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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1579, 26 May 1874, Page 230

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COMMERCIAL TELEGRAMS. AUCKLAND. 22ud May. Markets. —Mr G. Binney reports the market better supplied with grain, but stock was still light. Oats, 5/6 ; wheat, 6/3 to 6/6; bran, £7 10/; pollard, £8; flour, Duuediu, £l4; hams aud bacon, none in market; butter, scarce, 1/2; cheese, -/8; see.l oats, much required; potatoes, £6; fat cattle, plentiful. 5/ f lOOlbs. lower ; good fat, 30/ f lOOlhs.; inferior 24/; fat sheep, full supply, •/3.J to-|4 ; longwooled ewes, 26/. WELLINGTON. 22nd May. Markets.—Wholesale quotations : Flour, £l3 9/ to £l4 ; wheat, 6/; oats, 5/3 ; brau, 1/11; potatoes, £5; maize, 6/6 ; bacon aud hams, -/10 to 1/2 ; cheese, -/8. CANTEEBUEY. ; 22nd May. Markets.—The wheat market is firmer, owning to recent advices from Melbourne, but a material rise was checked by the dull state of the English market. Farmers are gettiug from 4/6 to 4/8 ; millers giving the latter price. Prime sample of flour, £l2 to £l3; sharps, £6 10/ f ton; bran and oatmeal remain the same as last week; barley is not so firm, maltsters having stocked for a time ; quotations, 4/9 to 5/. .Butter scarce -J 11,J to 1/J-; cheese is in good demand at -/G; bacon sud hams, .-/8 J in Christchurch. • Potatoes are in brisk demand ; the crop is not turning out equal to expectations,. and I here are short deliveries in consequence; they may be quoted at from £3 5/ per ton delivered in Christchurch. LONDON. 22nd April. A prospectus has been issued in London containing proposals for the formation of a company to take over Hall's Australian steamship line. The proposed capital is £600,000, in 30,000 shares of £2O each. The seven promoters take one share each, and four of them, including Mr Hall, stipulate for £I,OOO a-year. The amount of bullion withdrawn from the Bank.of England on balance-day was £114,000, and the amount of bullion gone into the bank is £20,000. The report of the Eastern Extension Australian and China Telegraph Company,, shows that the year'sjprofits are £156,975. A dividend equal to g\ per cent, has been declared, and £39,950 carried to the reserve fund/

We have to acknowledge the courtesy of the purser of the Murray, for the delivery of full files of Auckland papers By advertisement it will be seen that the Kennedy family may be expected in this, province next month. This talented company, are at present in Auckland; they have performed with great success in. various parts of the Colony, and have been very favorably criticized by the press.

INLAND MAILS. I Mails Close at the Chief Post Office, -Napier, as follows: •';'.> For Port Ahuriri, at 9.15 a.m., and 1.15 p.m., daily. ; For Clive, Havelock, Te Ante, Kaikora, ' Waipawa, and Waipukurau, at 7 a.m. '■'} daily. . ... - ■For Karamu, at 7 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thurs- '/ days, and Saturdays. For Wallingford and Porangahau, at 7 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. For Maraekakaho, atj a.m.' on Tuesdays and Fridays. For Tarawera, Taupo, and Tauranga, at 4.30 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, For Waiuui, Castle Point, and Wellington! at 7 a.m. on Mondays. ' For Norsewood, Tahoraite, Palmerston, Otaki, Marton, Turakiua, Wangauui, Patea, Tarauaki, and Wellington' every Tuesday at 7 p.m. For Pourerere, Kereru, Gwavas, Hampden, Patangata, and Euataniwha, at 7 a.m, on Fridays. For Petane, Mohaka, Wairoa, and Mahia, every Tuesday at noon. For Auckland, via Tauranga, every Monday at 4.30 p.m.