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Evening Star, Issue 10149, 30 October 1896, Page 3

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The amount of revenue collected at the Custombouse on poods cleared to-day for consumption was £1,028 18s Id. . The Customs and excise duties collected in tlie colonv during the quarter ended September .30 totalled £47t>,342, as compared with £435,05 l for the tame period last vear. A Wellington telegram states that Hour has advanced to £ll per tun. rROPEUTY SALES. Mr Neville Sievwriidit reports the sale of sections 2>>, block 1, and 73 aud 74 and part 75, block 6, North Harbor and district, containing forty-two acres, together with dwelling of rive rooms, occupied by Mr S. C.uvy, for i.'541, to Mr Harwood ; also quarter-acre section, with 5-roomed house, Pla\fair street. Caverebam, to u purchaser at a f»ir price.

MINING NOTES. A private cablegram receivedat Auckland states that the London share market exhibits a better tone. ,„ ... A London letter dated September 18, written bv a member of the London Stock Exchange to a gentleman in Auckland, says that recent events point conclusively that "New Zealand* were no worse than other stock. In consequence of the rise of the bank rates, the fall in Consols, and the disturbed political atmosphere there is' a thorough stagnation throughout the whole of the Stock Exchange, and until this departs we cannot hope for substantial business. E£ \u encouraging item of mining news emanates from Artowtown. A rabbiter, stooping down to take a drink out of a crook emptying into the Kawarau River opposite Gibbston, saw something glittering in the water which upon being picked up proved to lie a quartz specimen the size of a man's thumb containing 2oz of gold. As it is on the slope of the Crown Range, known to contain quartz reefs, there is every probability of rich lodes existing near where the specimen was picked up.