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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11934, 7 January 1901, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

1 Daily Times Office, Saturday evening, j The amount of revenue collected at the custom house fo-dav on (foods cleared for con sumption was £1213 13s Bd. There wore practically only two business days during Hie past week, and on those very littlo trade was done, any transactions being merely for the supply of immediate wants. No doubt business' will pick nn again next week. Meantime we have no changes in values io report except in kerosene, which has gone back in consequence of stocks being augmented and further supplies being clofc at hand. Sales are now passin? at Is ljd and Is 2d per gallon, and for forward delivery quotations are a good deal lower, j Mr A. Hordman having resigned his posi- ! tion as manager of the Commercial Property n lr' nanee Company, the position has been offered to and accepted by Mr Robert Ewing, (■who was for somo time manager for the j Colonial Bank at Dunedin. and after amalga- ' malion manaaor of the Pnlmerston branch of the Bnnk of New Zealand. j A dividend will he paid on the old shares in the New Zealand and River Plate Land Mortgago Company on the 15th inst,, at the rate of 3Jc per cent, for the half-vcar ended October 31, 1900. On the same date a dividend at the rate of 3J; per cent, for the halfyear ended 31st October lapt mil be paid on the 10s paid-up on the new shares. ' The directors of the National Bank of Now Zealand have declared an interim dividend for the half-year ended September 30 last at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum, now payable. J DUNEDIN HORSE SALEYARDS. j Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. [ as follows:—'Our weekly aale was resumed toi da.y (Saturday), when we submitted a fair entry of horses, iuo3t of them medium and aged draughts and light harness horses. A few useful young draught mares and geldings, not heavy, were offered, but as the demand for thin class of horse . is, as usual at this season, somewhat slack, I only one of them—a five-year-old gelding— changed hands at £12 10f. Tho Sydney consignment of spring-van and' spring-cart horses was not quite up to the standard of the two preceding shipments, 'but being serviceable animals a number of them changed hands at from £18 to £37. A consignment of useful harness horses from the 'north,. suitable for bakers' and butchers' carts, changed hands at ■ from ill to £15 10s. There is an excellent demand for first-class " remounts," young and - sound, say'five io eight years old; also for, reliable young light harness horses, and we very strongly recommend consignments for next Saturday's sale. We quote:—Superior young draught geldings, £45 to £50; extra good, prise horses, £52 to £60; medium draught mares and geldings, £32 t0.£40; aged draught marcs and geldings, £20 to £30; upstanding carriage horses, £25 to, £30;. well-mashed carriage pairs,.£7o to. £80y

I strong spring-van horses, £28 to £35; milk-cart and butchers' order-cart horses, £16 to £24; tram horses, £12 to £IS; light hacks, £7 to £12; extra good hacks, £18 to £25; weedy and aged hacks and harness horses, £2 to £5.