ol the largest of the Union Company's steamers, arrived in port yesterday and, loaded with grain (or Duncdin, sailed again in the afternoon. The Ringarooma wa3 despatched from the portwithout dimcul y or hitch, and it is to be hoped that this successful beginning ol the Company'!' endeavours to tost the port «o o capable of loading large boats, will be followed up with equal success in the case of other large steamers." COMMEKCIAL. Daily limes Office, Thursday evening. The amount o' Customs Iwvcnuc received today on (foods entered for consumption was £1110 19s Sd. In Mr G. 0. Buwmaii'i" share report, published on Tuesday !«t, Kocp.ft-JJ.jrk Oimpiin.v's shares v.oro quo oil at no fid. Wo have received the following telc-reuhio correction from the Press Association a"ent ■ --" Ke en -it-Dark : Buyers, £1 17s <jd ; sellers, £2. Probably error occurred in transmission." LONDON WOOL SALES. The New Zealand Loan and Mercuntilo Agency Company (Limited) have received the following telegram from their London office, dated December 6th:-Wool.-Competition is decreasing, and the market is weaker. Competition on Froucu account is sluggish. Up to date 90,000 bales have been sold. The sales will close on 10th. Moßsrs Murray, Huberts, and Co. ace in receipt of the following cablegram, dated London, sth December :— ' Market weaker. Greasy wool declined 5 to 7i per cent." THE LABOUR MAUKET. Mr Skksb reports for the week ending 7th Decem\v'a"es: Shepherds, £(16 and £70; musterers, 40a to 60s • station and wooUhed odd hands, 20a, 255, and 30s; cooks and bakers, 30a to 40s, for busy time; day labour, O-i, 7s, and 8s ; ploughmen, £52; odd farm hands and milkers, 15s to 20a; lada and girls for dairy hotel men, cooks, waiters, boots, barmen, 20s to •25s and 40s; ordinary female servants, IDs, 12s, an. Iss; message boys, 5a to 10s; country smiths and carpenters, 30s to jOa; bushmen, 7s and Ba. POST OFFICE NOTICE. Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Duncdin (subject to any necessary a'teratious), as under :— This Day (Friday), Dechmbrr 9. For Wescport, Orcynioutb, and Hokltika, per Beau'.iful Star, at 4.45 p m. Saturday, Dkckmbkr 10. For Northern ports of New Zealand, por North train, at 6 a.m. Late letters, mail-van, North train, " For Northern ports of New Zealand, per Wakatlpu, at 4.45 p.m. Late letters, guard's van, Port Chalmers krain, at 5.15 p.m. For West Coast Sounds, per Stella, via the Bluff, at 5.40 p.m. on tbo 10th December. . Mails for tho United Kingdom and Australian Colonies close at tho Blufl at noon on Friday, Mb Inst. IMPORTANT. On and after the 2nd January, 1882, money orders will bo exchanged between the United SUtea of America and New Zealand, and will bo isauod In Now Zealand unon the United States at the following rates of commission :-For sums not ojcceedi g £2, Is 6d; exceeding £2, but not exceeding £4, 2s 6d ; exceeding £4 but not oxceeding £6, 3s Od ; exceeding £8, but not exceeding £8, 4s (3d ; exceeding £8, but not exceeding £10, 5s Od. fßl?ned) ARCH. BARB, " Chief Foatmuter. Ohlef Poet Office, Dnnedln, December 9,1881. ABSTRACT OF SALES BY AUCTION. THIS DAY. M. Pym, on Premises, Broughton View, George street —Household furniture. J. Campbkll, at Market, Moray placo—Crockeryware, &c. DEATHS. On the 6th December, at Dcmdas street, Mrs Wilkinson, mother pi Mr T. M. Wilkinson, of this city; aged 76 »ears. On the 7th December, at Queen street, Dunedin, after a few days' illness, Clyde Pollok Gordon, youngest child of Gordon Forlong ; agod 6 years. On the 7th December, at Moray place, Julia A. D., wife of Dr Hocken ; in the 40th year of hor ago. On the Bth December, at Bellfleld, Kast Taiori, Mary Jane, the beloved wife of John Allan, iv childbirth ; aged 38 years. Funeral Notices. FUNERAL NOTICE. rHE Friends of Dr HOCKEN are respectfully informed that tho Funeral of his late WIFE is appointed to leave his Kesidcnco, Moray place, THIS DAY (FRIDAY), Oth inst., at 3 o'clock, for tho Northern Cemetery. WALTER G. GEDDES, Undertaker, Octagon. fTIHE Friends of Mr John Allan are requested to attend tho