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Evening Star, Issue 7354, 28 October 1887, Page 3

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The amount of revenue colleotcd at the Customhouse on goods oleared to-day !or consumption was L9oS2ssd. , 3 _,. ... _, The K-tiapoi Woollen Company have paid a dividend tot the halt-year at the rate of 0 per cent, per annum, and carried forward L2B. The Porpftual Trustees fold by auction to-day the property at Dalkeith (or the bum of L 235, the purchaser being Mr Thomas Oliver. [Bt TAUMBAPri.t Adelaide, October 27.—The Messageries Marithrtes 88. Caledonien, froni Marseilles, brings Mauritius advices to October 13. Messrs Ireland, Fraser, and Co. report:—The demand forsugar continues dull, and irj consequence stocks are accumulating The weather is favorable, but the crop pf cane Is backward. The Kcllona, loading for New Zealand, takes 250 tons for Duncdin and 240 for Lyttelton. Freights for New Zealand are quoted at 27a 6d; exchange on New. Zealand, sixty days' bank credits, 33J per cent. The stock of sugar on hand is 10,280 tons. Mblbocrnb, October 28.—The New Zealand Lean Mercantile Agency Company held their weekly wool Bale yesterday, when 2,800 bales were submitted There was a full attendance of buyers, and competition was more spirited than last week, but no material change in prices took place.. Greasy realised IOJd per b. Scoured and washed fleece wero poorly rcpreentcd.