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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13196, 1 February 1905, Page 4

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Daily Times Office. .Tuesday evening. The amount of revenue collected at tho Dunedin Custom House lodiiv on /i.mls cleared for consumption was £1627 8s lOd. CUSTOMS RETURNS. Customs duty on goods cleared locally for consumption during the past month amounted to £44.G8S 17s 9ct; beer -duty to 42308 9 S 4fl; and gold exported to 17,9-Ksz, valued at .C 73.175. For tlio corresponding month; of last year tho net customs duties amounted to lD,f-50 3", S;1 ■ beer duty to f'M!) 13s M; and gold exported to 8720z, valued at

GORE STOCK SALE.' (Fboh Ouk Okx Correbpondent.l

GORE; January 31. There wa.s a fair attendance at to-day's stock sale, when about 2500 sheep wore offered. Prices in most cases were easier, ewes find wethers being slightly, back, but good lambs sold wdl, Pat. wethers brought from 17s Gd to 18a lOd; fat ewes, up to 18s; lambs, from 10s M to 15s 4d; two-iooth Aethers, lfe to ISs; four, six, Rnd""bight-tootli ewes, up to 19s lil; aged ewes and lambs, 10s Gd (ail counted). Caltie lyiro ' a!me>3t unsaleable. Three-year-old steers brought up to £5 2s; two-year-old steers and heifers, £3 8s; onc and a-half-year steers and heifers, is 15s. : TIMARU WOOL SALES. TIMARU, January 31. | At the third wool sale of the season, held here last night, 4000 bales were submitted. Crossbreds were dov;n Id and lialfbrcds an compared with last sale. General prices: Super halfhred. 9M to medium, 3d to Bid; inferior, 8d to 9d; crossbred and tlireequarterbred, super, BJd to 9d; medium, 7Jd to Bjd; inferior, id to 7}d; merino, super, 9}d to BJd; medium, Bjd to DJd; inferior. 71d to BAd; merino, locks, 31d.to.4idi; pieces, 5d to CJd; 'bsiiies, od to 7d. NEW ZEALAND ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY. ' ' An Auckland message slates that the annual report of the. directors of tile New Zealand Accident Insurance Company shows £8168 to the credit of profit anci loss account. A. dividend of 10 per cent, for the year is recommended. At the annual meeting the report anil balance sheet, together with the resolutions embodied, were unanimously adopted. The retiring directors (Messrs T. Buddie and (•'. IMiodee) and auditors (Messrs C. A. Jonas and S. 11. Matthews) were re-elected. A. vote of thanks lo I lie directors andstpff was moved by Mr John Callnstn, who made sonio felicitous remarks on the prosperous state of the company. The motion was'carried unanimously. • SALE OP A HOTEL. Tile Perpetual Trustees.'' Estate, and Agency Company .instructed by the executors of the lute Ji. Harris, offered at iioou yesterday tho freehold nf the Victoria Hotel, at the corner of Cumberland and St. Andrew streets, together v.-ith a five-roomed cottage, which stands mi a- block CGU x G3ft. There was. a largo adcmlanee of buyers, and competition was very Bidding storied at i2OOO, r.nd advanced by .taO and £101) bids to £3050, at which figure it was knocked down to Jfrs Btivns, of this city. < The directors of the Dnnedin and Kaikorai Tram Company have declared a dividend at tho rate nt G per cent, per annum for the half year i-mled January 31. The dividend will be payable on the 20th inst. A message from Hamilton states that an important flax property has just changed hands, Messrs Mitchell and Walsh having s:ul 3G2-3 acres of flax swamp, with hull and other improvements, at £3 an aero. The properly was bought 15 months ago for £1 las per acre. I'OST 01!FK;i! notices. Mails close at Ilia Chief Post Office, Dnnedin, subjcct lo any necessary alterations, as under:— , : Overland, Northern Ports, Christchurch, and intermediate offices, daily, 0.30 a.m. Late letters, 7.10; also on (he mail van up to 8 a.m. For Second Express for Pajmerston, Oamaru, Waimate, Timaru, Ashbunon, and Cliristchnrch, at 1145 p.m. Also, Northern Ports, at 12.45 p.m.- on Saturday. For (Ireymouth, Hokilika, and Reef,ton, Monday and Thursday, at 12.15 p.m. For South Express Trains at 8.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Late-fee letters must bear, in addition to the ordinary postage, Id. THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), FEBRUARY 1. ForLyttclton and Christchurch, per Mokoia, at 1.89 p.m. Late loiters guard's van Port train 2.30 p.m. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2. For Lyltelton and Christchurch, per Waikare, at 1.30 p.m. Late letters guard's van Port train G. 30 p.m. FRIDAY, i'iSBRUARY 3. 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