COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11523, 8 September 1899, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. , • The amount of revenue collected at the custom house to-day on goods cleared for consumption was dßl__9of6s"4d.':' r".'

THE MEAT MARKET.

NAPIER, September 7.—Messrs Nelson Jpros. lave received the following cable from the C.C. and D. Company, yLondon:—" The frozen meat market quotations;,to-day. are as follow:—Best. Canterbury, 3Jd;> best Dunedin and Southland, 3d; best Napier (North-Island), 2£d; lamb—first qunlity, 4|d; second quality, 4_d." . : " ■ ;•','■ ,

SALE OF. PASTORAL: RUNS'.

Messrs Donald Reid and Co.. under instructions from the High Schools Board of .Governors, offered for sale at" the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the leases of Runs, 205 d, 205e, 213 a, and 213 d; Rock:, and Pillar .and. Strath-Taieri districts. There was fa goody attendance, and three of the'runs realised considerably: more than the fupsety.prices. The result of the sale was'as follows:— '.'

Run 205 d, containing about 6376 a; upset rent £132 16s-Bd-per annum; P.' Kenny, £195 per annum. ~.,...'..:

Run 205e, containing about 9584 a; upset rent _-_99 13s 4d per annum; J. C. -Buckland. £205 per annum. - , s . . .' Run 213 a, containing about 7619 a; upset rent' £158 14s 7d; A. M'Kay and,E. O'Connell, £185 perannum. . yfy . , -

Run 213n, containing about 9736 a; upset rent£2o2 16s 8d per annum; Wm. Murray and John Roberts, upset price, y --"-.-. .-. . --