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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7647, 26 May 1886, Page 4

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New Zealand Herald Office. Tuesday evening:. The Cuttoms duties to-day were £2025 13» 4d. Mr. D. F. Evans held a sale of property at his rooms to-day. The attendance was not large. Properties were sold as under : Cottage and allotment in Leamington Road, Mount Eden, £70, purchaser, Mr. John Haelett ; parcel of land at Roganville, Mount Albert, £350, bought by mortgagee. LONDON COMMERCIAL NEWS. [FROM OUR OWN CORKKSroNDINT.] London, April 9. There has been a decided fall in the wool market, and at the present moment the state of the wool trade is mors depressed than has been known for rears. The go.ieral uncertainty resulting from the strained state or the political situation is generally held to ba responsible fur tbls unfortunate condition of things. The third series of colonial wool satei will commence on Jam Iβ, the list to be closed on the diy on which 3.">O,CUi> fresh arrivals are reported. Up to date 109,857 biles have been catalogued, of which 21,171 am rrom New Zealand, 35.208 from New South Walei, 0592 from Queensland, 54 401 from Victoria, 17,907 f'om sonth Australia, 'JS79 fmm Western Australia, 1517 from Tasmania, and 10 792 from the Cape. Of thute about 'J3,400 bales have been withdrawn. The corn market 13 steady, but not particularly bri<k New Zealand wheat Is rather short in supply and without change in value. The present quotation! are :—Australian wiwat 'Ms (i 1 and 37« ; New >,3al»rni A'hoar, long-berried, line Z4:i and 'Sin 6il ; ditto, medium 3-'s and 33s ; ditto, :io r , Cd aDd 31s ; New Zealand wheat, short-berried, flnn 3'2s Hrt nnd 33s 61 ; ditto, medium 31s 6d and 3:!s til ; ditto, inferior, 303 and 3ls ;>er -IJGIb; Australian flour (aipcrflne) is quoted at ?ii and 255, patent 20j and 27s ; Naw Zealand Hour, patent 243 6d aud 25s 6d, fine 20s and 22s por '. bOll) gross. ! Owing to a scarcity of domestic supplies during the past fortnight, there hai been an advance in the value uf mutton, through frnzeu meat has h*rdiy been affected in consequence of the unusually large supplies available. The provincial markets have absorbed a fiir amount of frczju mutton at current prices. The amount of frozen mint imported into London during the first quarter of the current year amounts to 219.743 carcases, as againnt 17(J,10d carcases at the corresponding period la.st year. This year Now Zealand bas sent 155,074 carcases, Australia 2381, and the Kiver Plate 91,405. Tho whole of the Coptic's cargo has been sold at ii'l to 6(1, and the Kuapehu hue also been cleared out. The Tainul's meat i> all disposed of except about 1000 lambs, the highest price obtained being 6d. About half the MarlborougH's cargo hn« gone at 6J i, »nd three-quarters of the Kalkoura's at the sauio figure. Of the Eldoralie'e consignment 6009 hare changed hand's at 61d to s}d, and 3000 out of 18,000 sheep in the Doric have been sold at 5d to s^rl. The Canterbury, from Tlmaru, with 9922 sheep, arrived on April 2, but none of the meat has as yet found Its way to Smlthfield, STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland. MAT 25, ISS6.

A. oaumieri, O. Alexander, 3. VicKure, J. F. (jlarKe. K. Frator, John Mowbray, J. B. Alorpeth, J. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, D. O. Mat»onn«ll, AitUnn Carried. H. Spratt, Francis Hull, James Reid, R. O. Macky. Joricph NirvMAM. Chairman.

Company. Businew. Closing Prices. ttuyera. 1 Seliori. Banks— £ s. d. i & s. d. New Zealand .. 10/17/6 — 20 0 0 National .. .. — 1 10 0 - Insurance— New Zealand ... — — 'J 10 0 South British .. — — 1 15 0 Colonial .. .. — — 0 4 9 MIHOELLAJJBOUK— Auckland Gas (new) — — 5 12 (i Thames Gas.. .. — — 1 14 6 Union Sash and Door — — 1 10 0 N.Z. Loan & Mur... — — 4 0 0 N. Land Mortgage 21/cum. — — Mining— Taupiri Coal .. — 16 C — Cambria .. .. — — 0 9 6 Darwin .. .. — — 0 8 0 Gnldon Crown .. 1/2 — — Silrorton .. .. — • 03t>040