Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3757, 9 March 1875, Page 2

Commercial.

amoßn s of revenue received at the Custom* waTLUB9°&? ear fOT COUSUmption this «ay [By Telegraph.] Mblsohsne, March 3.—Wheat, 4s 8d to 4s 9d, o N o? Ze^ land oats have sold at 4s oa, Californian at 3s 2d, and Tasmanian at 4s • Vic-wmn-made woolpacks are in the market from the 3«te factory. A private telegram from wl ker °sene strong and advancing; torge speculative purchases have been made. New Zealand four per cents, are offered at LB7 London, February 23.— The wool sales opened th -^ er y lar ßs e attendance. The prices, as iSS vr e3 ' B w OW a decline of from mvßtbn i a P% slark5 lark . L “ 1 . e Express,’ of February 2, floods and shipwrecks have done great e ’ dr 7 samples of wheat are unusually market, and heavy arrivals prevent a rise in price, STANDARD INSURANCE [COMPANY. mtv t Rfm SeC °* d J mlf * y^ irly me eting of this com-ye.a^l-day afternoon, the report of the ? b we .P a khshed a week ago, was confMrft’r n p in moving its adoption, the Chairman E- Eeid) congratulated the shareholders on The^n^ 0 , of the half-year’s busines£ of au agent in London before iosses^bv 1 tb? e^ b i ed^ e com pany to escape caS aJw C ' 0S P tttock . Kmrabridge, and BleutbXu£fuT*“^ Wbat mgkt expected from ted DilEThir mentioned that advices S T had been received that the comFewer a^^ en Wl £ km thr ee weeks lines in no teen Bhips to Australia and New The company was also rapidly growing wm abontK 11 ! Sou * h Waks, and cSato* b ? nc l? e8 m other Australian fcoAv 168 ' The accounts showed the comnanv had heavy losses; indeed, therewere by Standard was not a loser. But the risks were withoutTv eptmn, good ones, and the amounts moderate and the management carefully avoided taking operations of another local comre'elected. and Mi- A. C. Begg