TJNION BANK OP AUSTRALIA, UNLIMITED LIABILITY. Oapitai: £1,260,000. Rkserve Fund : £400,000. LONDON OFFICE: NO. 1 BANK BUILDINGS, LOTHBUIIY, E.O.

ThU Bank bsnti DrafU on LONDON OFFICE and iti Tkrioxu Branch*! in NEW ZEALAND and the AUSTRALIAN OOLONIBS, and ha« Afenti throughout th« UNITED KINGDOM; alio, in INDIA, CHINA, SOUTH AFRICA, MAURITIUS, MANILLA, and BATAVIA. Its AMERICAN AGENTS are— BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERICA at NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, and the principal Towns of CANADA. The LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO BANK, and Messrs. HELLMANN BROS. & CO., SAN FRANCISCO. And Messrs. FREDERICK HUTH, GRUMNG, & CO., VALPARAISO. AMERICAN DOLLARS PURCHASED.

LOW & MOTION'S PRIOES CUKRKNT. ( Wholesale.) ' Buperflno Flour, Silk-dressed, per ton of ' 2,0001b £17 0 0 | New Mills Brand, Silk-dressed „ .. 15 0 0 Wheat Meal .. .. 15 0 0 Second! Flour „ .. 10 0 0 Shurpi 600 Bran, per bushel of 201b. . ■ „ . . 0 12 Maizo, per busbel of GOlb. 0 4 6 Oati, per bushel of 401b. . . . . . 0 3 6

v^ttool, flax, a\ d kauri gum. The Undersigned are C»Bh Buyeri of Wool, well dreued Flax, »nd K»uri Gum, or ther will make liberal Caih Advuucei on ihlpmenti consigned to their f riendi ia London or New York. MUST & CO.

/^ITY INCREASED TAXATION. A Public Meeting of .Ratepayers will be held on Thursday, the Btb instant, at tlio Carlton Academy, to petition the General Assembly against passing " Tl»« W»ter Loan Bill." Chairman of the Ratepayer!' Association. August 0, 1872.