COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11957, 2 February 1901, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

Daily Times Ofiice, Friday evening. Tho amount of revenue collected at the Dunedin Custom House to-dav on goods cleared for consumption was £18E6 13s 6d. We learn that Mr A. St, George PiydSr lias severed his connection with the Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association- Mr Ryder has been closely identified with the association since its inception six- years ago, first as chairman of directors and for the last three years as secretary and manager. We understand that Mr Freeman, of Freeman's coal-pits, succeeds Mr Ryder in the management, and the association's chief clerk, Mr Couchman, the secretaryship. INVESTMENT STOCKS. The Dunedin Stock Exchange report the following quotations yesterday:— National Bank—Buyers £3 10s, sellers £8 12s. Milburn Lime and Cement (10s paid)— Sellers 19s. New Zealand Drug (f2 paid)— Buyers £2 13s. New Zealand Refrigerating—Buyers £1 10a, sellers £1 l'ls. NATIONAL MORTGAGE AND AGENCY COMPANY, . We learn that the National Mortgage and Agency Company have received cable advica front their London office that the report and balance sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1300, has been issued in London, and that tho directors recommend a dividend for the year of 7£ per cent; that a special fund which has beet held for some time to meet possible depreciation and losses on assets is found no longer necessary as a contingency account; and that it has be;n transferred to reserve, and further additions made which will bring the reserve account to £25,000. -