Customs Revenue.

Otago Witness, Issue 1645, 2 June 1883, Page 14

Customs Revenue.

The following revenue was received at the Custom bouse, Dunedin, during the week ending Wednesday last:— £ «. d Thursday „ .. .. mi Friday .. „ « 1717 17 3 Saturday .. .. . 4(2 19 4 Monday _ .. „ 23 2 19 1 Tuesday .. .. .. 1775 1 2 Wednesday „ .. ... i 052 0 3 Total £8140 17 1 Tho grain market bai not altered during the week. Prime mi ling wheat is readily saleiblo at 4s 2d to 4s 3d pt-r bu»h 1; while for a very choice sample 4s 4d per bushel is obtainable. Medium aualitieß meat with no inquiry. Oats are in bri-k demand, Bales being only lumttd by the diffic )ty in flnding freight-room for shipping. Prime milling m dis^o-ed of at Is lOd to Is lid por bushel, and bright Seed at Is 9d to la lOd per bushel. Malting barley is in demand, and prime samples can be placed at up to fis per bushel. €ornsacks are quiet, but valnes are a shade firmer, 7a 8d per' dozen being now the lowest quotation Jor Ordinary line?. Messrs Bastings, Leary, and Co. offered at aucMon on Saturday a quarter-acre of land, with four-roomed houso, fionting Macandrew road, Sou h Dunedin. Mr William Mathesjn w&> th ; puichaser, at £28 ■.

A dairy farm ot 20 acres, btinar part of section 25, block J, Peninsula district, was offered for sale at auction on Satuiday by Mr Montagu Pytn. The bidding Btarb-d at £ 6 ler a re, and at £31 per acre the propetty was passed in.

A meeting of cri ditors in the e'tate^ of M'Landregs Hepburn, and Co was held on Friday forenoon at 'he Supreme Court, to as-ent to the deed of assignment made by them in favour of George Koss and J H. Kilgour as trustees for the benefit of the crenitors. There was a large representaion of the creditors preaent ; Mr George Turnbull in the chair. A resolution was mov, d by Mr Robert Wilson, and seconded by Mr H. J. Maclean, " That the deed be a sented to," which was carried unanimously. A similar resolution as regards Mr Hepburn's personal eatate was also carried unanimously.

A meeting of the creditors of Messrs Thomson, Strang. and Co., drauers, was held Ou Friday morning at the office of Metsrs Sargood, Son, and twen. M' H. YOl n*, of that firm, occupied the chair, and the c were nin» gentlemen present. It was stated that the firm's liabilities were £12,161 93 sd, ot which £1616 is due to Home firms, and that the assets were £14,703 138 6d. ieavii gan estimated snri lus c f £2642 4s. It was agreed ihar. the firm bhould assign their estate to Messrs Youn* ({•"a good, Son, and £nen) and t>tatham (Butterwonh Brothers) on behalf of the creditors.

We hear that Mr Robt. Oawn has purchased from Mr P. D. Ke igh (of Moi Flat Eitatc) -eveial of the best of hin Cb de-dale ft ck, am'ine6t them the c lo brated imported mare Scotch Annie and four of her progeny— two of them by Ivai hoe (imported from Scotland), and two of them by the renowned ttallion Salisbury. Salisbury cost 15U0 guineas in the Home Country.

The British and New Zealand Mortgage and Aeencv Company (Limited) ye-terday received the following telegram from Me-srs Helmuth Schwartze and Co., dated 22nd inut : - '♦ T ere is an increase in the animation. Prices aie firmer, and are oh a par with average of last series, .scoured rather easier Price* for scoured and crossbred, as compared with last eason, are Jd lower."

The Teport of tho Directors of the Otago and Southland Investment Company (Limited) for the year onding 31st January, 1883, contains the following clauses ; —

" With the issue of 25,000 Fhares on 31-t May last, at 10s premium per share, the paid-up capital of the Company is now £150,000 and the reserve fund hatbeen increased from £60,000 to £72,600 by th addition of £12,500, amount of the premium received on these shares

.''Deducting the £7500 interim dividend paid in November, there remains for distribution tho sum of £14.773 16s Ud, which the Uirectors rec mmend to be applied as follows, viz. : £7600 in payment of a dividend for the half-year at tho rate of 10 per cent, per annum, £3760 in payment of a bonus of 2J per cent making a distribution for the year of 12J per cent., free of income tax ; £-'500 to the rese ye fund, thereby raising it to £75,000, equal to half the amount of the paid-up capital of the Company ; and the balance of £1023 168 lid to be carried forward to next account."