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N'it Zealand Herald Office. Monday Tht Customs duties to-Jay amounted to £1702 Th'e'va!ue of the cirgo of the snip Rakaia wliii.b sailed for London on Saturday, is as follows -—Wool, 120H bales, 12 pockets, 4 bags, fIO.rSL ; cotton, 55 packages (39,5931b5.), £1712; whalebone, 3 cases (lewi.), £5: tallow, 97 casks (M 7 7-20 tons), £9b'2 ; leather 40 bales (■•'< 73fd!>3 ) £1263; salted beef, 10 casks (28'lOlbs.), £3S; preserved moat, 20 cases (lOOOibs.). £22 : !;auri gum, 3707 casos, 3 bags 1100 tons), i'l7,. r KJ!I: borns, :>9G7, £23; shank boues 73cwt., i.'3S ; copra, 1:37 tons, £1370 ; curios, 10 case-i, £70; silver bullion, IS bars (IS S3sozs.), £1236; surveyors'instruments, 2 cases, £50 ; felt hoods, 1 case, £150 ; rags, 12 bales, £103 ; Australian wine. 2 cases (4 gallons), £4 ; pictures, 2 cases, £22 ; pearl-shell, 24 cases (2 tons), £155: manganese, 145 tons, £435; ferns 2 cases, £27 ; hair, 2 balej (9931b5.), £71; flax, 108 bales (12A tons), £27;".; sundries, S cases, £190: total declared value, £tS..=U7. Messrs. B. Touks and Co. quitted 115 cases currants, not in first-class condition, at a fair price. Mr. \V. Dowden sold the loasea of several City Council properties yesterday. The lease for GO years of the largo allotment of land, situated at the corner of Rutland and Lomestreets, having a frontage of 75 feet to each street, was purchased by Messrs. Oarlick aud Cranwell for £50 per annum. The lease for 22 years of building allotments, with a frontage of 50 feet each to I'atteson-street. Freeman's Bay, went as follow : —N'o. 4, £7 10s, Mr. Billinsiton; No. 5, £S 10s, Mr. Horsley ; No. S, £12, Mr. Jolm Brown ; No. 11 £14 10s, No. 12 £11 lOi, Mr. Theophilus Cooper. Messrs. Satnuel Cochrane and Son held a sale of leasehold properties, by order of the Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School. There was a large atteudanco of buyers, and the competition w,is spirited". The following prices were realised :—Tho property known as the Ks.eh.\.nge Hotel, I'amell, was leased at a rental of £455 per annum ; II acres at iieniuera, £'37 per annum ; and a number of [U'.otmentson the New North-road, from £5 to £5 per year.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6251, 29 November 1881, Page 4
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