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Otago Daily Times, Issue 11956, 1 February 1901, Page 4

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Daily Times Offioc, Thursday evening. The amount of revenue collected at the Dunedin Custom House to ; dny On goods cleared for consumption was £3505 6s 9d. The customs revenue for the past month on goods cleared for consumption amounted to £44,876 15s 7d. The beer duty for the month came to Mdl 6s 9d. In the corresponding month of last year £46.759 6s 6d was collected as customs duty on goods cleared for consumption, and the beer duty amounted to £1780 3s Bd. For the five months ending yesterday the butter shipped from New Plymouth totals 113,331 packages, of the value of £225,107, and of ehecse 12,126 packages, of the value of £30,315. For the corresponding period last year 86.337 packages of butter, of the value of £216,£69, and 4720 packages of cheese, worth £11,800, were shipped. (S. INVESTMENT STOCKS. The Dunedin Stock Exchange report the following sales yesterday:—National Insurance, 19s; Standard Insurance, 17s. The following are yesterday's quotations: — National Insurance—Sellers 19s 3d. Standard Insurance—Buyers 16s 9d, sellers m. Milburn Lime and Cement (£1 paid)—Sollers £1 17s fid. Milburn Lime and Cement (10s paid)— Sellers 19s'3cl. Momington .Tramway—Buyers 13s Cd, sellers 15s. New- Zealand Drug (£2 paid)— Buyers £2 12s. Godward's Spiral Pin—Buyers Is, sellers Is 6d.

QUOTATIONS FOR COCKSFOOT. . (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, January 81. The Government Produco Commissioner in London, having been instructed to include cocksfoot in his weekly quotations, has decided that the quotations cabled shall be the average price ruling lor bright, clean seed, 17lb to the bushel. The commissionei thinks it iB not generally known in New Zealand that seed harvested here in one. season is seldom EOld in England till the following year, as it arrives in June or July, when merchants are not desirous of purchasing; therefore, owing to the necessity of holding stocks, the commissioner doubts if the quotations ruling in one season will be of great assistance to growers in determining the prices to be fixed for seed in the coming harvests. STARR-BOWKETT SOCIETIES. A general meeting of shareholders in the Dun-' cdin Starr-Bowkett Building Society was held in the Oddfellows' Hall, Stuart street, last night, when £500 -was disposed of by ballot, cluster No. 33 being drawn, held by one shareholder. £500 was sold at a premium of £28 per £100. The Southern Starr-Bowkett Society held another sale of an appropriation of £500 last evening, resulting in a premium of £33 10s being obtained. HAWKE'S BAY RAM AND EWE FAIR. (Per United Pjies3 Association,) NAPIER, January 31. At the annual Ram Fair to-day there was a large attendance, but prices. Tilled low in studs, with the exception of English Lcicesters from G. C. Threlkeld's floclt, which brought from % to 19 guineas. The offerings were .restricted to Lincolns. The highest price was G4 guineas, for one of Mr J. B. Sutton's. One of Mr Wilson's, of Waverley, brought 57 guineas, and another 45 guineas. In flock rams there was more demand for Border and English Lcicesters and Romneys, but taken all round prices were in favour of buyers, and many lots were passed in.