COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11798, 30 July 1900, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Saturday-evening.

The amount of revenue- collected at the custom house to-day on goods; cleared for consumption was £481 10s lld.

A London cable st.ite.3 that silver, is quotei at 2s 3 15-16 d per ounce. ; .

INVESTMENT STOCES.

The Dunedin Stock Exchange- report the following quotations for investment .stocks on Saturday:— .'»' -' National Insurance—Sellers 17s Sd.< . Standard Insurance—Buyers 163, sellers 17s 6d. . :.

Westport Coal—Sellers £i 2s 6d.

PROPERTY SALES,

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows: — ' ' . . At our sale rooms, High street, we offered Mr William Stewart's well-known farm of\4Bo acres, at Waiwera, by public auction this afternoon. There was' a. fair, attendance of the public, including a few buyers, but as their views as to value did not harmonise with those of the vendor, no business was done under the hammer, but negotiations for the sale of the property py private treaty are now pending,, an-1 as Mr Stewart is prepared to' sell at a price at which the farm can be made -to pay handsomely, it should, not remain long in the. market unsold. It is undoubtedly'one <sj the.best farms in the Waiwera district," and' die of the cheapest we have submitted to. competition for some time. Messrs Sievwright Bros, and Co. offered on Saturday, at their rooms, a number of pro-

perties, under instructions from the adminis-

trator in the estate of the late.W. J. H; Larnach and other vendors. The. properties, which are situated at Portobello, Dunoon, Waverley, Green Island, North Harbour and .Blueskin

districts, .elicited fair competition, nearly all the lots being quitted. The sale was in, every respect a v.cry successful one. The sales were

as follow:—Lot 1, allotments 4 to 14,' block VIII, Portobello, containing 2 acres 3 roods 21.8 poles, Mr Porterfield, £55.'■ Lota 3, .4,, and 8, Township of Dunoon, containing 3 roods and 13 poles, Mr Cole, £54. Lot 5, allotments 19 to 23, 32, and 33, block I, Township of "Waver- ; le? with substantial brick residence known as Waverley House, £550. Two other sections in Portobello were also sold to Mr J. M'Cartney.

for £10; allotment.B, block VIII, South Dunedin, to Mr Horn, at £60; and allotment 9, block VIII, South Dunedin, to Mr T. Fiddis, at £60. Owing to the demand existing for prQperties of all classes, and to the success of the above sale,. Messrs Sievwright Bros..ana Co, intend in future to hold weekly land auction sales on Saturdays at 12.30. '

Mr H. S. Valentine held a sale of education reserve leases, under instructions from, the School Commissioners of Otago, when the following were disposed of:—.Section' 1,. block XIII, Moeraki, 100 alr '3p,.Gd per acre; section 1, block XIV, Moeraki, 180 a3r 20p, 6d per acre; section 3, block VII, Hawksburjv 162 aOr 18p, 6d per acre; section 1, block IX, Hawksbury, 100 acres, 6d per acre; section 2,. block Ml, Otakia, 40 acres, Is per acre; section 21; block VII, Blueskin, 10a 2r 5p,--Is.'per. acre; section 51, block VII, Blueskin, 10a.Or 9p, Is per acre; section 20, block XVII, Lawrence, 1 rood, 20s; section 4, block VI, Lawrence! 2 roods, 40s; section 362, Port Chalmers, £4; section 14, block IV, Waihola-, 10s; section 1, block XXV, Waihola, 10s. .......

Messrs Park, Reynolds, and Co. on Saturday offered several properties, and sold to 'Mr G-. Rendall a shop and -dwelling in Castle street(between Frederick and Albany streets) for £350. ' . . ■ . '

DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows:--

We had a very small entry .of horses for Saturday's sale—sonic half-dozen draughts and 12 or 15 medium hacks and harness horses. The draughts, which were Useful horses, sold at £43, £39, £34, £30, £25, and £23. The light horses were an inferior lot,, and. very few of them changed hands. The demand for good horses of all classes continues Very satisfactory, and sales of fresh, sound,. young -horses are not difficult to effect. We quote: Superior young draught geldings,' £45 to £50; extra good, prize horses, £52 to £57; medium draught mares and geldings, £35 to £42; aged do, £22 to' £32; upstanding carriage horßos, £25 to £30; well-matched carriage pairs, £30 to_£7o; strong spring-van horses, £25 to £30; milk cart and butchers' order- cart horses, £15 to £20: tram horses, £9 to £14 j light-hacks, £6 to £8; extra good hacks, £18 to £25; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £2 to £5.