SOUTHLAND GRAIN MARKET. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11809, 11 August 1900, Page 6

SOUTHLAND GRAIN MARKET. (PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

INVERCARGILL, August 10.

Oats.—The Invercargill Grain Brokers' Association report that the market is- a shade firmer owing tc a rather better inquiry from Australasia, presumably for shipment to China, ■but quotations remain unchanged—viz.: A grade, Is 5d to Is s^d; B grade, Is 4Jd to Is sd; C grade, Is 4d to Is 4£d (at country stations, bags sd).

VICTORIA INSURANCE COMPANY,

The annual balance sheet of the Victoria Insurance Company (Limited) for the year ended 30th June, 1900, appears in this issue. The result of the year's operations, after providing £17,000 for unadjusted losses, shows a credit balance of £29,14-8 19s lid. Out of this the directors pay a dividend of 2s 6d per share, absorbing £11,234- 10s, and add £8000 to their reserves, which now stand at £44,838 4s 4d, leaving £9914- -9s lid to be carried forward to the present year. As fire and marine losses during the past 12 months were v.cry heavy, the above result points to careful underwriting throughout the sphere of the company's operations.

POST OFFICE NOTICES,

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, subject to any necessary alterations, aa under: —

Overland, i^orth, daily, 10.20 a.m. Late letters, 10.45; also on the mail van up to 11 a.m. Bnoks 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 an-d the South Sea Islands, and 2£d for all other places.' .

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11. For Northern Ports, per Moura,.at 7.30 p.m.

Mails for Australia, Tasmania, New Caledonia, Ceylon, Soiyth Africa, India, China, Straits Settlements, Continent of Europe, and the United Kingdom, per Mararoa, will close at Auckland on the 13th, at 4 p.m. ■'

Mails for CrcAnarty, P.uysegur Point, and Te Oneroa, per Invercargill, will close at ' Invercargill on the 16th, at 3.30 p.m. .' The Aotea will leave Wellington fpr London, via Monte Video and Teneriffe, on the 11th, at 9 a.m. Correspondence for the United Kingdom to be specially addressed. Due in London 30th September.

Mails from Sydney for Noumea and Fiji, August IG.

Mails for Natal and Capetov/n, from Melbourne, per Aberdeen, 22nd August, and. .per Warrnambool, 4th September. ■ ■

NOTICE,

To ensure prompt delivery, letters, etc., for dredging companies Rhould have the name of the secretary in the address. Edmd. Cooke, Chief Postmaster.

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