Commercial.

Evening Star, Issue 4071, 14 March 1876, Page 3

Commercial.

; The abonhtllof reVentte yeceived, at the Custom* (house on (foods cleared for < J J' nßU pption this day jwas L 879 Bi. :j -’- ;■ I In Januaiy lost the Union Bank of AnsiT*** 0, P|“d ;a dividend of 16 per cent., which now iriakeJ: the (total sum received by shareholders in this manner', jduring thirty-seven years, no less an amount than ;L5,200,000. The latest quotation of the bank’s (shares in London was L 67. The official returns jthat the, .Uruton, with its twenty-one offices, fdoes the second largest business in the Colony. .:' ■ ; The privileges.in connection, with the approaching jraoe meeting were sold by MeSsrs WrfghvStephen- | son, and Co. at the Provincial Saleyaras this morning. The attendance of the public was very large, And the bidding spirited. The following were the prices realisedOates, L7BO (last year, LS4OL W. I Watson; grand-stand 1 , L 365 (L 262 10s), W. Watson; I s^dliqgjpoddock, L 205 (L 120), H.Ross; stabling Ll4los (I 18), B. Patdn; race-cards,' LlO5 (1,77105), • E,. Langley; stewards’ booth, HlO (L 77 10s), C. 1 Nlcolson; booth No. 1, L 73 (L6O), A. Geddas: No ;2. L 73 (L 54), A. Geddes; No. 3, LSO (fif), A. Patterson; No. 4, L 44 (L3O), T. Oliver; No. 5, LSI 1 (L 27), W, Insley ; fruit stands, L 43, sundry pur- ' chasers. The total amount was L 1.913105, against L1,34810s last year, .