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Evening Star, Issue 7412, 6 January 1888, Page 3

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The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cloarcd to-day for consumption was 1,1.39:2 2s 31.

The New Zealtnd Loan and Mercantile Agorcy Company have received a c.blegfam from their Lindnn office, stating that the directors riCrmmeud a riividind and bonus crpal to 15 per cent, as in previous ,\cars, evrving forward L1f>,053; the amount brought forward from previous years being L 3.026 The above figures do no; include profit on the Melbou ne sale of projorty recently repotted.

A cibleeiam received from the held office of the lv|ui:aV'le Life Aisuranee Society tf New York gives the amount of new business done- for the year 18S7 at L2B 730 000 etc ling, an increase in new assurance of over LB o.' 0,000 sterling. Mr K. B Ferguson, of Waitati, has 1 ft for Sydney per Wakatipu, taking with him another Urge consignnrntof cattle fiom his well-known Ayrshire herd. The shipment comprised four priz? bulls, and twenty head of Ayrshire cows in full milk, which class, he says, always commands good prices ia the Sydney markets. PROPERTY SALE. Mr G S. Brodeitek tffered for sale tc-day : S:cibn "1, Waki r', t n I part of section 58, lilt ck 5, Dunetii'i and E.st Taiori district, confc- ining 22 acres 2 poles; together with the family re idciice. Tho pr?perly was l-oUL'lit in by the mortgagee for H.2CO.