Commercial.
vThe Star Office, This Day. Business during the past week has not been so brisk as might have been expected at this season of the year, and has been principally confined to supplying station orders. Part of the Rio's cargo of sugars, from Mauritius via Port Chalmers, and imported hy Mr C. W. Turner, will be offered at auction on Dec. 8, at Mr Turner's stores. The market is but barely supplied, and the shipment ought to find a ready sale at remunerative prices. The Martha, from Frederickstadt, brought a cargo of Baltic timber, wliich will be sent on to Dunedin. Wool is now coming to hand more freely. The Light Brigade has rather more than 1000 bales stowed, and, also, a quantity of flax. She is expected to sail about Christmas. This season's clip of wool will be one of the best, as regards auality, that has been shorn for some years past. " We do not look for any considerable increase in quantity. We hear of no transactions in grain. The crops everywhere promise exceedingly well, and the weather has been very favourable.
Oats could be bought at 2s 3d- -wheat, 53 6d; barley, 5s 6d (good malting samples).
Th« Customs rerenue collected at Christckurch to-day amounted to £309 17s 2d. The following -were the items: — Spirits, 36 jj galls, £22 2s lid; drapery, 41 cases 2 bales £227 15s lOd hats (untrimmed) 9 cases, £2£ 16s; blankets, 3 cases, £10 3s; Scotch twillec shirts, 1 case, £3 12s 6d; cotton counterpanes 1 case, £2 2 3d ; unbleached Forf ar, part 1 case, £1 lls 3d; scrim, part 1 case, 10s scl: drugs, 11 cases, £12 lls 9d; brushware, par I 1 case, 9s lOd; scented soap, 1 case, 12s Id: cod liver oil, 1 case, 16s 6d; salad oil, 1 case ss; tartaric acid, 1 case, 7s; stationery, ] case, £1 Os lOd; other receipts, 7s 6d; merchant shipping fees, Is. The Customs rerenue collected at Lyttelton to-day amounted to £97 7s 7d. The following were tha items : — Spirits, £37 19s 7d; wine, £4; tobacco, £36 12s 6d; woollens 15s 8d; light dues, £l7s 19s lOd.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 171, 28 November 1868, Page 2
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358Commercial. Star (Christchurch), Issue 171, 28 November 1868, Page 2
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