Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3401, 15 January 1874, Page 2

Commercial.

The amount of revenue received at the Cus-! on ogboda Ocleared for consumption this day, waa L1 ) 127 6s 2d, “.. . , ' ‘ t

Our American friends, are ggijin teaching us a lesson in sharp business practice,- and this' time it is one that our English publishers and 'manufacturers may well endeavor ;to imitate. The^ Messrs Lippincott have adopted the sag-; gestiop (made; some time- since in the New York ‘Publishers^ and w have published a classified retail price-list of sbhool-bcfelts; with telegraphic index?' A,word iaprinted; opposite each title, by which . that book my be ordered by telegraph at the expense of but two words. Form stance, to order, ten. copies of the newSvo edition of Loomis’s Treatise on Algebra,” twenty .of, 12mo edition of same, and four of “PlayMr’s Euclid,'” ' the following would suffice : “Ten .attain,, twenty attach, four abet.” The saving of time and money under the new system will be > very great. We know of; one somewhat^similar case, in which a firm' having large business transactions in the East,; make a point of takipg up, a dictionary and ! giving a word to every new line indented, so that iq future, if a repeat is wanted quickly,; it can be promptly ordered by ; j wire ; and, iho; doubt, in a Short time similar practices to those named above will become general.— ‘ Shippers’ Weekly .Circular.’ ... , ...i-’j■.!(./>; . .-I, ■

SHARE MARKET.

Auckland, _January., 15.—Buyers .‘ National; Bank, 64s y National Insurance, 20s; Bank of New, Zealand,,Ll6.l7s Sellers : National Ihsttfance, 21s Ll2; Tookeys/LS 10s. ■