COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 10399, 21 August 1897, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse on goods cleared for consumption to-day was £58119s 7d.

Mr Snodgrass, of the Blenheim branch, succeeds the late Mr M’Owen as manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Ashburton.

It Is officially announced that ns the whole of the assets in Walter Guthrie and Co., Limited, are subject to the claims of the debenture-holders there will be no surplus available for unsecured debts.

THE LABOR MARKET.

Mr Skene reports:—The life-giving rains have eome, and welcome. It would bo well worth a trip to the country now to see farmers and gold miners smiling once again. Town interests soon follow suit. The demand for country people is Improving, and wages keep good for the right sort.

MINING NOTES.

An Auckland telegram says “ The Haurakl Ymne, Coromandel, return is more satisfactory, less ore having yielded more gold this month 6390z realising £1,757. and this being obtained from 300 tons.”

POST OFFICE NOTICES,

Mails close at the Chief Post Office. Dunedin (subject to any necessary alterations), as under;—

Overland, North, daily, 10.30 a.m. Late letters, mail van, 11 a.m.

Saturday, August 21. Mails close for Bluff and Invercargill, per Bakaia, at 8 p.m.

Tuesday. August 24. For Lyttelton, Christchurch, and Northern Forte.—Per Tarawera, at 1.15 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 1.25 p.m. Wednesday. August 25. For Lyttelton, Christchurch. Northern Ports, New South Wales, and Queensland.—Per Waikare, at 1.15 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 1.25 p.m.

Thursday, August 26. For Southland, Australian Colonies (via Hobart), India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements. South Africa, Mediterranean Ports, Continent of Europe United Kingdom, etc. —Per Wakatipu, at 2.15 p.m.

Money orders (for Australian Colonies only) registered letters, books, and newspapers, at 1.15 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 2.25 p.m. Parcels post mails for the Australian Colonies will close at 3 p.m. on the 24th. A supplementary mail will be made up at 3.30 P-m. '(overland, to connect with the Wakatipu at the Bluff). Letters for the United Kingdom must be specially addressed. Friday, August 27. For Lyttelton and Christchurch.—Per Te Anau, at 2.15 p.m. Late letters, C.P.0., at 2.25 p.m.

Mails for Straits Settlements, United Kingdom, and South Africa, per Westralia, will close at Auckland on Monday, 23rd inst, at 6 p.m. Mails for Tonga. Samoa, and Fiji, per Taviuni, will close at Auckland on the 2oth inst., at 4 p.m. A post office, to ha called Pukepeto, has been opened at Manuka Island with a bi-weekly mail service from Balclutha.

■ (SUned) Edm. Cook. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, August 21,1887.