light to finest soft white counters at 6.65 dol to 7.35 dol; brewing crystals at 6.20 dol to 6.80 dol; yellows ranged at 5.75 dol for low, to 6.60 dol for finest yellow crystals. Rations were quoted at 4.50 dol to 5,50 dol. The Hannah Nicholson was chartered to load for Adelaide at 20s and 5 per cent.; the Lady Shelbome for Melbourne at 25s and 5 per cent,; the Hand Bell for Hobart Town, the Acaria for Launceston, and the John Kendall for Port Lyttelton. The Jnha H. was chartered to bring forward the balance of the Canada’s cargo. Exchange on London ruled at II per cent, premium for Bank hills. .

Spirits £ s. 3389 0 d. 6 Do (distilled in New Zealand) 201 10 2 Cigars and Snuff 87 5 0 Tobacco 1116 5 6 Wine 600 11 9 Ale and Beer (in bottle) 211 3 9 Tea 615 18 3 Coffee, Cocoa, Chicory, and Chocolate 128 3 3 Do (coasted) 1 3 4 Sugar, raw, refined, and Molasses ... 3215 12 4 Opium 0 2 6 Goods by weight 849 6 5 Ad valorem. 3132 1 10 Other duties not specified above 836 13 0 £11,755 0 7