COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 9162, 17 June 1893, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount ot revenue collected at the Customhouse on gooils cleared to-day for consumption was £l4l Is 2d.

Business in the import market has been quiet • luring the week, with values generally of leading lines unchanged. Messrs .1. and W. Gage report having sold to Mr l'etcr M'lntyre section 5, township of Cannington, containing lr 7p, the price obtained being satisfactory. Stamp duty has been paid on the following estates (finally citified) of deceased persons:— Richard Langman (Taranaki), £3,320 Is 3d ; John Buchanan (Napier), £11,587 3s -Id ; Frank Jellic'oe (Wellington), £8,537 6s 3d ; Peter Hume (Wellington). £32.441 Is Sd; George Bowron (Christchurch), £13,H85 19s 3d : William Robert Maddison (Christchureh), £13,711) Is 9d; William Dixon ((-hristchurch), £2,541 9s s<\ ; Joseph Bates (Christchurch), J£y, 120 (Nelson), £1(5,958 (s f.d ; John Simon (Dunedin), £I,RSB 12s 3d : William Stewart (Dunedin), £1,30(1; Man- Dewo (Dunedin). £1.124 Is sd: Alexander Steven (Dunedin), £2,211 lis 3d.— ' Mercantile and Bankruptcy Gazette.' I'ROPKRTY SALE. There was a crowded attendance at the rooms ot Messrs Park, Reynolds, and Co. to-day, when tlie subdivisions of sections 49, 50, and 51, block 25. Dunedin, was offered for sale. The property is situated on the corner of Georgo and Park streets, in a very good residence locality, and we were therefore not surprised at the eager competition over each lot: Tho seven allotments submitted were all sold at the following prices:Lot 1, £130; lot 2, £120; lot 3, £122 10s; lot 4; £l3O ; lot 5, £132 10s ; lot ti, £227 10s, with house ; lot 7, with house and |l rood 1(5 (5 poles land, after very spirited competition, £760. MINING NOTES. Our Reef ton correspondent to-diiy .sunt the following battery returns : Alpine, o2ooz of amalgam from 395 tons; Globe, ltiOoz of amalgam from 190 tons; Progress, 31 loz of amalgam from 200 tons; Specimen Hill (a trial crushing). 350z 15dwt of gold from 27 tons.