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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13697, 13 September 1906, Page 6

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Daily Tiriifcs Office, Wednesday wtening. The amount of revenuo collected at the dtiiiodin Custom House to-day on goods ok'ai'od for consumption was £1252 9s 2d.

COMMEKOIAL CABLEGRAMS. LONDON, September 11. Tho total quantity of wheat and floitf afloat for tho United Kingdom is 1,793.001) quarters, and tor tho Continent 1,470,000 quarters. Tile Atlantic shipments were 287,000 quarters. Stock} and shared -. —Banks—Australasia, £9S 10s; Now South Wales. £43 10s; Union, £32 10s; a!! others unchanged. Copper, £86 15s. Silver, 3Ud por ounce. PHOPERTY SALES. A large, number of people attended at- the rooms of Messrs Park, Reynolds, aud Co. yesterday, when that tiroi submitted at anction various properties. The first lot offered was oil account of the trustees in the citato ot the late J. B. Mason, and consisted of a block of land -fronting the Main road, Norfli-Gast Valley, and containing 9a 2r 87p. Bidding started at £500, ami rose to £950, ai which price it was knocked down to Mr Spedding. Tho next property offered was that in tha estate of the lato Mrs XJre, situated at Egiiuton The land contains la 2r lOp. and on it is erechsl a modern house of seven rooms. Bidding started at £1500, and proceeded until

ii reached £>100, at which price the propotly \«is passed in, the vendor's being £•23(10. Negotiations for Hie silo of tin's property privately at that figure are now going on. A Church Board lease, fronting the 'Main South road, .Corisbroek. with modem sixreohied house thereon, was knocked down for £Cfla. . The Perpetual Trustees, Estate. and Agency Company yesterday, disposed oE by public auction a city freehold property ii( lleriot row, being part of section 57, block XIX. l)nnedin, oh which i;; erected a seven-roomed house. The piitchase price was £330, and the purchaser Mr E. F. Lawrence. Messrs Wright Stephenson, and Co. (Ltd.) reiiort having sold) on account of Mr J. A. liodie (Foyicnt; at a satisfactory figure, his properly ne-\r Lmn-iVn, l-.t-inj* feoiiori 7, Black Swamp, Hoi'.onni, comtirifiiig 1118 acres 3 roods 7 pblet This is a. piece of good sheep country in its )i?,fnr4l state, and the purchaser (Mr W. M. llailes) cannot but do well with it. The. Inglowond Oil and Prospecting Company, with a capita! of £5000, in &"> shares, has been fully subscribed, chiefly in Tarahaki.