COMMERCIAL.
The amount of revenue collected at the Custom-house on goods cleared to-day for consumption was L1,60S 6s 6d. Mr Spring, the local agent of the Equitable Life Assuranco Society of the United State?, advises us that the head office telegraphs that the new assurances for the year 1890 were L40,000,0C0 sterling, and that tho assots are L 24.000.000. A correspondent who has been journejing through the Cromwell district gives a most doleful account of tho appearance) of llio country, more especially in the Blacks, Ida Valky, and Lauder districts, and. further on, St. Bathanß and Nftßoby way. lie says there is literally nothing growing, the drought and winds parching everything up after It was a few inches above the ground. Up above, however, in the valley of the Molyneux and Olutha, things are better, and a generally good all-round crop is expected.—'Arguß.'
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Evening Star, Issue 8405, 5 January 1891, Page 3
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143COMMERCIAL. Evening Star, Issue 8405, 5 January 1891, Page 3
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