COMMERCIAL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 173, 5 June 1862, Page 4

COMMERCIAL.

Dunedin Customs, June 4th, .1302.

The quantity of gold entered to-day amounted to 96 oz. lOdwts., upon which the duty levied was £12 Is. 3d. The imports realised £-100 7s. 4d. _ '; '■«»- —— ■ ADELAIDE-QUOTATIONS 01' -BttKAnSTUF-FS. White's Valley, silk dressed .. £11 iSs. to £12 ss. Bowman's : " .-. 11.15 ...to .12 5 Rayner's ' " .. 11 15 Jo ]l 2 5 Beeby :& Dunstan " .. 11 15 to 12 5. Country, brands 10s. per ton le.^s. , Magareyjsife Hart's stzperfine flour, £1210s. to "£l3 per ton. Wheat at Port Adelnitle, 4s. Bd. to 4s. lOd.; very fine, ■ss.'per bus. "of-. fiO lbs;' Bran; Is; 3d. per bus. of 20 lbs. Pollard, Is. 4d..pcr bus. of 20 lbs.

NEW ZEALAND -INSURANCE COMPANY. A speoial meeting of the shareholders of the Ne\r Zealand Insurance Company was held onMavlOtli at the Company's office,eraser's Uuildings, Auckland. J. Browning, Ksr;., in the chair..'About twenty shareholders were present.' The minutes of preceding meetings having been read and confirmed, the mana- • per. Mr. Gr. P: Tierce read the following Report and Statement of Accounts lor half-year ended 80th Noy., 1861: — . ' "itEPORT. " The Directors have much pleasure in presenting to the shareholders a Report ami" balance sheet for the half-year ending 30th November last, and would have called them1 together at a much earlier period but for the delay occasioned iv effecting the arrangements -for I the extension of the Company's capital and operations. ' ■ • -. '" ."The new Deed of Settlement will be ready for signature in a few days; printed proofs are now on the table for perusal.. . ' - " The Directors have decided that the reserve fund and profit for the half-year ending 30th. November, — j less dividend at 10 per eeiit. per annuiu,-^shall be divided amongst the present shareholders j fiach share ■will then be worth £19 3s.4d;>and the Directors have apportioned to each proprietor threc'shares of £6 for each share held, and also a bonus of ;£1 3s 4d. per share, and they trust tliis arrangement will be .satisfactory to the proprietor;,-. . •■■■ .«::....•■'- " The number of the shares absorbed by this arrangement is 193S ; 270 have "been disposed of at Wellington, 103 in Auckland -arid other places, -leaving 189 (to complete the2so ) for the use of the company as may be required. " The bonus and dividend will be 'payable at this office, on nud after Saturday, the 2-ith.instaiit.