Lyttelton Times Office, Thursday Evening. The Customs revenne collected at Christ church and Lyttelton to-day amounted to £251 8a 6d. The following were the items: —Wine, 86J gals, £l7 6s 6d; spirits, 186 f gals, £ll2 3s 4d; stout (bottled), 152 gals, £9 10s; tea, 805 lbs, £2O 2s 6d; sugar, 8465 lbs, £35 5s sd; drugs, 6 casks, £6 12s 9d; furniture, 1 case, 6s 2d; drapery, 1 case, 7s 6d; candied peel, 112 lbs, £1 8s; hops, 350 lbs, £1 9s 2d; salad oil, 6 cases, £1 17s 6d; currants, 727 lbs, £3 Os 7d; sultanas, 186 lbs, 15s 6d; light dues, £1 10s Id; other receipts, £2 2s. The land sales to-day amounted to 199 acres, as follows :—Upper Christchurch, 25 acres ; Banks’ Peninsula, 170 ; Malvern, 4 ; realising £398. The Committee of the Canterbury Cham ber of Commerce held their usual monthly meeting at the rooms, High street, this day, at three p.m. Present: Messrs H. H. Hennah (chairman) Palmer, Dymock, Hassal, Fletcher, Lane, Twentyman, and Coster. The minutes of last meeting were read and confirmed. The return of exports of colo nial produce to other provinces, to complete the committee’s yearly report, as also the report of the sub-committee appointed to examine and revise the scale of mercantile charges adopted by the Chamber on the 4th April, 1864, together with rates of wharfage, storage, and duties, was deferred to a future meeting. A letter was read from Mr Seed, Secretary and Inspector of Customs, dated 14th September last, covering copies of the Hawaiian Islands Customs tariff, port regula tions, statistics, &c., which were read, and the Secretary was instructed to acknowledge the same with thanks, and also to place the documents on the table of the Chamber for the use of the members. During the after noon, Mr Hassal introduced into the Chamber some preserved beef, prepared by Mr Manning, Illawarra, near Sydney, N.S.W. The meat was exhibited in four different ways, the raw meat in the tin, part of the same made up as a stew, part also stewed with potatoes, and lastly one large piece was cooked as beefsteak. Although it is two years since the meat was placed in the tin, the whole was perfectly sweet and well flavoured. The raw meat retained its gravy, and appeared as if just cut off from the beast. 