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West Coast Times and Observes Office, Saturday Evening. The duties collected at the Customs today amounted to £106 1 5s 4d. A s. d. Sundries 106 15 4 No gold.
We have nothing to report this week. Trade has been steady, but not brisk. Quotations are firm, but without change.
Mr Richard Reeves, auctionesr, reports Business quiet during the past week ; no noticeable change in the quotations of any staples. Flour and oats maintain the advance quoted last week, but there is a want of speculative demand ; buyers mostly supplying immediate wants. Sales by auction of general merchandise may be set down as nil. A few sales of produce on the wharf having only been effected, and at prices that must leave a heavy loss to importers. I regret to say that property seems to be rapidly declining
in value, in fact, sales can onlyT)e effected at ruinous prices. In furniture, 6ales are pretty lively, and for a good class of goods prices are well maintained. Little doing in mining shares. I have had offers mostly coming up io owners' expectations, for shares in the Band of Hope, Ross ; Victorian Company, Kanierij -and Okarito Gold Mining Company.
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West Coast Times, Issue 1252, 27 September 1869, Page 2
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198COMMERCIAL. West Coast Times, Issue 1252, 27 September 1869, Page 2
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