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Evening Star, Issue 11133, 8 January 1900, Page 2

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The amount of revenue collected at the Custombouse on goods cleared for consumption to-dav was X 1,930 19s Sd. • • The quantity of coal exported from Westpori last week was: Westport Coal Company, 2 373 tons. From Greymouth: Blackball, 1,147 tons • Brunner, 1,1591 tons. Wellington, January S.-The Agent-General cables: ' Butter, SBs; iu rood demand. Cheese (market thai), tills. SALE OF EAST COAST LANDS. \ An important land sale was held at Gisborne on Saturday by Messrs Williams and Kettle, on behalf of the trustee in Wi Pere's estate and other clients. About fiOO acres of the M;ikauri Block, including some of the richest of the Poverty Bay fiats, were sold at £24 to £25 and £26 per acre. Several fancy sections in the Waerengnhika township brought £315 10s, £4O, and £75 per acre. Twenty thousand acres of first-class pastoral land at Mangatu. twenty-five miles from Gisborne, subdivided into suitable areas of from 1,000 to 3,o(lo.acres, were offered on lease for twenty-one vcars, with an allowance for improvements and the right of renews], and sold at prices ranging from 8J to Is 2d p?r acre per annum. The sale is considered extremely satisfactory, showing a good demand for land in the district. THE SHARE MARKET. This morning's transactions on the Dunedin Stock Exchange were as follow:—Alpine Consols 17s ; Bendigo, 10s b"d, 10s yd, and Us; Boundary Creek, 4< tld, ss, 4s Od, ss, and 4s 9d; Cardroua No. 1, 6d: Dunstan Pioneer. 2s 9d and 2s; First Ch.ncH,»l4s; Fraser Flat, 3s 6d; Gentle Annie, 7s 3d. 7s, and 7s lid ; Gibbston, 9d ; Gold Deposit ls>9d, Is b'd, and 2s; Golden .Beach, 55s 6d; Golden Bed, 6s; Golden Gh&in, par ; Golden

