NOTICE OF MAILS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 264, 6 November 1868, Page 2

NOTICE OF MAILS.

Local Mails.. For Appleby, Upper and Lower Moutere, Motueka, and Riwaka — Close every Monday and Thursday, at 8.30, a.m.; arrive every Tuesday and Friday, at 4 p.m. Also, for Motueka, per steamer as opportunity offers. For Collingwood, Motupipi; Takaka, and Slateford — By every opportunity, per steamer or sailing boat. For Stoke, Richmond, Hope, Spring Grove, Wakefield, and- Foxhill— Close at Chief Post Office daily at 2.30, p.m. ; arrive at Chief Post Office daily, at 1 1 o'clock, a.m. For Tadmor — Close every Friday, at 2.30, p.m. ; arrive every Monday, at 11 a.ni. For Waimea-west— Close every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at ,2.30 p.m.; arrive every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 1 1 a.m. For Wakapuaka — Close every Wednesday and Saturday, at 2.30, p.m.; arrive every Wednes day and Saturday, at. 11 a.m. For Havelock, Blenheim, and Picton, overland — Close on the 15th and 30th of every month, at 430 p.m.; arrive on 'the 14ih and 29th. For West-port, Charleston, Brighton, and St. Kilda, per stuaiuer as opportunity offers. The Melbourne Age says that the steamer Great Britain, in the 20 trips she has made from that port to Liverpool, has taken from Victoria the enormous amount of 1,659,0960z. of gold. In her first voyage home (3rd January, 1852) she took 107.0210z., aud in her last (Bth October, 1868) 62,0870z., the average being 82,954 oz. per trip. During the same period she has taken altogether 8,606 passengers, or an average of 430 each voyage. - Both the quantity of gold and the number of passengers taken the last trip, it appears, were under the average, the gold being 0n1y'62,0870z., and the passengers 350. The failing-off in the number of passengers this month is to be accounted for owing to the repugnance Australians have to landing iv England in the depth of winter. The Independent of the 23rd ult. says: — From a reliable London cource we have been informed that the Panama line is monthly assuming larger proportions as regards the numbers of letters for New Zealand and Australia transmitted by it. On the 2nd of September, there were despatched for New Zealand no less than 3cwt. of letters, and for Sydney 2cwt. It is computed that on an average three letters, thus sent, will weigh one ounce, at ■which rate this would give about 16,000 letters for New Zealand, aud 11,000 for Sydney, or 27,000 letters in all. This alone proves the great importance of the Panama line to New Zealand and Australia, and speaks volumes in favor of its maintenance. The Bankers' Magazine has an interesting article on hanking in New Zealand, from which we extract the following: — The branch banks of the colony have from their own resources been able to transact large operations in gold, and to stimulate pastoral and agricultural pursuits. They have not been without losses, sometimes indeed heavy and disastrous, but the long experience in the other colonies and great ability of management have carried them successfully through all the trying epochs of New Zealand, by enabling them to establish a business, which with highly remunerative rates, justified certain risks which are almost inevitable to the position they occupy. There has been a great decline in sheep farming, not only from the fall in wool, but the superabundant supply of animals for the markets of the colony, which have especially affected some of the largest customers of banks; besides which it has been no easy task at all times satisfactorily to conduct financial •affairs amidst local wars, a greatly varying expenditure on the part of Governments, and an import market frequently disturbed hy gluts, by a migratory population, and by values subject to enormous fluctuations. Although banking has been generally prosperous, certain counteracting features show that the course of business has not always been smooth or successful.