COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 7247, 25 June 1887, Page 2

COMMERCIAL

T is amount of revenue odlleeted at the Custom-, house on goods clewed to-day for consumption was L 1,438 17e Id.

Ur John Ferguson, accountant of the Qolonlal Bosk at Palmerston, has been promoted to the manage, ment of one of the bank's branches on the West Coast.

The receipts of the Wellington Woollen Company were L 2,944 (or the year, and the expenditure L 2.910.

PROPERTY SALE.

A Press Association telegram from Wellington states that the third sale by auction of the laud o| the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Conuwny van held yesterday afternoon by Ifessrs T. Kennedy Mae-, donatd and Co., and proved, like the previous sales,a great success, Forty-nine agricultural and pastoral sections, containing 3,885 acres, were sold tor L 8.814, the highest price being 14 per acre and the lowest Ll, the average being 44s per acre. One hundred and torty-nloe sections in the Township of Shannon. oon\ tainlog 46} acres, were sold for L 2.216, or an average of L4B per acre. One quarter-acre realised at the rate ot L2BB pet acre. The total sale realised LXROSik The sale of the Township of Tokoiparu and otherlands is to be held to-day. Purchasers from, Canterbury, Relspn, Wairarapa, and Palhjerstou, North.

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Sydney. June 24.—Wheat is »t Sp Sd to 8s 8d; oats. Is Mto 2* 2d; mate-, Ss Sd j potatoes, 50s to 555. ' Adelaide, June 24—Yhe wheat market is consider rably depressed, and purchases are limited to pres-, sing requirements, Wheat is quoted at from Ss lid to 4s, but fanqprs are holding pack, being nnwilling to submit to a'reduction in prices. In flour then is, very little demand, and none whatever tor export. Town brands sre quoted at LOlQs to L 10; conntrs brands, L 8 to LBlos.‘