COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star, Issue 10903, 11 April 1899, Page 3

COMMERCIAL.

The amount of revenue collected at the Customhouse oh goods cleared for consumption to-day was £1,31317s 6d. The successful lessees of the principal railway refreshment rooms, for the' three' years ending March 31, 1902, are: Auckland. Mrs C'M'Lieod, £62; Mercer, T. & Hallett, £200; Waipakurau, P. Gow, £120; Woodville, T. Fairhurst, £007; Aramoho, Mrs B. Fleming, £273; Palmerston North, Mr W. Freeman, £400; Kaitoke. Mrs E. Broadbent, £150; Christchurch, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Palmerston South, and Dunedin, T. K. Quill, £2,500. MINING NOTES. The secretary of the Nokomai Hydraulic Sluicing Company, Limited, reports 3210z 16dwt 20gr gold for the month of, March. RAILWAY RETURNS. The railway returns for the four-weekly period ended March 4 show that the North Island yielded £49.953 against £47,169 for the same period of 1898, and the South Island £77,676 j against £70,904; The respective expenditures were £31,089 and £38,844. The detailed returns for the Hurunm-Bluff section for the same period are : 1899. 1898. Passengers— Total. Total First class 35,016 33,380 Second class ... 192,590 174,237 Total 227,606 207,617 Season tickets ... 2.567 2,226 No. So. Parcels, etc. ... « ~. 25£735 24,830 No. No. Goods 197,886 181,798 Tons. Tons. Ohaff, lime, etc 2sß 3.814 Wool 9,311 ?i395 Firewood 1,506 1,746 Timber ' ... 10628 9,899 Grain 27,180 29,377 Merchandise 26,901 26,2tf Minerals ... 30,934 32,289 Total ... 109,418 110,167 Revenue— £ .A»>. Passengers ... 23,401 19,736 Parcels, lugga{e, and mails ... 2,943 2,659 Goods ... 41,163 39,237 Miscellaneous ... ... 789 614 Hants and commission ... 633 688 Tot 15... ... ... m 931 £62,835 A SUCCESSFUL COMPANY. The members of the Mutual Life Association of Austi alasia no doubt will be very gratified at the splenc id report and balance-sheet which was passed at the meeting held at Sydney yesterday. New premiums, renewal premiumv interest, total income, a> d. accumulated funds all show substantial

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rPOSTOKIIIOK MOTIOBB. p^

Mails close at the Chief Fpst pfflce/ (subject fp art neoessary;alterattpßß), as moan— Overlandi Worth, daily, 10.80 a.m. Late/let * ter*. 10.45; also on the mail Van up to 11 a.m Books and newspaper 10 sum..: • ... . Late-fee letters must bear, to, add-on to the ordinary poatage-ld for tiiland letters, -2d for letters for Australia'and the South Sea Islands, and 2}d for all other places. ~ Thursday, April 13., ■ , , : For Northern Ports and' Australian Colonies (except Tasmania).—Per Tarawera, at 3 p.m.

Friday, APRIL 14. " '„ . For Lyttelton aud Ohristcburch.—Per Te Anau, at 2 p.m. -'

BAN FRANOISOO MAIL SBRVIOB.

Friday, April 14. For northern Ports, Samoa, steadwloh Islano>, United States of America, Canada, South America, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10 a.m. , Money orders at 4 p.m., registered correspondence at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 13th. Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m. The above mail will close at the brancn I*obv Offices, North Dunedin and South Dunedin—for, money orders and registered letters at 6 p.m. on the 13th: letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at sa.m. on the 14th. At the Port Chalmers Office, »t 8.45 a.m. on the 14th; money orders at 4 p.m.; registered lotters at 6 p.m. on the 13th. The above mail wul be due in London on 17th May.

Mails for Cromarty, Puyaegur, and Te Oneroa will close at Invercargill on the 13th, at 12.30 p.m. Mails for South Africa, per Moravian, from Melbourne, 19th April. ' ... Mails for Fiji, per Upolu, will close at Auckland on the 26tb, at 4 p.m. ' . Mails for Tonga. Samoa, and Fiji, per Tavmnl. will close at Auckland on the 3rd May, at 4 p.m. Mails for South Africa, per WarrnamboQl, will close at Melbourne|sth|May.Zl!'."T . i~r On and afterfFriday" 7th7mails foriPatearoa, Hamilton, will be despatched from this officelonirFridays,jinstead of Saturdays. iiWiH»»«B»-> ~ (Signed) Edm. Cook, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, April 11, 1899.