Messrs. Jones and Co. liacl au extensive drapery sale yesterday. Pilot blue jackets, 19s. 6d. to 22_s, Oil. ; tweed sac coats, 15s. 6 1. ; blue serge shirts, 60s. per doz ; Crimean shirts, 6H per doz. ; cloth mantles, 12s. to 325. 6d. ; pea jackets, 15s to 18*.; plaid bhawls and scarfs, ss. tolls.; legatta shirts, 275. to 295. ; Dutch carpeting, 8X to 9.£ d. ; flannel, lOd. to Is. Id. ; white moleskin trowsers, 6i 3d. ; trimmed felt hats, 2s. to 3s. 3d. Messrs. Hidings and Dowden's sale of holloware ■was well attended, and prices realised satisfactory. The customs' receipts for the last month amounted to £7,683 2i. 4d., being au increase on the previous month of £430 10s. 6d., and on the corresponding one of last year (1862) of £859 109. lid. Amount of receipts between Apiil 27 and 30, £1,198 16s. 6d., of which for gold duty, £167 2s. 6d.
CHRISTCHURCH LIVE STOCK MARKET April 22nd.
