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Otago Daily Times, Issue 3282, 13 August 1872, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Monday Evening. The amount of Customs Kevenue received to-day on goods entered for consumption was a« follows, viz. :— £ s. d. £ «. d. Hraudy ... 84 8 11 Tea ... 25 18 0 "Whisky ... 72 5 4 Sugar ... 02 11 9 Ruin ... 19 C 5 Coffee ... 37 8 9 Wine ... 24 2 4 Currants...ll6 13 5 Beer ...10G 0 3 Candles ...133 14 10 Kerosene... 49 0 0 Drapery ... G5 3 0 Tobacco ... 93 10 0 Sundries...s22 2 9 Total ... £1412 5 9

MeßHrs M'liANPitEss, Hki'BURN, and Co. report that they held, at their Rooms yesterday, a sale by unction of a large number of freehold and leasehold city sections. The attendance was very numerous, and the greater proportion of the sections offered were disposed of at prices which show a very considerable advance on their last Kales of similar property. The f Mowing are the prices obtained for Captain Crosses sections:—Section G4, block 34, corner of Howe and Cumberland streets, £275. Sections 65 and 66, aame block, and fronting Cumberland street, £170 each. Section 88, same block, corner of Howe and Castle streets, £225. Sections 69 and 70, same block, fronting Cumberland street, £100 each. Sections 72 and 73, same block, fronting Duke street, with buildings erected thereon, and subject to a five years' lease at a ground-rent of £35 per annum, £3^o. Sections 74 and 75, same block, fronting Castle street, £160 each. Sections 46 and 47, block XXI., fronting Cumberland street, £120 each. Section 67, block X.VL, fronting Caatle street, £170. Sections 18 and 19, block XXXII., fronting Queen street, £52 10s each.—Total, £2355.

Messrs M'Lani>kk.s.s, HErnuns, and Co. alao report having sold section 53, block 31, fronting Duke street, at £S6. For Mr P. C. Neill's section in Bond street, £1300 was offered, and passed in. For Mr Wilkinson's sections 12, 13, and 14, block ■40, adjoining Messrs Briscoe's iron warehouse, in Bond street, £820 was offered, and passed in. For sections IS and part of 19, block 42, opposite Messrs Ilobinson and Co.'s stores, £500 was offered, and also passed in, the owners in both instances holding for higher prices. A Corporation lease of 14 years, for the section adjoining Mrs M'llroy's, was sold%t the upset price of 35s per foot of 404 e°fc frontage to Princes street. A small leasehold property in FilIcul Btreet, being part of section 14, block 17, with the cottages erected thereon, sold for £47. A small freehold property at Caversham, fronting the Main Road, with a cottage erected on it, sold for £03. The freehold sections, in Barrfield and Greenwich Park were all withdrawn, the biddings not coming up quite to owner's reserves.