COMMERCIAL.

Otago Witness, Issue 2429, 3 October 1900, Page 34

COMMERCIAL.

The customs revenue for the past month on goods cleared for consumption amounted to £32,798 0s 4d. The beer duby for the month came to £1572 16s 3d. During the cor-

responding month of la^t year the duty on gooclb amounted to £35,353 5s 3d, and the beer duty to £16*2 0s lid. Nelson Brof. received tlie following cable from the CC. and D. Company, London, yesterday. — -"Frozen meat market: Prices unchanged." i

A Wellington telegram says: — "The captain of a steamer trading to South Africa writes that the best cargo that a vessel can take there is potatoes, which are fetching £2,0 per ton. Butter, cheese, and bacon command good prices, but all the oats of the world seem to have been dumped into the country, and it does neb pay to land them there."

During the quarter ended September 30, 1900, the revenue collected at the Dunedin custom houpe on goods cleared for consumption amounted to £122,133 19s 4d. The beer duty for the quarter came to £5123 Is 3d. During the corresponding quarter of last year £110,200 13s 9d was collected as duty on goods, and £4376 19s Id as beer duty.

At a meeting of the Mutual Help Terminating Building Society, held in the Coffee Pa^ce on Friday, a free loan appropriation was drawn, the successful number being cluster 95, containing two members — one in Mornington and one in Port Chalmers.