COMMERCIAL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7792, 24 February 1886, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Lyttelton Times Office, Tuesday Evening. CUSTOMS REVENUE. The following Customs revenue was collected yesterday Spirits, £192 10s lOd; cigars, £37 7s 6d; tobacco, £309 lls 6d; wine, £ls 6s lid; tea, £IX3 Os 4d; sugar, £29 3a 4d; ad valorem, £275 lls ; other duties, £7219s sd; total, £lolslos lOd, SANGIOEA MARKETS. Harvest being almost over in the district, there was a marked improvement in the attendance at Matson, Buss and Co.’s weekly market at Baugiora yesterday. The prices obtained were as follows : Eat sheep, 6s 6d to 7s 6d; hoggets, 4s 6d to 6s; culled cross-bred ewes, 2s 6d to 3s; 4-tooth crossbred ewes, 4s 6d to 4s 8d; merino ewes, 8d to 2s: lambs, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; fat cattle, £4 10s to £8; 2 and 3-year-old steers, £3 10s to £3 15s; 2-yenr-old steers, £2 10s to £3 ; yearlings, £1 to £1 ss; calves, 15s to 18s j milch cows, £4 to £7 5 pigs (stubblers), Ms to 17s; smaller sorts, 2s 6d to 8s; sows, 15s to -30 s. In the produce yards the prices were— Woolly sheepskins, 2s 6d to 3s 9d; cross-bred pelts, 8d to Is 6d; merino do, 8d to Is ; hides, 3|d per lb; calfskins, Is 6d to 2a 6d ; fat, ,d per lb; wool-locks, lid per lb; fowls, 2s 5d per pair; chickwheat, 2s 6d >to 2s 8d per bushel; barley, 2s 4d j grass seed, 4a j cocksfoot, 3fcd per lb; potatoes, td to -}d per lb; cheese (small loaf), 6Jd ; large do, s}d ; flour, 15s per bag; timber, 6s to 6s 9d per lOOft, A considerable amount of business was done in the grain market owing to prices having reached figures more satisfactory to farmers. Small parcels of wheat changed hands at 3a to 3s Id per bushel, and in one case 3s 2d was offered and refused. Oats were -quoted at 2s, and peas at 3s 3d to 3s sd, the latter price being given for hand-threshed lines. The wholesale prices for dairy produce were—Butter, 6d to 8d per lb ; eggs, lOd per dozen. Mr E, G. Stavelet (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited), reports on the Ashburton sale of yesterday :—About 1500 sheep were yarded, and small supplies of pigs and cattle came forward. The attendance was limited and the sale dull. Fat cross-bred ewes realised 6s 3d; mixed sexes, 7s; fat 2-tooth cross-breds, 6s; poor, aged merino ews, 7d; cull merino wethers, 9d and lOd; fair 2-tooth cross-breds, 4s 9d; medium store pigs. 12s 3d. There was little demand for cattle. Fat cows fetched £4 ss; forward bullocks, £sto£slos. Small sorts were dull of sale.