COMMERCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 1916, 30 October 1890, Page 18

COMMERCIAL.

Millers' lines have ruled during the week as follows .—-Flour, £9 5 to £9 15s per ton; oatmeal, £8 to £8 10s per ton ; chaff. 35s to 40b per ton ; bra»i, £2 lCs per ton ; pollard, £3 10s per ton ; pearl barley, £16 10s per ton. On Weduesday next we shall publish our usual summary for trausmlssioa by San Prauciaco mail.

Mr Wastneyß, of Nelson, has purchased Brandon Hall station from the trustees of the late Hon. John Johnston.

At the sale of W. Postlethwaite's Raukapuka estate at Geraldlne. on Friday, 1366 acres, in nine lots, were sold at from £6 10a to £15 15s per acre, the average being £13 Ua, aid the to al realised £18,528. At the meeting last week of the creditors 01 S. J. Evans, chemist, Naeeby and Nenthorn, resolutions were carried to the effect (hat the debtor receive his furniture aod the creditors waive any claim on the piano on condition that the debtor transfers both to his wife ; that if the debtor, within eight dvpfl, pays to the assignee the sum of £25 in ca9h, and gives an approved bill for £25 payable three months a'ter date, and a further approved bill for £50 payable Bix montha after date, he receive back the stock-in-trade, book debts, and the equity of the Naseby and Nenthorn sections.

Mr John Allan, of Springvale, has purchased Thurlby Domain, Wakatipu, the property of the late Mr Arndt, for the sum of £3100. The property, whioh ia a magnificpnbone, contains 450 acres, highly improved, the dwelling, cow byres, stable 3, and ail outbuildings being'of the moat subtantial sharaoter. — Dunstan Times.

We are Informed that to get over the difficulty of the high duty on Pond's butter boxes in Viotorla, the boxes are now made there from enamelled timber imported from Messrs Pond and Co.'i factory, Auckland. The latter are running day and night to overtake orders, and the business now being done in New South Wales and Victoria in the boxes ii enormous, and increases yearly. The Victorian agents report taking large orders, but they cannot overtake the demand, and a lot of people wanting the boxes ire disappointed.