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Lyttelton Times, Volume LII, Issue 5826, 28 October 1879, Page 4

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Lyttelton Times Office, Monday Evening. CUSTOMS’ REVENUE. The following was the Customs’ revenue collected on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 mid 25 Friday, Oct. 21. £ s. d. Wines 61 2 0 Spirits 77 3 2 Tea ... 40 3 4 Sugar. 110 19 9 Tobacco 22 2 6 Cigars ... 11 5 0 floods by weight ... ... ... 23 13 7 Adeotorom ... 24 18 0 Other duties ... 12 0 6 Total ... £llß 7 4 Saturday, Oct. 25. £ B. d. Wines ». 11 6 8 Spirits 151 4 1 Sugar 25 8 4 , Tobacco 81 7 6 Goods by weight ... 18 12 8 > Ad valorem ... ' 9 2 0 Total ... £248 1 1 MNDSALE3. '* At the sitting of the Waste Lands Board to-day, -» the following amounts were sold, realising £833 b ti l3s3d:— a. B, p. ! : Ashley 37 0 0 Ashburton ... ... ... ... 290 0 0 o>; Selwyn ... ... 89 013 f.’ t Geraldine 0 8 0’ BlU ' Total 416 8 13 ■,-j ... Mr T. Preece reports a large attendance at his u , yards, Lichfield street, on Saturday last, and a good supply of cattle, pigs, poultry, Ac., which realised ■ -ii upon the whole excellent prices. Cattle, 35 head <?;. ji9s«ted-01dcows, £2losto £3lss; springers.poor .*, ,In and inferior breed, £llos to £8 j well-bred ‘ cows, 3or 4 years old, springing or in profit, are '’ ■* worth £9 to £lO. Pigs—loß yarded, which fetched »".«srisMne prices, viz.: 7 good sized porkers, 60s each j , ~.,J medium do. 40s each: small do, 30s each; stores, .''Mi to3os each; small do, 18s to 25s each; suckers, j 3 **M» ttrtSs each. A large quantity of poultry penned, ■4. Vi that the supply not equal to the demand. Cock turkeys, 9a to 10s each; geese, 10* to 12s per pair,; ducks, 6s to 6s 6d per pair; fowls, fit for the table, i 4a.Bd.tOnss per pair; interior sorts, 3s to 4s per pair. , < x Spring carts, second hand, £l2 to £lB each. The n .timber offered sold readily at fair values. u ’ ' Ur 7. ti. Wilson’s grain and produce report for JiitiiipMt fortnight Wheat is wanted for local consupply is very short, and those who ~.r Arepoldingare running a certain amount of risk ■b ” -now. The market is open at 6s, which is quite as -ifuij.initcWas the flour market will warrant the millers i 3 imgiriusiiSh Adelaide flour can belaid down at snoh . ■ (Jtfiguraas.will not allow the price to rlis. Oats aro BtlU plentiful, and prices remain the same, 2s 3d ti OJ Mrley is Just about done, both in supply v .v Bodidemahd; Little lots for seed at from 4b to as hands. Potatoes are the most it in the produce market. All outside v'lmuTOlr are bare, and so is ours. There are Just a 9 tu» left fsomr Seeding, The price has rsaohed £5 •3S !t Seed is going off freely at £3 10s .to JilOt according to quality. Part of alargelot ' ■vnuoßrcatim'w Hand, and has been selling at these 1 j&itiht firitiH*oi'hand. Bye grass is selling in email■ i to Botnet fewSsgdito 4s 6d, but the market has been • » wary limited far this gross this season, possibly 15i h 3 ?< on the the grower. t tr'iAi x si iODOMWNMAEKBTSI 1300':.' TIB NgW> Zealand Loan and Mercantile AganCy <£ m Motived the following telegram from their London office, under date Oct, 25 Wool.—The next sales will commence on Nov. > c m- sJ3p bales have arrived. The & t rf^f? r ? l '-B ,, A»6 eatl Z descriptions-.have’ There has been considerw ■£ prospects for the next •ales are improving. Home buyers are purchasing -- .... jlfielv- hnt Continental fjonmrifl ig limited. Trade in fhrsfliKttDtOlMriffg'aTfitricts is slightly better, i . ■ »Bi-I speculative demand, .j v IP wM JsliS. Public esles of Austro■f i Util^ave‘cqiß I MOO casks. The supplies of d. Itowh«ijiKidi *i» iightttiWutton is worth 89s, and ICi a , , „ . ■ is worth 695, sides fetched Id t ' prwstais' asget), others. unchanged. tosAhasajold since loot report.