Elbow, 3a; Hartley and Riley, £9 (ia, £9 Bs, and £9 10a; Kawarau Bridge, Is 3d ; Kelly and Casey, (is and fis 3d ; Klondyke, 30s (id; Leaning Rock, Is (id ; Alngnetic, (iSs (5d and lifla; Majestic, 7s; Alanuherikia, OTslid ; AlonteCristo, 10s ; Mo i Flat, 5s 8.1; Old Dunstau, 4s 3d ; Paul's Beach, Is 3d ; Roxburgh Juhilee. Ss; Royal Alaori, (is and 5s (id ; Sixteen-mile Beach, 4s 4d and 4sfc'd ; Vincent, IbV, Vincent Extended, 13s; Waikaka Forks, la; White Star, Is 6d. GRAIN AND PRODUCE REPORT. Donald Reid arid Co. report that prices ruled as under at their auction sale to-day : Oats.—We catalogued a fair selection of medium to good feed oats. All ottered met with good competition, and were cleared «t prices fully equal to lato quotations. We quote prime milling at 2s Id ; good to best feel, la lid to 2s; medium, Is lOd to Is lid per bushel (sicks extra). Wheat.—Jn milling quality there is not much business pissing buyers requirements being confined ,to choice bits of velvet and Tuscan for mixing purposes. We submitted several lines of fowl wheat and cleared same for whole wheat, 2s Id to 2* 2d; broken, etc., Is i)d to Is lid. We quote nrinie milling at £s s}d to 2a 6d ; medium, 2a 3d to 2a 5d per bushel (sacks in). Potatoes. -We offered a few lines of kidneys, for there was poor competition. We quote best at £3 to £3 10s per ton (sacks in). Chaff.—The market is bare of prime oaten sheaf, and we have strong inquiry for a quantity of this clas*. As showing the preference given to prime chaff a small lot of choice quality realised £i 5s per ton. while medium quality was almost unsaleable. Wequote: Brst o iten sheaf, £3 5s to £3 10a; good £2 loa to £3; inferior and medium, £2 to £2 10s per ton (bags cxtia). AIININ'G NOTES. The Otago report a return of soz 9dwt for four days' work. The Golden Run (pipas) report a return of 240z for the week ended January rj. The Golden Treasure report a return of 60oz 14dwt for four days' work. The Dunedin report a return of 18oz for four davs' work. The Success report a return of 16oz b'dwt for four days' work. The Chicago report a return of 13oz 7d\vt 3gr for three and a-half days' work. The Otago Stock Exchange have removed to Bank of New Zealand premises, top flat, where they have a large room, well light.d and handsomely furnished. The prospectus of the Horseshoe Bend Gold Dredging Company is published in this issue. The claim is situated immediately below Ihe entrance of the Shotover River, and is one of the group of Wakatipu claims up 'ii which the early type of dredge was placed in 18:10, with (as has been the invariable experience both on the Kawarau and Molyneux Rivers where small dredges have been at work) only disappointment and temporary failure. Reference is made lo the fact, in the prospectus, that up-to-date dredg s have paid handsomely on ground formerly abandoned by old-time dredges and dredge-masters, and the hops is given expression 'to that the Horseshoe will furnish one more object lesson in this same connection. The brokers are Thomas M'C'ack'Mi, Albert Evans, and H. S. Valentine for Dunedin, with Air E. Alurrell (Cromwell) and Mr C. E. Gudgeon (of Queenstown) as the local brokers. RffEFTON, January b\— The Progress mine's returns for Decemhsr are as follow: Battery, I.SSSoz gold from 3,234 tons ; and by chlorination, ISloz gold from (!5 tons. Total value. £0,117. The A'pine returns for December a-e 105oz gold from SSO tons. POST ©FFJC.'K MAU, XOTKTE. Mails cloEe at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin (subject to any necessary alterations), as under : Overland, North, daily, 10.30 a.m. Late letters, 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Books and newspapers, 10 a.m. Late-fee letters mu6t bear, in addition to the ordinary postage—ld for inland letters, 2d for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands, and 2id for all other Dlajea. Tuksdav, Januari 9. For Northern Ports.—Per Waihora, at 1.30 p.m. Late letters, Port train, 2.3d. FEDERAL AIAIL SERVICE." Tuesday, January 9. For Southland, Australian Colonies (via Hobart), India. China, Straits Settlement, South Africa, Alediterranean ports. C intincntof Europe, United Kingdom, etc. —Per South express (to cjiin«'rt with the Tarawera), at S a in. Due in London February IS. DIRECT AIAIL SERVICE. The De'nhic will leave Wellington for London via Teneriffe on the 9th, at 1 p.m. For West Coast Sounds and Buy.—Per Waikare from the Bluff, on the 9th, at (i.30 a.m. Arails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Alaliaponri, will close at Auckland on the lUth January, at I p.m. for Natal and Cape Town, from AMbourne, pjr Queen Olga, January 10, and Gulf of Genoa, Janunry 12. Mails for Rarrtonga and Tahiti, per Ovalau. will close at Auckland on the 16th January, at ! p.m.

Mails for Natal and C->pe Town, from Jlelboarne, per Aloravian, on the 21th January. (Signed) Edm. Cook, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, January S, 1900.

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Rankin—GuTimiE.-On the 4th inst., at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Wellington, by the Ruv. James Patersuu, Robert Stirling Rankin, Dunedin, to Jlarv Ann Todd, daughter of ths late John Guthrie, Holmes, near Kilmarnock, Scotland.

(JA\v.v-CilA.\NlNf;s. —On .'ird January, at Wellington, Robert, eldest son of Francis Gawn, of Dunedin, to R-becca, third daughter of .lames Cb-nnings, nf Blenheim. Cl.ui.KK—PoxvKi.i,. —On the 2tHh December, at .St. Pauls Cithedial. liy the V'i-n. Archdeacon Robinson. George Frederick Clnlee, to Edith Br'Oinlield Powell; both of Dunedin. Hicks—Huntkii —On the sth January, at Dunedin, George Frederick, second s'm of Alfred Hicks, .St. Clair, to Charlotte Eiiziheth. second youngest daughter of John Hunter, Dunedin.

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LAiNfi.-On the tith January, at his residence, Queen street, Dunedin, Francis Gregory Laing, youngest son of the late Rev. \V. laing, Crictlj Scotland ; aged (i 5 years. Gkkkn.—On the 7th January (sudd mly), at his residence, Reach street, Waikouaiti, Michael Green ; in his 79th year.

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DimsTO.v.—ln memory of my dear husband, George Haines Durst .n, .jockey, who died January Bth. if- 1 .)!), through injuries received at Sydney, NS.W. R.l.P.—lnserted by his loving wife and children. Announcements of births, marriages, and deaths Bent for publication from the country diotricts roquire to be verified by the signature of either our agent in tie district from which the announcement is sent or by the clergyman of the district.