Funeral of his late WIFE, which will leave hia Residence, Bellflold, East Taiori, for East Taiori Cemetery, on SATURDAY, 10th lnst., at 8 o'clock p.m. 0J lIISNRY PURVIS, Undertaker. FUNERAL NOTICE. THE Funeral of Mr Gordon Furlong's SON will take placo in the Northern Ocmetory, at 3.30 pm. on SATURDAY, tho lOtli inst., leaving hia House, at the north end of Queen street, at 3 p.m CRAIG & GILLIKS, Undertakes, 13 George street, and 11 Great King street. Special Advertisements NOTICE OF RKMOVAL. /BARTER & CO. havo REMOVED TEMPORARILY to Offices lately occupy by Mathoson Bros., BOND STREET. Sd MONEY. MONEY. MONEY. THE EQUITAKLE INVESTMENT COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND (LIMITED) is prepared to LEND monoy, iv any sum to sul uorrowors, on Freehold or Lcasoholc! Securities; or to make temporary advances on Shares, Bond Warrants, or to Discount Bills of Exchange. W. P. STREET, Offices: Manager. Liverpool street, Dunedin. Stiau hET T' 8} D«I AKI ES, 18 82, Just Arrived. FEBGOSSON & MITCH EL.I, MERCAE'HLE STATIONERS, MANUFAOTCKEKB, O* ACCOUNT BOOKS, BOOKBINDERS, PAPER RULEEB, ENGRAVERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, AND PRINTERS. KUBBER STAMP UAKEWB. All tha Latest Novel In Stationery kept In mock. T> p N JS D U S ?. NOW LANDING, 350 TONS BONEDUSr, ex Estelle, from Melbourne. ' Orders for this celebrated Fertiliser now being booked, for dolivcry froqi ship's side. GEORGE BLYTH, Importer, 3J . 20 Crawford street, Dunedin. riIHE MEKCANTILE AND BANKX RUPTCY GAZBTTE OF NEW ZEALAND.— rhe ONLY GAZETTE giving tho fullest particulars and containing WEEKLY INFORMATION of all BitM of SALH, MOETBAOBB O? SIOOH, LtBNS OS WOOL, LIBKS os Chop, Bailmbsts, Shahs Rupohts, and all matters relating to MaaoAtrm.l Poasnrra and to BANKW7HKJT, ANNUAL Subscription, £3 33, payable In advance. HaU-yearly'lnoie* published In January and July of 9*R h *"£' WHESLKU, ?3gLI?nKR, ADTMiTißraa Asmcr, Stafford street. Danjjm _ln; ROBIN & O 0.,| OOAOHBOILDEKS and IMPORTERS, Octagon akd Stuart Strbst, HAVE FOR SAL ElFamily Waggons Waggojwitgo Doublo BuggKsa Ladios' Driving Phaetons, Sc. All Sold at Prices to correspond with the times. ESTABLISHED 1861.— G. R. WEST AND CO., Pianoforto, Harmonium, and Mualc Varohouse, Princes stroet, Dunedin. Every artido connected with the Music Trade of superior duality only kept at this establishment. Tbo largest and moat complete stock of Muaic ln the Colonies. 80,000 songs and pieces to select frOE) of new popular and standard works. In the Pross—orders nowboing recoivod-N.Z. Magazine No 8., containing nev/ danco music, with Eccomjiauimonts for violin and TwMitfEIiCIAL MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (LIMITED). RISKS OF EVEBY DESORfPTI^ON 'At 'I LOWEST RATES. HtflLL BROTHERS, lIIOH BTRKKT. 120 XIDB OF IRON PAINT, Prepared by the THAMES PAINT MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Thames, Now Zealand. C/JARLES HILL, MANAOBtt. This Paint is tho most durable, tho cheapest, the purest, and best that can bo usid for all kinda of Iron ''ana Woodwork. It preserves' all materials coveret I with it fraoj decay and tho action of tho weather, and is unsurpassed foi- all r"! FARM BUILDINGS. BRIDGES, ; 1 AOUICULT.URAL IMPLEMENTS, So. MAGHINERY, 'BOJLEKS, i c and all descriptions of IroiiWQtk. ft haa f.««o the ad' ynntago of boing frcu from all poisonous .or ingredients, being mado from peroxide of iron Ore. i ] Wcathorboardu, Shingles, te, BOf.yed with it will! i resist fire, j Is supplied ground in oil or in powdar. 1 " We have ased this Paint on Iron Castings and Stain Boilers, and api rove of it vory highly.—A. and , H. emeu, Eiii'iueora,Tl.ainos." > " fat Woodwork I consider It suporior to Nolsoo iHe natite, ci it possesses groitor body, and lesvet »odimaut oor waste—W. Kkickbr, Painter, ■• It has good drying qualities, wil a vor intense ,body.—C. BliOoimßLD, Painter, AueMana," M^9 (or Otago^nju-88., ttD'OC. ' J
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 6189, 9 December 1881, Page 2
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