Commercial.
« The Star Office, This Day. The land sales to-day amounted to 430 acres, as follows:— Lincoln district, 100 acres; Mandeville do, 230; Banks Peninsula, 100— realising £860.
The following are the 'exports from . Kaiapoi for the month ending July 30 : — 22,684 bushels wheat, 18,359 do oats, 6690 do barley, 232 bushels beans, 20 tons flour, 8J do bran, 143} do potatoes, 4 do cheese, l^do ham 3 and bacon, 2 do carrots, 1£ do .onions, 4 _ do sharps, 7do oatmeal, 46 J do tallow, 15 bales chaff, 25 do wool, 136 do flax, 109 kegs butter, 160 bushels peas, 5 • casks eggs. The registered tonnage of vessels inwards during the month was 1535 tona.
The following is the Customs revenue collected at Christchurch and Lyttelton for the mouth ending July 30 :—
. The amount collected during the same period for pilotage was, £266 9s 3d; and for , watermen's licenses, JES2 lOs.
£ s. d. Duties 6945 5 4 Light dues 74 14 Merchant shipping fees ... 9 5 3 Arms fees 5 19 0 Distillation Act ... 3 0 0 Pilotage exemption fees ... 11 11 o Other receipts ... ... 16 4 0 Gold duty 15 16 8 Total ... ...£7OBI 2 7
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 683, 1 August 1870, Page 2
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197Commercial. Star (Christchurch), Issue 683, 1 August 1870, Page 2
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