COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19, 6 December 1861, Page 2

COMMERCIAL.

!.\y the Fort Regulations, fourteen days is aiicvrccl to consignees to pass their Entries at the Hasten House, and our attention has been called i■' the great inconvenience occasioned by con-.-.ig'uces delaying' or forgetting to pass their en-.ir/t-s. There are several vessels now laying in ihe bay which have been ■ seriously hindered in discharging from this cause. A& matters of this kind are calculated to create an unfavourable inr^ossion of the port, we trust, that the meri:, Ki;:'lrt community only need their attention ■'•'Kwii to this subject, to have the evil complained of rectified. The Customs Revenue for the month of November amounts to £12,933 L2s. 3d., and the rovt-.iiue for the corresponding period in 1860 was i';.V;;&9 Us. lid. The amount of export duty on uold for the month of November is £9,272 Is. yd,, arnl the total amount received from Ist A riff list to 30th November, £14,655 7s. 10s. The amount received for jetty dues for No■voriibur is £84 12s. £d., but a large further sum i« outstanding. t Two thousand more troops are to be sent out ro New Zealand from England. "We are glad to observe that private enterprise is lighting its way in the interior. An advertisement appears in this day's issue, calling for lenders for 75,000 bricks at the Waihola Lake. -round fit for the purpose to be provided for the contractor. In a few months fine brick warehouses will be seen where before a wooden tene^ruent; was a, rarity. There should be no lack of work shortly for those requiring employment. We observe that the Government has issued notices calling for tenders for a variety of public works, including the following : —For building a new pier 900 feet long and 32 feet wide on the line of Jetty-street ; ibr driving in a thousand piles, for extending ihe jetty at Pelichet Bay ; for repairing the Anderson's Buy Road ; for fencing certain public reserves ; for deepening the channel and other improvements on the Waihola Lake ; and for erecting a suspension bridge! at W< jst Taieri.