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Otago Witness, Issue 1795, 17 April 1886, Page 15

COMMERCIAL

The revonue collected at the Dimedin Customhouse during the past w.-ek on goods cleared for consumption, amou ted to £0485 fc-s ild. Tho beer luty amounted to JE2I2 13s Id, and the gold duty to ei-VtlSslld.

Messrs Dalgoty and Co. have received the following cablegram irom their head office, I ondon, dated April «:— "Wool s<des continue dull and rather ower. There is a «enerai decline in prices compared >vith January sales of 10 to 15 per cent., it being nore pronounced for ill line wools and all crossbred debcripl.iw.-s. Tallow : Market very dull and tending downwards."

The Mutu.il Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited; offered for sale by auction, on the Bth .ust., 454 acres of land at Otakia, together with an eight-roomed d\\ elling-houbo thereon The property was disuobed of to the mortgagee for J&oOO.

Messrs John lteid and sjou report the sale of allotments l') 8 and 1 lit, extension o( Calkin, with dwel-ling-house, &c. then on, at a satisfactory price. Last week (50 head of cattle were slaughtered and frozen Jor export at Belfast on account of Mr John liigg. of Longbeach. This is the iirst, lot ot beef frozen for Beveral months. The Himutal.a will begin uo load Irozen meat next week, and will take buef, iamb, and mutton equal to 8500 caicasses ol mutton. The Coplie, which will follow, is to take about 10,500. Since the reopening ot the Uellast- Works r.hey ha\e been freezing at the very high rate of 5)00 sheep and lambs a day.— Christ church l'rebb.

The draught entire Kynw Tom, who travelled the Palinerstoii district two seasons ago, was sold i-e-jentlyin Melbourne foi :Jl'> guineas,.

Our Tim.iru correspondent writes that Met-srs Jonas and JRoum and J. A. Graeio aud Co. held a very important sale of horses at Washdj ke on Tuesday, over -iOU being entered. Them was a large attendance ol buyers, including sonu 1 irom Sydney, Dimedin, Uhristchur h. iiu . elsou nerc. 'Prices were low, but very lair considering the dem'essed state ol the Colony, newly all offered finding purchasers at prices s.at ' - l actory to vendors. The local iclrigerating works have completed piegaring 3000 sheep ior the ship Lady Jocelyn at Port Iha'aners. Sinne 5000 sheepare now being frozen lor the steamer Tainui. The Lady Joeelyn's sheep have lieen forwarded by rail, and the Tainui'b portion will also be sent in a similar manner. Oaniaru Mail.

Messrs Mort and Co. report under date April 3 :—: — VVhcit : No New South Wales available. Victorian •md Adelaide, 4s -Id to 4s 6d ; New Zealand, 3s fld to Is 3d. Oats, 2s Id to 2s (sd. Bran and pollard, Is 2d bushel. Maize : Old, 3s 3d to 3a -id ; new, to 3s per bushel.

The British and New Zealand Mortgage and Agency Company have received the following wool telegram from Messrs Helmuth Schwartze and Co., dated London, 10th inst. :—'• Prices on the whole well maintained, but not better. Tone i"b tinner. Catalogued up to date about 180,000 bales, of which withdrawn about 15 per cent., taken for export about- 50 per cent."

Tho New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Oompuny (Limited) report having re eived the following telegram from their London office, dated April ll:—"0 :— " tjince the opening of the wool sales the market hns been steady, aud competition by both Home and foreign buyers is fairly active. The following decline in prices has taken place : —Medium and inferior greasy, from £d to Id per lb ; superior greasy (scoured and washed), id per lb; fine crossbred medium, £d per lb. For course crossbred tho market is easier, and in lambswool it is unchanged, except for faulty lots, which have, declined from *d to Id per lb. The total quantity catalogued to date is 171,000 bales, of which 25,000 have been withdrawn."