COMMERCIAL

Evening Star, Issue 7495, 13 April 1888, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

The amount of revonue colleoted at the Custorahou«e on poods cloarcd to-day lor consumption mi 11 320 198 stf. The wreckage and K<* r of the May Queen were sold at Chrintchurch to-day and realised LB6. Tho following figures are given by the Boutnlann Times' ai the tonnage of Southland cheese sent Home by tho Kimutaka:-Edendalc fadorv, 26 Ions; Wyndham factory, 10 tons; Woodlands factory, 10 tons; Aparima faotory, 7 tons; Fairfax factory, 7 tons Waianiwa factory, 7 tons; Mr Satclby, koriyn Bush, 6 tons; Wvatt Bros , Otnwa Bridgo, 3 tor.s. The estimated value of the abovo shipment is about At a'recent meeting of the Gore Farmers'Clun. Mr J O Ward, M.H.R., was aoked to explain, if no chum. why thore was so much difference in the pricss paid for oats at the different ports of the colony. It was nointed out that that weok the figure was Is'6*at Invercargill, Is 9d at Dunodm, and la 7d at Lyttolton. Mr Ward said the difference was caused thus : Dunedin was a larje centre, and in such places there was a largo looal consumption ; and it was the prioo pud locally that waß quotod in the papers, not tho export price Merchants naturally gave their highest quotaHon". Then, Dunedin had better freight rates ; they got the grain carried more cheaply. His experience was not that of Mr Chisholm. He had bought r.a s cheaper in Dunedin than in Invercargill. m '"' candid with them, the Canterbury oats always brought 2d per bushel more in Australia. The merch.«■' * I therefore gave lid per bushel more for them. Ho I mw M per bushel more given for them in Sydney.

PROPERT i SALES.

'i'Y; Perpetual Trustee?, Estate, and Agoncy Coninany tcpoit tbc.sale by auction, on b«halfof the mortgagee, of section 160. Port Ch&lmCf*, for the Euiri.of LIU. Tho ptnshaacr was o>p:'».u James Mi-rf'r'ini. . T. ' iui>-"i- :Oaf> report the aa'o. pt.Vitely; pf trie follo.»i. k r >'"-' ' •ii-Part of 3 ction 40, blocK 19, Dunedin, v.Uh si:, roomed cottage, at a satisfactory price; sectional, i, 3, 4, and S. I'lock 1, Andersons Extension of Roslyn, containing about half an acre, for L2OO MI3ING NOTE*. The report upon specimens oi tho Biip(;oseri tin »'" fiv.m Alford Forest, which were sent to San Francisco to he assayed, has been received. Tho testa were nude by Mr Thomas Price, a well-known analytical chemist and assayer of metals, who repO' ts as follows: —" Two samples of ore. No. I—gold, ounces per ton, 5 lOOths ; value per ton, 1 OSdol. Silver, ounces per ton, 46-lootha ;' value per ton, 68 cents. Total value per ton, l.Oldol. No. ;1 specimen—a tec; of gold and a tr>d of bilvcr. N->. 1 epecimen containssilica, iron, lime, ruagncbia, and eirbonic acid. Contains no tin. No 2 specimen contains silica, iron, and a little lime and magnesia. Contains no tin. The principal ingredient of both samples is nnoky quartz." The presence of gold and silver i:i the specimens may go far to on>snlc tho prospectors for the absence of tin. —' I.yttclton Times.'