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Evening Star, Issue 11251, 26 May 1900, Page 4

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The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consurantion to-dav was £770 16s sd. • Maclean and Go. report having held their usual auction sale of hides, fat, and tallow at their stores, Crawford street, yesterday afternoon. Thu trade was well represented, and the auctioneers cleared a largo catalogue under first-class bidding at the following prices:—Ox hides (light), 3Jd to 41; heavy are worth np to 4}d ; cow hides (all weights). 3jd to 4d ; calfskins, lid to 4a 31; tallow, I3s 6d to 18s 6d ; rough fat, Os 6i to J3s 6d. HOTEL SALES. Sievwright Bros, and Co. report the sales of the freehold, furniture, and stock of the .Scotia Hotel Dundasand Leith streets, from Mr Co iksley to Mr O Hallera j thu Petjblts liotid, near Ofiumru from Mr J. Parker to Mr .Toha Islip, of Mahenothe Palmerston Hotel, Palmerston, from Mr Malcolm Allen to Mr Edward Smith, recently of Waikaka; also the Gore Coffee Palace (leasehold stock, and furniture), on account of Mr E. a! Ay-son, to Mrs Stewart, of Riverton. PERPETUAL TRUSTEES, ESTATE, AND AGENCY COMPANY. The directors of the above company in their sixteenth annual report state that the profit for the yeay amounts to £1,313 31, which, added to £3,977 Is 7d brought forward from previous year gave an available balance of £5,919 KLIM Out of this an interim dividend at the rate of 12J per cent, per annum «as paid for tho half-year ended 31st October, 1899. which absorbed £507 17s 4d. and tho directors now recommend that the balance, £5,411 13s sd. he. dealt with ns follows •- To payment of dividend at 121 per cent, per annum for half-year ended 30fch April. 1900, £507 17s 4d ; to writing off goodwill account in full £2,831 6s ; to carry forward to next year, £2,072 11s Id. THE LABOR MARKET. John Skene and Son report a very busy week, so many employers visiting town, combining business with pleasure. It is a hard pull to supply the big demand ’ for ronntrv bauds. Wages as under: Couples, £65 to £75 : shepherds £55 to £6O ; ploughmen, £1 and 22s 'ld ; grooms’ 751 pud 20s; cooks and bakers, 255; gardeners’ 2os; trappers, 6d pair and up ; farm and dairy lads, IQs, 12s (id, 15s, and 20s ; potatoe lifters, 6d bag ; small boys, 5s to 10s, etc. MINING NOTES. The Spring Vale report a return of 7ozlodwt for 10.) hour -’ work. The Morning Star report a return of 6oz Itidwt for 118 hours'dredging. The Sfngnetic was not working last week owing to the river being high. The Electric will start dredging on Monday. The Junction Electric report a return of 370z Ih'dwt for the week ended May 25. Owing to an error in telegraphing, the Hartley and Riley return for the week ended yesterday was reported as 560z lOdvvt instead of ROoz 4dwt. Hokitika, May 20.—The local brokers supply the following quotations for to-day :—AI, 2s, 2s3dAylmer Loads, 3d, 6J ; Bbckwaters, 3d, 6d; Day Dawns (Ross), 2-u 2s 61 ; Erickson's Reward, 6s‘; Greenstone Creek, 4s fid ; Greenstone, 2s ; Greenstone Junctions, 7s ; Greenstone (Three-mile) Is <)d 2s fid ; Golcondns, 4s ; Grey River, 11s fid; Hokitika River, tis 9J, 7s; Hokitika Extended, Is ; Kohinoora, 6s 6d; Kohinoor Extended, 2s, 2s 6d • Leviathans, Bs. 9a; Marsden No. 1, Is’ 2a: Marsden No. 3. 4s Od, 5s ; Marsden Lead, 6s 6d ; Nelson Creeks, 21s, 22s ; New Rivers, 2s; Ruby Creek, 6d, Is; Pactolns, 16s. 17s ; Prince of Wales. 7s, 8s; Tucker’s Flat. 2s 6d, 3s; Woodstock, 2s fid. THE SHARE MARKET. The Equitable Stock Exchange report ax follows:—Sales: Golden Link, 6d ; Miller’s Flat Electric, 30s: New Alexandra, 35s ; River Molyneux, 14s fid ; Royal Maori, 8s 31; Sixteen-mile Beach, 8s; Vincent, 61s, 625. Buvers: Ahaura River, 6d ; Cardruna Valley, is; Crown Diamond, 3d ; Ford’s Creek, 6d dis; Galvanic Gold, 4s; Golden Link, par; Golden River. Is (id; New Alexandra, 335; Sailor’s Bend, 335; Waimumu Extended, 19s. Sellers ; Adam's Flat, par; Ahaura River, pav; Arrow Junction, 5b ; Arthur’s Point. Is dis ; Bald Hill, 3d dis ; Bannockburn. fid dis; Bendigo Gold, 17s W ; Cardrona Valley, lx 8d ; Coal Creek, 2s 6d : Crown Diamond, 6d; Dunedin, 12s fdj E citric, 655; Evans Flat, 30s ; Excelsior, 2s 6d ; Fust Chance, 30s; First Taieri, 2s dis; Garvey Burn, Is: Galvanic Gold, 4s 3d ; Garibaldi, 3d ; Gibb’s Beach 2j • GibbstonGoW, 6d dis; Gold Deposit, par; Gold’ Chair, 6d; Golden Banner, (id; Golden Bed Ms • Gold Chain, Is: Golden Falls, 12s 6d; Golden Gravel, Is; Golden Horseshoe, fid dis ; Golden Ripple, 2s 8d; Golden Vein. Is dis; Grand Junction, 6d; Grey Duck, 2a dis; Great Lead lx; Greenstone Gold, 2s 9d; Gunton’s Beach’ 2s 9.1; Hams Beach. Is ; Kia-Ora, 2« dis ; Lioness. 6d dis; Meg and Annie. £7a Gd; Merrimac, 12sMiller’s Flat. i)2s; Mokoia. 21? Gd(pnid); New Alexandra, 35s 6d ; Nugget. 18s; No Town No. 2 Is • Olrig, 10s; Prince Imperial, Is dis; Point dO.r, Is dis; Pride of Tuapeka, Is • Romarkablex, 3s dis; River Molyneux, 15s

fid; Riverbank, 245; Roxburgh Jubilee. 8a; Royal Sovereign, 2* fid dia; Row Flat, Hd; Sailm’s Bono, 4fls; Sixteon-milo Beach, 0s ; Tncou’a Cir* nr.»na, 2# fid ; Teivtimkau, 'M di# *. Triumph, fi l; Vincent. fins; Whimmnu Extend'd, 2-1#; Wet L?ad, 2s ; White Star, S* fid; Woodstock, 2s Od; JShotovcr, 2d.