COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 8283, 16 June 1890, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

New Zealand Herald Office, Saturday evening. The Customs duties to-day amounted to £79 3d Gd. The following are the Customs receipts for the period ending June 14, 1890 :— Duties .. „ £5,241 12 a lieer duty.. .. .. _ 270 -J i Light dues—Auckland _ 411 3 7 „ Onehunga _ 0 19 3 „ Thames .. _ 1 7 10 ~ Coromaniiel _ 10 9 „ Hokianga _ o 1 o „ Whangarei _ 0 (> 8 ~ Whangaroa _ 13 12 a S. & S. Fees and M.S. .. _ 7 12 'J Port charges—Onehunga _ 2 9 9 ~ Whangarei _ OIS 10 Gold Duty—Thames County _ 145 10 0 „ Otiineinuri .. 66 2 0 Piako .. .. 7 18 0 ~ Coromandel .. 48 12 0 ~ Thames Borough 103 8 0 ~ Keefton „ _ 0 3 3 Other receipts — _ 010 £ti.038 2 6 Refund of Customs duties _ £19 15 1 Drawbacks - £203 11 4 £253 6 0 City Market and Agricultural Hall.— Messrs. Buddie and Gillibrand report a sale of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, from the nursery of Mr. Mason, Hamilton, by Messrs. Arthur and Buddie, auctioneers, on Tuesday list, when over 26,000 plants were disposed of at fair prices. There was a good attendance and bidding brisk. On Wednesday Mr. A. Aitken, auctioneer, held a sale of Island fruit, placing 1,200 bunches bananas, ex Arawata, at 3<l to gd, and pine apples, oranges, and cocoanuts at satisfactory prices. The labour market shows a demand for farm hands. During the past week over 50 hands have been engaged at the City Market Registry at good wages, chiefly for the maize harvest, East Coast. Mr. Thornes, land agent, 81, Queen-street, reports the sale of a small farm at Drury on behalf of Mr. llembridge, with increased demand for farm properties, both to lease and sell. STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION. Auckland. June 14, 1890. Company. ' Business. Closing Prices. Buyers. 1 Sellers. Banks : £ s d £ s d Nrew Zealand, old.. ifi) — 4 7 0 Colonial ... „ — —220 Insurance : New Zealand .. — 3 10 0 3 11 0 Union ..... — 15 6 — Colonial .. .. — 006069 Miscellaneous : Auckland Gas, old — 10 12 6 — Kauri Timber ... 13/3 — 0 13 G Land Mortgage _ — 014 6 - MINI NO : Cambria - .. — 023026 Saxon _ .. — —069 Caledonian _ — —030 Manukau .... — — 0 1 1 Red Mercury _. — — 0 2 0 New Alburnia „ — — 0 4 0 Freedom ..... — — 0 010 Mariposa _ — — 0 1 0 Royal Oak « — — 0 4 3 Norfolk ..... — — 0 1 7 May Queen ..... — — 0 1 10 Try Nuke .... — —009 Otama .. .. — — 020 City of Dunedin .. — — 0 13 C. Alexander, S. Vickers, J. F. Clarke, R. Frator, .1. M. Lennox, D. B. McDonald, D. G. MacDonnell, Aitken Carrick, K. Spratt, Francis Hull, James Iteid, It. G. Maclty, Samuel Turtle, T. A. Menzies. JOSEPH Newman, Chairman. CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. calls. £ a. d. Freedom G.M.Co. «. „ 0 0 2 _ June 16 Carbine G.M.Co. „ 0 0 3 .. July I