COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11397, 14 April 1899, Page 4

COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Press Association—By Telegraphs-Copyright,

LONDON, April 12,

The total quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 3,135,000 quarters, and for the Continent 1,345,000 quarters. At the tallow sales 569 casks were offered, and 66 sold. Prices for all sorts are unchanged. Tin is dull at £114 10s.. ,

The American visible wheat supply is estimated at 51,747,000 bushels.

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post .Office, Dunedin, subject to any necessary alterations, as tinder: — '. '.

Overland, North, daily, 10.20 a.m. Late letters, 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Books and newspapers, 10 a.m. Late-fee letters must bear, in addition to the ordinary postage—ld for inland letters, 2d for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands, and 2Jd for all other places. FRIDAY, APRIL 14. For Northern Ports of; New Zealand' and Australian Colonies (except Tasmania), per nortli express (to connect with the Tarawera), at 10 a.m. For Lyttelton and Christchurch, per Te Anau, at 2 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. For Northern Ports of New Zealand, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, 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 branch Po3t Offices, North Dunedin and South Dunedin, for »oney orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 13th; letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 14th. At the Port Chalmers office at 8.45 a.m. on the 14th; money orders at 4 p.m.; registered letters at 5 p.m. on tho 13th.

The above mail will be due in London on the 17th May. MONDAY, APRIL 17. For Southland, Australian Colonies (via Hobart), India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Mediterranean ports, Continent of Europe, United Kingdom, etc., per Talune, at 2.35 p.m. • - Money orders, registered letters, hooks, and newspapers, at 1.35. ' ■ ■ . • Parcels post mails for the Australian Colonies will close at i p.m. on the 15th. A supplementary mail1 will be mado up at 3 30 (overland), to connect with the Talune lit tho Bluff.

Duo in London 28th May

The s.s. Fifeshirc will leave Wellington for London direct on the 14th. Correspondence, to bo specially addressed, closing at 10 a.m. Mails for South Africa, per Moravian, from Melbourne, 19th April. '"Mails for Noumea and Fiji close at Sydney on tho 20th.

Mails for Fiji, per Upolu, -will close at Auckland on 2Gth, at 4 p.m. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Tavinni, will close at Auckland on the'3rd May, at I p.m. Mails for South Africa, per Warrnambool, will close at Melbourne, sth May.

On and after Friday, 7th, mails for Pateaioa, Hamilton, Lin burn, and Serpentine will bo despatched from this office on Fridays instead of Saturdays.