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Otago Daily Times, Issue 12591, 19 February 1903, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times O/ficc, Wednesday evening. The amount of revenue collected nt tlio Duriedin Custom'' House to-day on eoods cleared for consumption was £937 14s sd. COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 17. (Received February 18, at 10.5G a.m.) , Shares in the Federal Supply Cold Storage Company of South Africa, are being reissued. New South Wales 3 per cents, are at £90 ss— a drop of 35s since Friday last. Copper: Spot, £57 7s (id; three months. £57 2s 63. Tin: Spot, £135 2s 6d: three months, £135 17s Cd; Lead, £11 lis 3d. ' The tota) quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,470,000 quarters, and for the Continent 823,000 quarters, ; PROPERTY SALES. Messrs Sievwright Bros, and Co. offered for isalo at auction yesterday a valuable freehold .property in Rattray street, close to the Government Life Insurance Building, when tilers was a fair attendance. The property was first submitted as a, whole, but failed to elicit a single bid, and the auctioneer announced that he would pffer it in two separate lots. For ;the first lot there was no offer received, and for tho second, having a frontage of 49.5 links and a depth of 100 links, with the buildings .thereon,'a "bid of £2000 was made. This was .increased to £3500, and, as there was no sign of an advance, the auctioneer announced that : the reserve had not been reached, and the property was passed in. It was subsequently stated that tho reserve was £5000. . Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co, report jhaving sold, by private treaty, on account of Mr Stephen Hunter, Harringtons, his farm, ■being section 41 and part of sections 42 and 43, Cowan'B Estate, also lot 7, Benmore Estate, containing 1165-acres, to Mr John M'Kay, Mataura Island, who is to be congratulated on having sec-ired such a desirable property. <t> INVESTMENT STOCKS. Dnnedin Stock Exchange reports the following quotations yesterday: — : National Bank—Sellers £4 12s. • Bank of New Zealand—S?llerß £4 4s. ' National Insurance—Buyers £1 Is 3d, sellers £1 Is 9d. 1 Westport Coal—Buyers £5 14s, sellers £G. New Zealand Coal and Oil—Buyers 2s 6d, sellers ss. - Milburn Lime and Cement (£1 paid)— Buyers fl 4s. Milburn Lime and Cement (10s paid)— Buyers IGs sellers 16s. .New Zealand Drug (£2 paid)— Sellers £2 10s. • Donagby's Hops and Twinfe—Buyers £1116s. ' . ■<> * — J. Newburgh Lawson (late Barr, Lcarv, and Co.), stock and sharcbroker, Stock Exchange Building, Water street,.Dunedin. Investment shares and debentures a specialty. Communications re investments invited, and full pariicjilflxf, o£ al?. .stocks rvtv application*