MAIL NOTICES

Southland Times, Issue 20011, 27 October 1926, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES

(Supplied by Chief Poet Office.) MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies (via San Francisco), also Cook Islands and Tahiti, close at CJP.O. on Monday, November 8, at 6.15 a.m., for despatch by R.M.S. Makura from Wellington. Mail due London about December 8. W. T. JOHNSTON,

plied by the Hon. the Minister-in-Charge of the Public Trust Office. The amount paid out in settlement of new loans was £303,994, making a total of £1,468,805 since the beginning of the present financial year on April 1, 1926. Further new loans were granted to the amount of £209,105, making the total of loans granted but not yet paid out £804,014. In addition, offers have been made of loans less than the full amounts applied for, and these total £146,350 —a grand total of £950,364. Applications are on hand for loans amounting to £329,129. The new estates business has been most satisfactory, the total value for the month’ being £634,105. During the past four months the value of the new estates accepted for administration had exceeded two million pounds. The number of wills deposited for safe custody by living testators also reached a very r satisfactory total—s4o—and the office now holds 51,372 wills. THE SHAREMARKET. YESTERDAY’S TRANSACTIONS. (Per United Press Association.) Auckland, October 26. Sales on ’Change: Inscribed Stock (1929) 5 per cent. £99; Bank of Australasia £l4 1/6; National Bank of Australasia (cont.) £9 5/-; National Insurance £3 19/-; New Zealand Insurance 40/-; Westport Coal 38/-; Electrolytic Zinc (pref.), 37/3; Milne and Choyce Debenture Stock 24/-; Sanford Ltd., 23/-; Alburnia 4/5; Moanataiari 2/1, 2/2; Waihi 19/7. Dunedin, October 26. Sales on ’Change:—Kawarau 2/7 (two), 2/8. BRADFORD TOPS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 7.50 p.m.) London, October 25. The Bradford wool tops market is extremely quiet, spinners not responding to the reduced quotations.—A. & N.Z. WHEAT CARGOES. (Rec. 7.50 p.m.) London, October 25. Wheat cargoes are slow and quotations are lower following the quiet freight position and lower advices from America. Three thousand five hundred tons of the South Australian new crop per steamer in Janu-ary-February, sold at 59/3. The parcels market is steady for positions, but distant loadings are quiet at 6d to 1/- decline. Sales were made at 60/9. Liverpool’Futures: Quotations, October 12/7, December 12/1 J, March 11/4j, May 11/0g per cental.—A. & N.Z. FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES. London, October 25. The exchange rates are as follows: Aug. 30. Oct. 25. Paris, fr to £1 .. .. 172.37 161.63 Brussels, fr to £1 .. .. 178.62 174.13 Oslo, kr to £1 22.16 19.50 Copenhagen, kr to £1 18.28 18.23 Stockholm, kr to £1 .. 18.15 18.15 Rome, lire to £1 .. .. 150.12 107.50 Berlin, reichmkn to £1 20.40 20.38 Montreal, dot to £1 4.85 11-16 4.84$ Y’okohama, st to yen .. 23 11-16 24J Calcutta, st to rupee .. 18 17 j Hong-Kong, st to dol .. 26| 23 Amsterdam, gldr to £1 12.114 12.12 Batavia, guilder to £1 12.084 12.08 2-3 —A. & N.Z. METAL MARKET. ) (Rec. 10.35 p.m.) London, October 25. Copper: Spot £5B 8/9; forward £59 6/3. Lead: Spot £3O 10/-, both positions. Spelter: Spot £34 2/6; forward £34 6/8. Tin: Spot £3lO 12/6; forward £304 12/6. Silver: Standard 24 9-16 d; fine 264 d A. & N.Z.