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Evening Star, Issue 10408, 1 September 1897, Page 3

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The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption to-day was £1,436 Is 6d. New Plymouth, September I.—The Takapuna took 3(i(i boxes of butter and 228 cases cheese from the local freezing works for transhipment to the Tongariro for London. Supplies are now increasing fast. MINING NOTES. Dredging returns: Eltrick, 21oz for the week • Roxburgh, J3oz for three days. The Pleasant Valley Company, at Roxburgh, obtained 240z for fifty-four hours’ sluicing. The new company to be formed in connection with the present Clyde Dredging Company is to be named the Matau Dredging Company, The dredge has won gold to the value of £10,150 since the first yield was obtained in November last, [Bv Telegraph.] Sydney September 1.-Wheat; Chick, 3s 3d to U mthing, 4s 4d to 4s sd. Flour; Californian. £lO 10s ; Canadian, £l2 5s to £l2 10s; local. £l2. Oats: Heavy New Zealand feeding, 2s sd; medium 2s 3d to 2s 4d. Maize (prime), 2s 2d. Barley: Cai 3s 2d. Bran and pollard, 8d Peas: Prussian blue, ss. Potatoes; New Zealand, £3 2s 6d; Tasmanion, £4. Onions: Victorian. £10; New Zealand (prime), £l3. Butter: Dairy 8d to 9d; factory, lOd to lid. Cheese: New Zealand, 4d to 4id; loaf, 4Ad to 6d. Bacon, 5d to 6id. Melbourne, September 1. Wheat (firm), 5s lOd. Oats: Stout milling, 2s l§d. Maize, 2s 4d to 2s od. Barley: Feeding. 2s 9d to 2s lOd • racing 4». Bran, 9Jd. Pollard. lOd. Potatoes,’ -2 7s 6d to £2 15s. Onions (very firm), £9 10s. Butter exportation will be resumed towards the end of September. The season has been very favorable, and it is likely that all previous export records will be broken. Adelaide, September 1.-Wheat (active), 5s 6d.