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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXI, Issue 7246, 21 May 1884, Page 4

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l/yttelton Tima Office, Tuesday Evening. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The following was the Customs revenue collected yesterday:—Spirits, £228 3s ; wine, £11; beer, £l4 8s; cigars, £36 as 8d; tobacco, £7513a 9d ; tea, £53 6s 8d; sugar, £lßl Is 9d; goods by weight, £63 (hi 5d ; ad valorem, £355 10s; other duties, £2 11s; total, £IO2O 0s 3d. ASHBURTON LIVE STOCK MARKET, Mr E. G. Stavelbt (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited) reports on the Ashburton Live Stock Market, under date May 20 :—Sheep—Only a moderate number came forward, and there was a paucity of buyers, which, considering the inclement state of. the weather, is not to be wondered at. Very little enquiry was manifested, and business was limited at our quotations. Fat cross-bred ewes, 12s; merino wethers, 7s 3d; ewes, 4s 3d.; cross-bred lambs, 6s XOd, 8s 2d, audßsßd; aged merino ewes. Is 8d to 3s 3d; store cross-bred wethers, 12s 10d. Pigs Slips made 12s Cd. Cattle —Very few to hand, and for stores little or no demaud existed. Fat cows and heifers brought from £4 to £0; forward bullocks, £5 10s ; cows in milk, £5 each. Young stock were almost unsaleable. BILLS OP SALE AND OXHEE INSTRUMENTS RILED DM DEE THE CHATTELS SECURITIES ACT. 4639 Hoare. Henry, of 9, St James’ square, London, banker, mortgage over 22,000 sheep depasturing on Eaincliff station to the New Zealand Trust and Loan Company (Limited) for £59,000; dated April 30,1884; filed May 20, 1884. 46-10 Hepwortb, George, of Yaldhurst, farmer, conditional bill of sale and mortgage of stock over live and dead stock on his farm at Yaldhurst to tlie National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, for £250 and further advances; dated May 2, 1884; filed May 20,1884. 4611—Bevins, Thomas, of Kaituna, sheep farmer, mortgage of stock over 1000 ewes on his form at Kaituna to the New Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, Limited, for £l5O ; dated May 16,1884; filed May 20,1884. 4142—Bevins, Thomas, of Kaituna, sheep farmer, wool security over clip of 1000 ewes on his farm at Kaituna to the New Zealand Grain Agency and Mercantile Company, Limited, for £150; dated May 15,1681; filed May 20,1884. AFFIDAVITS OP SATISFACTION Of mortgage of stock No. 1667; filed Feb. 14, 1882, over sheep on Bsinclifl Station for £50,000 Henry Hoare, of London, hanker, to the Union Bank of Australia, Limited; satisfaction filed May 20,1881. Of bill of sale No 2577; filed Nov. 4,1879, over live and dead stock on bis farm at Kaitnnar-George Hepwortb, of Kaituna, farmer, to George King, of Christchurch, merchant; satisfaction filed May 20,188 k Of mortgage of stock No. 1270; dated Oct. 25, 1879, over live and dead stock on his farm at