CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 311, 18 December 1862, Page 4

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

The A rgus says:—

Our files of Cape of Good Hope papers extend to the 9th ultimo. We take the latest market report from the South African Advertise?' : " There has been an increased amount of business doing this week; in every,department ofOtrade. Our import market has been rnove animated than for some time past, there being a idSre' genei al demand for imported goods; and. of many articles the market-is getting very bare, - *•■ There is hardly a bag of Rio coiffee left, and 90s perlOOlb is the price now asked for a few bags still on hand, Stoeks of rice are very-low; there is no browa rice left, and but very little white. Tliere ias

been a great demand for wool bags, and the market has bee'n nearly cleared of a 1! available parcel?. " Thi demand for cotton pieca =roo!s still continue?, -and very- la;ge-purchases have been male an this market during the past w^ek. "536 bags Java coffee, landed damaged, -ex Minister' Thorbecke," sold at 84s~ cwt: 398 ba*s Adelaide flour, landed damaged ex Ann Sanderson and-ThomasJirownT-sold-byauctiou-at-froin^Sos to 3*? per bag of 2001b; 66 bags wheat sold at from 32s t0.33? per 2001b. -i : ....-.■■ . irThe folio wing have been ibhe principal' arrivals this week :—Amateur, from Glasgow, with coals and sundriesj. Fortuna, from Londou, with a general cargo; Marathon, from "Sunderiand, and Alethia from.Newcastle, with coals; Norma,. Alexander, and Ingeborg, from Baltic ports, with deals; and EngelBret, from Bremen with sundries.

•nSfo'sales dT^eals'are^^ being made, and cargoes now arriving are being landed and stored'' We have Mauritius papers to the 23rd October. Freights were ruling at L3 15s to L3 17s 6d for London, and L4 for order, wi Mi bottoms very scarce. The commercial news generally is unimwtnnf

"VT OTICE,—An Adjourned Meeting of'the Town -Ll Board of Dunedin will be held, at Ihe Board Boom, on Friday. 19th inst., at 12 o'clock, when the following; Appeals against the Assessment wi 1 b J considered :— * 475 C. C. Schaw 1354, 13 >7 Frank Chase 770 Thos. Wilkinsen 1182, 1452 Hy. Pe'ling " ' 1959 Chas. Schick 1662 Jas. Patterson 329 Chas. Williams 300, 307, 308 W. Hooper 1958 Jas. Lopcr 1502, 1503 J.C. Bellamy 23 Wca. Sutciiffe 561 F. Mocher 578 J< Layard 589 — Hart 584,1319 J. O. Lorimer 580 D. Alabaster 583 John Fry or John Foy 578 L. Raphael 158 John Dooly 1022 W. Littlejohn 1668 W. Gow 818 David Robertson 512 Kami. McCarthy 811, 814 R. Boag 209 Win. B st 823 Chas. Robertson 1156 John Gollar 1703,1711, 1712 John Reid 747 J. ltobinson 291,414. 416 Cole, Hoytand Co 1095, 1233 Geo. S. Wilson 1512 David Wood . 881,1175 Win. lies 1542 J. L. Patterson - 2071 W: Hutehinson 1618 Jas. Pitello 945, 9i6 Dd. Hutchiuson 693 Jacob Beaver 893 P. McLiskey I 434, 743 Perkins and Co. John Hyde Harris 29 ca;es. The foregoing Appeals only will be heard on Friday, and the remainder will be duly advertised. CHAS. REID, • Clerk to Town. Board.

BANK OF NEW ZEALAND. npENDERS will be received at the Bank at' Dune_sL din, until iioon of the 15th December neit, roin persons desirous of puVelmsing the whole *:6r ar portion *of the unallotted shares in the stock of this bank. The number of shares unsold is about 1,500. ~Ar KENNEDY, ; General Manager. Bank of New Zealand, ~~; Auckland, 6th November, 1862.. BANKOP NEW ZEALAND. fTIHE Dividend declared by the Directors at the JL half-yearly Meeting, oh. the paid up capital, is now payable at tins Branch. By or-ler of the Board; (Signed) GEORGE M.LEAN, Mani^r. Dunedin, 17th Dec^ 1562. TXT ANTED, Four one-horse carts, on the Blue.V?L..skin Road, for carting stone. Apply to the Inspector, at the Works, or at the Road Engineer's Office. Dunedin. By order, Thomas Dick, Provincial Secretary. r loth- Sept., 1&32. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. We have again to remind our advertisers that our terms are cash on- receipt of advertisements, or where accounts are opened, cash at the close of the" month—no longer credit -will in; any case ; be given—and we must respectfully • inform, subscribers that they put us to great inconvenience by making our collector call day after day, on the excuse that they have, riot examined into their accounts. For their convenience we waive the cash on delivery of advertisements and for our convenience they should examine the accounts' as soon as presented. DAILY TIMES BRANCH OFFICE. FOR the further convenience of our Advertiseis and Subscribers, we have opened a Branch Office of the Daily Times & Weekly Witness. in Manse-street, the first, door from jthe, .corner^ oi Princes street. At the Daily Times Branch Office, Advertisements will be received from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m.. and will meet with the same attention as if.broughl to the Chief Department. Subscriptions to the Daily Times & Weekly Witness will also be received and the papers deliverer by the runners iii town, or forwarded in any niannei directed to the up-country districts. POST-OFFICE NOTICE. MAILS CLOSE For Northern Provinces of New Zealand, pei s.s. Queen, immediately on arrival of the British mails. (Signed) ARCH. BARR, Chiet Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Dunedin, 18th Dec, 1862. . . BANK NOTICE. This Day, being Fast Day, the Banks will remain Closed. Dunedin, 18rh December, 1862. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION. THI3 DAY. F. Moss Co, at the Mouth of the Clutha River-— Tin Wreck of the Mount Alexander, schooner, witi Cargo. .

AMUSEMENTS. PRINCESS' THEATRE. The "Fool's Eevengi," and " The Bonnie Fishwife.1 THEATRE lIOYAL. Temptation," " The Veteran's Legacy." and " Tht Happy Man-"