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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5636, 9 December 1879, Page 4

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NKW /OEAfwUiP IIRi?ALD OUi'»•. Monday evening. The duties collected at tlie Customs to-dny were £359 IPs Gd. Messrs. S. Cochrane and Son offered for sale this morning, by order of the executors under the will of the late Mr. Henry Keeping, the the whole of his city, suburban, and country properties, and shares. The large room of the auctioneers was crowded, and the majority of the lots offered were sold. Lot 5, with brick buildings, in Shortland-strcct, realised £300 ; loi 7, 2S foot frontage to passed in; the residence of the deceased, in Waterloo Quadrant, £GOO: lot IS, 43 feet frontal to Princes-street, withdrawn at £575; lot 5. West Queen-street, with wooden buildings £200 ; lot IG, G5 feet frontage to Rank-street. withdrawn at 25s per foot: lots 12 and 19, Cook-street, lus per foot; lot 9, Graham-street, with coct;igc, subject to purchase by tenant, £05 ; Symonds-street- unexpired lease, with seventeen months to run, £25; Richmond —S acres, £200 ; Ponsonby—lots 23 and 30, with fmntiges of 39 feet each, 21s per foot; Hellyers Creek — 33 acres, 13s per acre ; Riverhead—l4 allotments, 7s Gd each; Drury-2 allotments, £1 each. Shaies : .535 shares in Auckland Gas Company, £S 10s each ; GG Day of Island* Coal Company, passed ; 00 rfouth l>iitish Insurance, 38s each ; 20 Thames Gold Mining Company, 19i; 12 Kuranui Hill United Gold Mining Company, 3s Gd each. The same auctioneers, under a distress warrant of the Resident Magistrate's Court, dis posed of 50 shares in the Corotmndel Steambort Company (Limited) at 2s 01 each, ami 11S shares in the Tokatea Gold Miuing Company at Is each.