Customs Reyenne.

Otago Witness, Issue 1639, 21 April 1883, Page 14

Customs Reyenne.

The following revenue was received at the Custom house, Ounedin, during tha wwok. ending Wedneadtu last :— ' £ a. d Thursday 1888 15 6 Priduv .. •• „ 13.2 10 0 Saturday .. .. . 413 17 10 Monday w. .. .. 13-ii 811 Tueßday .. .. - 800 IT 1 Wednesday 1633 2 11 Total .. .'. .. £7177 12 3 The grain market is without material change. Millers hang back from buying wheat in quantity, i anticii ation of values receding, aud only pu • chase small lots as required. i rime milling soils ar, 4s 212 1 to 4s 3d per bushel ; choice Tusca SQCunn/ 4s 4J per bushol. Oats are iv exc<B ivo supply, to onlj outlet at pre-ent boing for shipment. Short bright feed sell at is Od to Is lOd per bushel, and prime mil ling Is lid to 2s per bushel. The/o is a fair business pacing in cornsacka at 7i 3d to 78 6d per dozen for small parcels, and a shade less for a quantity.

The Taieri Advocato says that Mr Andrew Grieve ha* purchased Crookaton Farm, North Taieri, for £.ii 10s an acre. This is a long price, but .he land is tiuid io ha of very good quality. 'ihe annual meeting of shareholders in the Otag > Daily Tioiei and Wines Newbpapers Company (Limned) wts hold in the Garrison Hall yesterday at ter noon. A large number of shareholde s were prLSont, and the chaimmiiot dirt ctora (the Hon, W. H Ktynolus) preside J. The report and balance-sboet ivere taken as rrad, and on the motion of the Chairu.an, seconded by Mr T. H. Meeking, wero adapted. I'ho net profit on the year's oporati us was sh >wn by the balance-sheet to be £2244, and the directors recommended that this should be appropriated to the pay i.ont of a divide* d at 8 pur cent, for the > ear (inclusive of the interim dividend of 7 per oenc. per annum paid at 31st July) Th« election of directors in lieu of tho-o retiring was postponed until Friday next, t which date the meeting wai aw jo irneii.

Tno New Zealand Luan and Mercantile Agency Company (L mitcd) have received the following 'produce telegram from their L ndon efflce, dated rfth * pri : — Tallow market in firm. There is a good Ooutii.emai demand for lower and medium «o<ts. cine qualifies aro m,t m detna id. Best mutton is worth 45 ■> (id, and bust beef i'&* 6d por uwt. The full a^ricul ural statistics for 'the Provincial DUtrict of Cuiterbury are published. Ihe-e show cbac the gross yiel i of wheat amounts t) 6,359.792 bushels as against 5,017,fc83 busheln for the preceding 3 ear; but the Canterbury Time-* declares that tho total ace-go under wheat was greater than is described by the official statistic-", bu»in# its assertions on the reports of its special reporters, who, bavo been twice over the ground, our contemporary therefore sets down the grews yield at 6,660,438 bushels, find after deducting requirements for food supply and seed, estimates that there i& an exportable surplus of 5,226,286 bushels, o<- nearly 3,000,000 bushels more'thuu was available last year. The yield of o .ts for Canterbury is set down at 4,085,365 bushels, and of this quantity it is estimated that there will be a surplus for export of 'a little over 2,000,000 bushels, against 600,000 bushels last year, whtn the total yield amonnted to 4,086,366 bushels. Barley shown but a small increabc, the figures being for 18&3, 378,457 bushels, and for 1882, 347,075 bu'ht-la Theie his been a large falling, off in the amount of laud sown with barley, tne area under this crop last year being considerably smaller than that for any ye*r since 1878. The aveiage yields of the three cereald for the whole Fr vincial District are : wheat, 26$- bushels; oats, 29} bushels; barley, 26 bushels.

The Melbourne Argus of April 10th says : — " Flour is only selling in small quantities at up to £11. Wo hear, however, of a line of 100 tois having been offered at £10 ss, which is likely to be closed for. We h<>ar of no other transactions of any coimqueuce. Wheat is moving off readily in small parcels at 5s 4d. We hear of about 1(100 bags having been cleared off at this figure We are also advisud of a considerable parcel having been bought from St. James' at 6s ljdat Spencer street, the purchaser to tako the risk of the opening of tho railway, which, howovor, is only contracted to be opened in July next. In oats there ia not much doinir ; a few small parcels only have been cleared off, at up to 3s 2d for a' out feed. A good demand is maintained for bonded parcels, and we learn of the quittance of a lino of 1000 bags New Zi aland at 2s 6d. For barloy a good inquiry is reported, and further Bale* of malting are making at 6s 6d, while for Cape 3s lOdis obtained.", ' < Messvs Cawwell, White, and Co., of Invercargill, have sold (on behalf of Mr vT B Sutton) threo pedigreo Lincoln rams at 16 guineas each, and 60 pure flock rams at three guineas each, to tho Now Zealand Agricultural Company. Messrs Wilao , Tame, and Co., of Invercargill, report the Rule of Mr J hn M'Corrnack'a farm of 200 acrog, Oreti, partly improved, to Mr' John Chalmers, of Canterbury, for £100u cash. They have also dl-j-posid of 372 acres of Mr Johnston's land above t-trath-more for £Ul6, to a Canterb «ry farmer. Mr J. Everest held a large clearance sale yesterday at Palmerston, in the assigned estate of Little Bro „ butchers. The attendance at the sale was large and the bidding spirited. The fret hold property (a)aughteryard paddock containing 31 acres, and ihe former residence of Mr James Little) was passed in, the billding not r> aching the mo tgajre upon it. The other freeholds were disposed of at satisfactory figures. Tho Corporation leaae, on which aro erected the butcher's and another shop, to^etnei with the residence of Mr W. Little, realised the sum of £155 over and above the mortgage (£460) ; Messrs Benton and Sutherland V oing the purchasers • The other leiwe. hold properties were satisfactorily disposed of, whilst the household furniture and live stock realised high figures.