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Evening Star, Issue 7402, 23 December 1887, Page 2

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• The amount 1 of revonue ■ collected'aP house on goods cloarcd to-day for consumption wag L 028165" ■">!•■ ■■■■. ■ ;•!-, ::.:,;/;«••: \ The' Gazette' notifies tho alteration of the sole of charges on the Hurunui Bluff seotion of the New Zealand railways a* follows:—Wool, uridumpod, from Dunbaok.to Dunedin or Poit Chalmers will be charged 4d per bale less than tbt claßJifiod ratos. LONDON RABBIT-SKIN SALES. \ Messrs Remshardt, M'Donald, and Co. aro in receipt of the following cablegram from their London brokers,dated 22ndinst.:—"Large catalogues wore submitted at to-day's auction. Prices arei unaltored as compared with last sales." By Thjwraph.) Adslaidk, Dcoembor 22.—Tho "Messageries Marl- r limes Salazlo. from Marseilles via Mauritius. She brings Mauritius advices to December 8, under which dato Messrs Ireland, Frasor, and Co. report 14s followsn-The Woathor has;been.favorable, Apt the season's crop will not exceed 95,000 tons. The market is active. 'The engagements during the month include 260 tons for Ohrlstohurch. Tho clearances 'include 400 tons for Gbrfstohurch, ,605 tons for DunoHip. Freights to Australia are 18s to 23s per ton; to Neiw Zealand, 263 to 27s ; exohange on New Zealand, sixty days' bank credits, sßi per cent, The stock ,of mugir to hand is 38,000 tons. The export* tbls season to New Zealand up to dato amount to 2f72fl tons. j Melbodrnk. December 22.—At the weekly wool saje of the New Zealand Loan and Merorntile Agency Company, held to-dav, 3,600 bales were offered, the bulk of whioh was sold at satisfactory prices. Competition was animated and the market.very firm, prices'being fully equal to last wick's-rates.- Greasy merino realised lid per lb; lambs, lljd; oross-bredß, lOd ; washed, lajd ; sooured 16d. i