Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 3956, 29 October 1875, Page 3

Commercial.

t jj?® amount , of revenue received at the Cuatomw^l6°722a°sd cloared £or coemption this day as follows for the week endin 9 P ricea on'y):—Fresh butter m jib and lib prints. Is 6d to Is 8d per lb • fresh fnpw1 r V« a fi'-T UnP Th ls 4d '■ P ow dered and salt butter i?Sn W \ ~T ilc Bu PP l y Of frcsfi butter is very piemifm, and the quality ia very good. • there jq } > fs 4d nn?fh d f %, Dew se j*®°, n saH butter at Is 3d to la 4(1 per lb Cheese of the best quality is very Sih 2 r P r lb i , Side and rolled Wxm. Is to i, 4 ,. p per, er , lb • Colonial ham. Is 3d; beef ham, lOd ; English ham, Is 6d to Is Bd, Eges are verv ulpnti fuh and in good demandat Is 6d per d oz ln? P report of the National Insurance Company for the half-year ending September 30 last, just circulated, congratulates the shareholders on the bn? i. ness done, when it is remembered that the ha l f yeans generally the quieter of the two for inf nranee companies. The total receipts for the hid V. year (including 12,073 carried forward from the T 9a V sv S . bala ?c6) were L 42.738, and the erpenditv tro 123,567, leaving for distribution 119,161, which the directors recommend should be appropriate/1 as follows-by placing 15.000 to the reserve f„nd which will then stand at 135,000 ; by paying a dht a A tlle of fifteen percent, per annum on the paid-up capital, which will absorb 13,750; rtud bv carrying forward to the next half-year 110,411. The atbmore . Wa l a L the snd5 nd of September treated as a missing ship, therefore the L l,« 00 the company The ms Jit of +h B uota Pl )earin this balance-sheet traHn Is fw fi general manager s visit to Austt ai,a 13 > that . the company is now represented in the four principal Colonies with fair pi ospocts of success, notwithstanding great competition."