COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11796, 27 July 1900, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Office, Thursday evening. The amount of revenue collected at the custom house to-day oil goods cleared for consumption was £1016 10s 2d.

The Auckland Gas Company (Limited) is inviting tenders (see advertisement elsewhere in this issue) for about 700 £5 fully paid-up shares, without further liability. The com-, pany is erecting a large and additional, gasholder, and it is for this purpose the money is required. The company has paid an average dividend during the last 31 years'of practically 15 per cent., the exact figure being 14s 11 l-10d per £5 share. The last sale of fully paid-up £5 shares was made in Auckland on 16th July, at £14- 2s. No deposit is required, merely an offer to take so many shares at a certain price. Such offers may be made through a sharebroker, or by the person tendering. Offers must be- sent by telegram, marked tenders for shares, to arrive at the company's office, Auckland, before ' 5 p.m. on the 31st inst.

- COMMERCIAL CABLEGRAMS. LONDON, July 25. (Received July 26, at'lo.3o a.m.) At the. tallow sales 1550 casks were offered and 825 sold. Mutton: Fine, 27s 6d; medium, 265. Beef: Fine, 275; medium, 25s 6d.

Australian and New Zealand Mortgage Agency debentures, £91. Silver, 2s 3fd per ounce. (Received July 2b, at 10.10 p.m.)

Consols, 97-i The American visible supply of wheat ia 57.607.000 bushels.-

Measurement freight by mail steamers has been raised to 70s.

THE MEAT MARKET.

NAPIER, July 26.—Messrs Nelson received the following cable from the C.C. and D. Company to-day:—" Frozen Meat Market.--To-day's quotations: Best Canterbury, 4d ; Dunedin, Southland, uot 'quoted; Napier, North Island, 3Jd. Lamb, first quality, Hd; second, 4|d.

INVESTMENT STOCKS,

The Dunedin Stock Exchange report the following sales yesterday:—National Insurance, 17s 9d; Standard Insurance, IGs 3d'and 17s. The following are yesterday's quotations: — National Insurance—Buyers 17s 9d, sellers 18s.

Standard Insurance—Buyers IGs Gd. AVestport Coal—Sellers £i Is. Mosgiol Woollen—Euyer3 £i 2s.

— The cultivation of fruit trees along the high roads of France is being extended year by year. Following the example of the Government, the communes in certain departments adopted tin; practice as a sort of revenue, and now it lias become an important branch of national industry. In Germany, Belgium, and the Duchy of Luxemburg als-'o the system is being rapidly developed. Last year the fruit harvest from the roads of Wurtemburg amounted to more than £120,000 as compared with £40,000 in 1878; for tho last 13 years Saxony has gained a revenue of about £68,000 frozn tho same source ; and Belgium'sl three-quartern of .", million fruit trees, planted along the roads in 1834, now furnish £40,000.

POST OFFICE NOTICES. Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Duneclin, subject to auy necessary alterations, al Overland, iS Torth, daily, 10.20 a.m. Late letters, 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Bowles and newspapers, ]0 a.m. Late-fee lettern must bear, in addition to the otdinary postage—ld for inland letters, 2d for letters for Australia and the South Sea Islands. THURSDAY, JULY 26. For Wellington direct, per Rimu, at noon. For Northern ports of New Zealand, Sydney, and Brisbane, per Mokoia, at 2 p.m. Money orders and registered le'.t>rs at 1 p.m. FRIDAY, JULY 27. For Lyttelton and Christchurch, per Moura, at 1 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 28. For Australian Colonies, India, China, Strait 3 Settlements, South Africa, Mediterranean ports, Continent Europe, United Kingdom, etc., per couth express, to' connect with the Westralia ■at the Bluff, at 8 a.m. . Money orders at 4 p.m. on the 27th. Registered letters at 5 p.in, on the 27th. Due in London September 11. Parcels for Australia will close at 3.30 p.m. on the 27th. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. SAN FRANCISCO MAIL SERVICE. For Northern ports of New Zealand, Samoa, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, Japan, Philippine Minds, South .Ameiica, West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, at 10' a.m. 1 Money orders at 4 p.m. on the 2nd. Registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2nd. Book packets and newspapers at 9 a.m. The. above mail will close at the branch Post Offices, North Dunedin and South Dunediu, for money orders and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2nd; letters at 9.30 a.m., and newspapers at 5 a.m. on the 3rd. At the .Pore Chalmers office at 8.45 a.m. on the 3rd; money orders at 4 p.m.; registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 2nd. Due in London on September 5. Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur Point, and Te •Oneroa close at Invercargill on Friday, 27th, at 11 a.m. Mails for Natal and Capetown, from Melbourne, per Woolloomooloo, on the 30th. Mails for Rarotonga and Tahiti close at Auckland on Tuesdny, 3lst, at 4 p.m. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji close at Auckland on Tuesday, 313t, at 4 p.m. Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttelton on Wednesday, the Ist of August, at 8 p.m. Mails for Capetown, from Melbourne, per Salamis, on the Bth of August. NOTICE. On and after Ist July, a Parcel Post Service will be established between New Zealand and the' United States of America. To prevent the presence of rat 3in the post office, the regulation regarding wedding cake to be enclosed in tin boxes will be rigidly enforced in future. To ensure ■prompt deliver*, letters, etc., for dredging companies nhould have the name of the secretary in the address. As offices despatching mails for South Africa will in future make up a special mail for each of the New Zealand Contingents, the public are advised to address letters clearly to No. 1, 2, 3, 4, nr 5 Contingent as the case may be. The postage upon soldiers' letters under half an ounce is Id. Edmd; Cooke, Chief Postmaster.