COMMERCIAL.
Tbe amount oj revenue colleoted at the Customt>ou»e in gnnda cleared to-day for consumption wa> L1.09810s 2d. The Maßiototo Flour-Milling Company have declared a 10 per cent, dividend for the year. Tho ' North Otago Times' states that pohtoes were sold in Oamaru last week at L 3 16i per ton f o.b. Cropping (says tho • North Otaijo Times') is not in every e»Bc an unprofitable ocoupation. A person in the Oamaru district, who had rented 100 acres for a who t crop; retpod forty t usbels to the aero, and will have a clear surplus, after paying all expenses, of L2OO. This i 1) equal to about L 4 per week for a year. MINING NOTES. The returns of the ltaefton mines for the past week were :—Keep-it-Dark, 19Ioz of am-.lgam from 206 tons of stone; Weloom" 28lrzof amalgam from 80 tons. [BY TIttiMQRAFH^ Sydney, March 12:—Sew Zoaland wheat is at 3s 8d to 8s lid ; New Zealand oats are at 2s 'to 2s 3d ; maize is at 8s to 4s; Sugar Company's No. 1 pieces, L 25 108 per ton.
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Evening Star, Issue 7160, 14 March 1887, Page 3
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182COMMERCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 7160, 14 March 1887, Page 3
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