COMMERCIAL.
The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cleared to-day for consumption was L 1.338198 9d. Messrs J. F. Watson, Hunter Bros., and J. W. Gage received a telegram on Saturday from Reefton stating that the Welcome return was 3460z amalgam from 90 tons of stone, and the Keep-it-Dark Company's yield was the extraordinary return of 1,8560z of amalgam from 192 tons of stone. A later telegram stated that the return from the Keep-it-Dark Company's mine for the fortnight was 830oz retorted gold, and for the month 1,0230z; also, that a dividend of 3s per 20,000 th share had been declared. Messrs Dalgcty and Co. have roceived a telegram from Messrs Dalgety, Ducroz, and Co., dated London, May 27, informing'them that the frozen mutton ex Du'nedin had been landed in good condition, and was readily saleable at Cd per lb. A sale of damaged wheat from and on board the City of Terth took place through Messrs Wilkin and Co. About 360 sacks of slightlv-damaged grain, landed and in store, sold at 12s, 12s 6d, and 13 I per sack, in small lots. The wheat remaining on board, 3,000 sacks more or less, was bought by the captain of the vessel for LlO. This, of course, is all damaged, the underwriters having got out all that was sound.—' Timaru Herald.'
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Evening Star, Issue 5994, 29 May 1882, Page 3
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223COMMERCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 5994, 29 May 1882, Page 3
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