COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 12618, 23 March 1903, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Offico, Saturday evening. The amount of revenue collected at tho Dunedin Custom House to-day on coods cleared for consumption was £249 18s 4d. Another shipment of 3760 tops, of wheat lias arrived at Sydney from Tocoina, (U.S.A.]. , IMPORT MARKET. Business in Bond street keeps steady but quiet, and in leading lines values are practically unchanged. . In tho mail summary accompanying tins issue will be found a record of- jhe Ifst three weeks' happenings, together villi complete prices current. COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. , Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON March 20. (Received March 21, at 9.30 a.m.) Wheat: New York red winter is quoted at SO.Gc a bushel, buf at San Francisco flic pticc 13 150 c a cental. Brewing barley in San Francisco is 1215 c a 'cental.. Freights from San Francisco to Sydney, are quoted at. 10s 9d to 11a Gd, but with an option to Melbourne, 12s ga to 18s Gd> The shipment of wheat from Atlantic ports for the week is 206,000 quarters, and from tho Pacific ports nil. EXPORT OF PRODUCE. . Our Wellington correspondent telegraphs: — The following shipments of dairy produce were sent to London by theßimutaka, which sailed from Wellington on Saturday:—Auckland, 3052 packages butter; New Plymouth, 5212 packages butter and 1379 cases cheese; Patea,,l472 packages butter; Wellington, 5324 packages butter and 610 cases cheese; Lyttelton, 477 packages .butter and 15G cases cheese; Duucclin, 1172 cases cheeßc; 'Bluff, 51-1 cases cheese;—total, 15,567 packages butler and 4031 coses cheese. : PROPERTY SALES. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and: Co. report having held, at Gore recently, a sale of sections in the town of Gore, owned by the Now Zealand Agricultural Company (Limited), when tho following sales vjero mudc:—Section 23, Company's Survey No. 0, to Mr James A. Yule for £10 10s; section 31 (same surra), to MiGeorge Bishop for £15; section 32, to Mr S. Bishop for fls; section 30, to Mr William Fewings for £10 10s; and sections 37 and 38, to Mr A. E. Kemp for .£35. They also report tho following sales on account of the same company, made privately at satisfactory prices:—Lot Bon the plan of the recent sale of Rivorsdalo township sections, to Mr James Milne; lot 29, to Mr George John Watt; lot 15 of the recently offered Handeville township sections to Mt David Low Mill; and section No. 28, Company's Survey No. 10, containing Gl acres 1 rood 30.8 poles, to Mrs Kate Roche.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report having sold privately on' account of Mr Jervis Wilson his well-known Wendon farm, being sections 7 and 10, block X, Wendon district, containing 55G acres or. thereabouts to Mr C. Fleming, of Greenvale, at a satisfactory price, This is one of the best farms in the district, and Mr Fleming is fortunate in the purchase of it.

Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report having sold, at a satisfactory price, to Mr Robert Watson, who lias been slock manager on Casllerock Station foi many years past, allotments 1, 2, and 3, Castlerock .suney, containing 1G52 acres of good agricultural land. The block is now fenced in and subdivided into four paddocks, and is almost all in English grass. In the capable hands of Mr Watson it will make a very valuable property. Mr Wofson is to bo congratulated on his purchase. It is certain to improve very lunch in value as the settlement of the estate proceeds. There are now- numerous inquiries for sections 011 the property, and other sales aift pending. DUNEDIX HOUSE SAIiEYAEDS. Messrs Wright, Stephenson, and Co. report as follows:—Between 56 and 60 horses 0! varioug sorts canw forward to last Saturday's sale, of which number about 30 found new owners. Very few draughts were offered, and all'but one were aged. One gelding, 7yrs, realised £39; a colt, Syts, £33 10.?; and some old liorsos fetched up to'£3o. There is'a good demand for sound young' animals, suitable for town and country work, hut very few have been offered at our- recsnt. sales. Spring-van and spring-cart horses ar; also badly.wanted, and one colt, 3yrs, of the lfttter type, fetched £33 ot Saturday's flnle.'.light harness.horses are also in request, and a riimib'er 'were sold at up lo £19 10s, We"quote: Superior young draughts, £53 tp £55; extra good prize horses, £36 to £62; medium draught mares and geldiligs, £37 to £18; aged <]o, £23 tp £3G; upstaiiding carriage horse-), f3o' to £35: matched carriage pairs, £70 to £85: good■ spring-van hbrsfs, £30 to £38; milk-cart and order-cart horses, £21 to £30; tram sorts, £15 to £02; useful liaclcs, £18 to ,-625,' aged and weedy, £0 <0 £10. 1

INVESTMENT SHOCKS. The following ute Saturday's quotes for investment stocks offered on 'Change: — National Bank—Buyers SSs '6tl, sellers 91s. National Insurance—Buyers 225, sellers 22s 4?, d. Wesiport Coal—Buyers £5 355, sellers £5 16s. New Zealand Drug—Buyers 495, sellers 50s. New Zealand Refrigenting—Buyers 30s. Westports show a tendency to firm at the figures quoted.

J. JTewburgh Lawson (late Burr. Le.iry, and Co.), stock and sharebroker, Stock Exchange Building, Water street, Dunedin. Investment shares «nd debentures a specialty. Communications re investments invited, and full particulars of ill stocks on application.