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Evening Star, Issue 6571, 9 April 1884, Page 3

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The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on weds cleared to-day lot consumption wm 10,890 o»6d MINING NOTES. Mr James F. Hcaley reports:-" The Tipperary Company aro continuously crushing and the stone toffiwefr. It is likely there will be two more cakes Wore the end of the season—The Ladye Fayre ComShave ananged with Mr W. T Smith who!has Used the public battery, to crush this seasons 8S? theref and some forty tons have already beerf' carted to iho machine. Crushing wUI most likely commence in a few days. The K*P* Dark started crushing last week ai the> Honeward Bound battery, and have already put a quango through.-Ihe Mountain Maid Company have let a contract to Mr Robert Hood to sledge down their Stone to the' new paddock on the road dose to Sawyers. The prospects in the reef are excellent both In stone and rubble. Crushing will start as soon as the •Dark' have finished.—The Premier Company will have sufficient stone to keep the Maryborough batjtery going for a long time. Water has become short for the past week, but as rain is now falling the gupply is again likely to be plentiful.—The New All Nations Company are getting out very- fair stone from the big reef, and it is likely that another crushing wjU take place at the public battery, owing to the latefi&a of the option before getting their owp machine tire'ttejl- 'JlaXis novw being : aotiyolv proceeded with, Wit water Will pe short by thptime it U Bet w~. This pjfne is 6pb>eri well of by all who have visited it, and it will no doubt give satisfactory results as soon as everything is in thorough working order.—The Garibaldi Company are also preparing for another crushing, and the prospects continue encouraging.— The Bachelors Company are getting out stone, and it is probable they will orush all they have at grass before the end of the seasop.—Thus it is likely that nine more cakel will be sent down from the Maeetown fteni before winder; and although affairs did not look promising at the commencement of the season, there to weryiflhanoe etlhelr winding up successfully at its close." -

STOCK AND STATION REPORT. Mr Donald Stronach (on behalf of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Atfonoy Company, Limited) reports for the week ended April 9 as follows : Store Sheep. -The demand is lees aotlve for all sorts except for merino ewes, for which there are still buyers in the market. Our only transaetion during the last week waa a sale of 1,000 cross-bred ewes. Wool.—Cablegrams to hand advise the next series of London sales to commence on the 29th inst., and is looked forward to with great interest, as a large quantity of Otago wools will then be offered. Locally there is nothing to report. Sheepskins.—We offered a large catalogue at our weekly auction on Monday. The attendance was good. Biddings were spirited, and prices for green tkins showed some advance on those of last week. Dry cross-breds brought 2s 3d to 3s 8d ; do merino, 2s to 3s 9d; do pelts, 2d to 6d; green pelts (cross-bred), Is 8d to 2s; do do merino, Is 7d to Is lOd ; lambskins, ls6dtols9d. Rabbit-skins.-Owing to the limited supply coming forward, there is but little business being done. The demand, however, is good, and there are buyers n the market for all consigned for sale at-for suckers, ljd to 6d ; mixed, medium, and summer skins, 8a to Is 3d per lb. „ , , , , Hides.-All coming to hand are easily placed, but late quotations unaltered. ... • » , Tallow continues in good request at-for inferior and mixed, 17s 6d to 255; medium to good, 27s 6d to 82s 6d ; prime, 83s 6d ; and rough fat, 20s to 2os per Grain —Wheat: Arrivals to this market are as yet on a limited scale and transactions very restricted, as growers appear in the meantime indisposed to sell at quotations. Millers are also so far supplied, and unless choice samples in first-class milling condition are submitted, offers for any other are scarcely procurable. We find a good many samples on the soft side, and any such being bagged and piled up will most surely become unfit for milling in a very short time. We quote prime milling, 3s 9d to 3s lid; medium, 8s 3d to 3s 8d ; fowls' wheat, 2s to 3s (bags included).—Oats: There is a fair demand both for export and local requirements, and all coming forward find a ready market, but without any advance on last week's quotations, which remain as follows : Stout bright milling, 2sld to 2s 2d; short bright feed, Is lid to as Id ; medium and long, Is 8d to 18 lOd, bags included.—Barley: Maltsters are now beginning to feel the market, and prime malting samples would command from 4s to 4s 3d; but growers' ideas of value being beyond this, in the meantime there is but little business being done. Rye-grass seed continues without much demand.