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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXV, Issue 7863, 19 May 1886, Page 4

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Lyttelton Times Office, Tuesday Evening. CUSTOMS EEYENUE. The following Customs revenue was collected yesterday Spirits, £2BO 9s Id; tobacco, £37 9s; wine, £2814s lldj beer, £2117s 6d ; ten, £7217a 8d; coffee, £9; sugar, £29 3a 4d; atj valorem, 12s; other duties, £6 7s 6d; total, £486115. EANGIOEA MAEKETS. There was an average entry of stock at the Enngiora market on May 17, and the attendance of buyers was satisfactory. Messrs Matson, Buss and Co. give the prices as follows: —Pat sheep, 6s to 9s; merino ewes, 3s to 3s 6d; boilers, Is; old cross-bred ewes, 2s to 4s; lambs, Is to Ss 6d; fat cattle, £5- to £7; two-year-old steers, £3 10s to £3; three-year-old steers, £3loa to £5 ; milch cows, £3 to £6; yearlings, £lto £1 ss; calves, 10s to 15s; fat pigs, £lloa to £ll7s 6d; porkers, 15s to 18s; stores, 2s to 10s. In the produce yams the prices were Merino skins, 6dto Is; cross-bred do. Is to 2a ; pelts, 2d to Is; hides, 2)d to 3Jd per lb; calves’ skins, Is to 4s; fat, id to Id per lb; fowls. Is to 2s 9d per pair; onions, Id per lb; wheat, seconds 2s 6d to 2s lOd per bushel; oats, 2s to 2s Id; barley, 2s 4d to 2s sd; beans, 2s lid to 3s; grey peas, 3s 3d; grass seed, 3s 9d; potatoes, 4s to 5a 6d per sack; cheese, did per lb; barley meal, 9s per sack; timber, 5s to 6s 6d per 100 ft. A few lines of grain changed hands during the’ day at very much improved prices, 3s 3d to 3s 4d, and in one case 3s 44d per bush"! being given for white Tuscan, Oats ■ were also Id per bushel higher. Potatoes were i quiet at £2 per ton, and pork was being bought by the dealers.at last week’s prices, I The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile i Agency Company, Limited, report as follows : < At the Ashburton County Saleyards on Tuesday, I

May 18, only some 600 elieep and a few piga and cattle were yarded* The attendance was small, ana little interest was taken in the sale* Pat orofls»breds realised 6s 6d; aged merino ewes* la ; forward mixed two-tooth cross-breda, 6a 9d» Transactions in cattle and pigs were quite nominal, and values were unchanged, 1 1 I