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Nbw Zealand Hkbald Office. Saturday afternoon. Tee duties to-day amounted to £415 19a lid. The duties collected at tho Customs during the week amounted to : — Duties - £6,703 4 9 Light dues 103 6 2 Port charges (Onehunga) ... 0 14 6 Forms and fees 8 12 6 Beer duty 188 12 0 Other receipts 97 14 10 £7,102 S 9 Messrs. Carbines and Taylob held their usual Friday's sale of poultry, produce, &c. which was well attended. They report: Poultry fetched good prices. Ordinary fowls, 2s 3d to 43"3d ; bantams, Is 3d to 2a 9d; cochin china, 4s ; Brabmas, 3s 3d to 4s Cd; Polish fowls, 3s Sd to 5s 3d; ducks, 2s Sd to 3s Od ; geese, 4s to 5s 6d ; tutkeyp, 43 to 5a Gel; canaries, 10s to 265; yonng pigs, 2s tn i.'r. ench. Fruit: Apples, 7s 6d to 12s ; oranges, 2s Cα i: ss; lemons, 2d to 6d per dozen. Produce: Hams and bacon, 2d to 9dperlb.; Wairoa cheese (good), 7d; (socood class), 2d to 3d ; butter, 4d to 7d ; beef, OJJ to 2d ; onions (scares). 2d to 3il; Oamaru ]iotatoes, £4 to £4 10a ; carrots, 3s to 4s 6d ; oats, 2s 9i; maize, 3s 3d; damaged maize, 3s 6d per bag; bran, 5s 6d; sharps, 6s ; pigmeal, 6s : wheat; 2s 6d to 2s 9ii ; flour, 9s Cd to 14a ; oatmeal, ljd to ljd. Groceries! Tea (half-chest). Is to 2a peril).; boxes, 13s to 245; sucar, 3Jd to 4}d; ri?o,l4s; J sardines; to 3d ; Lea and Perrins" sauce, 6s 9d; salmon, 6s 6d; mixed pickles, 7s 6d; coffee, lid ; mixed biscuits. 5d ; jams, 5s 3d per dozen; cornflour, 6Jd; l>li.e, sd; cocoa, oM ; kerosose, la 7d; candles, 9d. Tho clothing and jewellery were not all cleared. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIBT. Tho following are the current calls and divirien'le of the companies named below, as certified in our advertising columns :— oalls. . £ s. d. Date. Arch (Till Brick and Tile Co. 0 1 0 — Sept. 24 Auckland Back and Tile Co. 0 10 0 — Sept. 24 Northern Omnibus Co. ..026 — Sopt. 29 Coro. Just-in-Time G.M.C0... 0 1 0 — Oct. 10 lona G.M.Co 0 0 6 — Oct. 10 St. Hclier's and u&rthcote L. 0 1 3 — Nov. 1 DIVIDEND. Bank of Australasia .. .. 14 per cent. Oct. 5
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6818, 24 September 1883, Page 4
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