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Daily Times Office, Tuesday evening. BREADSTUFFS. The. New Zealand Flour Millers' Association Jiavo decided to reduce the price of Iwan «tid pollard to £5 10s per tern, the reducften to date from to-inorrow (Wednesday), Ist prox. IMPORT MARKET. Of the 800 bales of woolpaotcs for this market on board the Aparima, at least half, or fully 400 bales, are badly damaged with ealt water, and will be unfit for use for packing wool. Tho balance is in fair condition. T<> supply the deficiency in the season's requirements, additional orders have been cabled! to Calcutta, and the. woolpacks will be Shipped, to a,mve> here, via Australia, in November. It is probable also that further supplies will bo drawn direct from the Australian market. The damaged cargo, comprising some 300 -f\ ,>c,6l P a ' ck * antl 500 tons of bonedust, cL y a " cfc i Dtl on Saturday next. Some of the castor-oil is leaking badly, otherwise it is coming out in fair condition. ; «*. ;— CUSTOMS RETURNS. The amount of revenue collected at the Uunedin Custom House to-day on goods £1 J OT crinSum Ption was £725 19s. The Customs returns for the past month we-as follow:—Net customs, £40,725 to 9d;. lieer duty 2006 16s lid; gold export, 22*44208; valued at £89,832. The figures for *TT e^ b t r £ la f yoar w<?re: Net customs, ±.31,322 3s 3d; boor duty, £1246 9s: gold export, 23,8480z, valued at £95,762. "— ♦ • GORE STOCg SALE. (Fro»£ Our Own Cohresponbent.) ■RA,«rt i ~ G °BE» September 29. .i™ 11 , W ?^ or WRS - «P«ienced- for the sale to-day, but there was only a small entry very brisk, and a few pens were not sold. Fat wethers brought i 3s to 36s 7d; fat ewes, 10s Ba, hoggets sold at .from 4s Gd to lis 3dl\at bullocks (small) brought £5 10s to £7 ssfat heifers, up to £7 15s; two-ycar-old steers and heifers, .€3 10s; yearlings, £2 10s; milk cows up to £0 12s 6d. . «»>mui£ ' ASHBURTON SALES. (Per United Press Association) At « , , AS HBURTON, September 30. JtJn* Tf y there was a general as » result of the improved prospects for feed which is coming on rapidly after the late rains. INVESTMENT STOCKS. A sale of shares in the Wostport Coal Company took place on the Dunedin Stock Ex Change yesterday at £5 Bs. The following are yesterday's latest quotations:— ' National Insurance—Buyers £1 is 6d. Insurance—Buyers 18s Gd, sellers 19S. New Zealand and River Plate Land Company (new issue)— Buyers £1 3s, sellers £1 4s 6d. Milburn Lime and Cement (£1 paid)— Buyers £1, sellers £1 10s. New Zealand Drug (£2 paid)-Sellers £2 7s. Wellington Woollen—Buyers £5 ss. M?Leod Bros.—Buyers £14 128 6d, sellers £14 173 6d. Ban-, Leary, and Co., stock and sharebrokers, Dunedin.—lnvestment shares and debentures a specialty. Communications invited re invest ments ror small or large sums. Investment shares can be supplied at market quotations.—Advl <► Tho Wairirapa Co-operative Association had a most successful year, and the director* have declared a dividend of 6 per cent, and a. bonus of 3 per cent, on the capital, a bonus of 3 per cent, on shareholder purchases, and a. bonus of 3 per cent, on the wages of employees; also a bonuß to the heads of those departments which have shown a, substantial increase. Tho sum of £1017 is transferred to the reserve, which how stands at £10,000, and £6000 was carried forward.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12472, 1 October 1902, Page 4
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