Mail Notice.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 182, 30 July 1901, Page 2

Mail Notice.

Subject to any necessary alteration, mails will close as under: ' TpksAay, Jijly 30th For North Island ui New Zealand, at 3 p.m. , Fkii>ay, Atjaosra 2i*p, For Australian Coloriicn, 3 p.m. The next parcel mail for tbe # United Kingdom will cioße at Waimate about 29ih inet. Maila for Fiji close at Auckland on the 31»t inst. r . The next mail for tbe United Kingdom, etc., Tia San Franoisco, will close at Waimate.. on August 13th. Due in London on September 14tb. fe[. GOUBLEY, ,<■ ,"' ~/. . Postmaster, . Waimate, July 29th, 1901,

Commercial.

JSVAIMATE WEEKLY SA.LB. . There wrs a gooi attendance ai> lessrs Guinness am! LeCren'sww kly sale n Saturday, when the following found eady sale: Pigs- .Weaners, 33 6d ; slip l , from 'a 6d to 9? 6d ; stores, from IBs to 17s. Yearling heifer, £1 ss. Poultry, lOd to Is 6d. Tarkeya, 7s isch. Pofttoes, 6« Gd to 8s 6i per bag. Carrots, 2s 6d per bai?. V TIMARTJ MARKETS. ifThe Timaru markets have shown a fair amount oi activity during the past week, oats and wheat having exchanged hands freely. Local merchants hive paid Is 8d to In BJ*d for good samnlei of oats, while a hig line of wheat was purchased at 2a 6s f.o.b. These has beer, nothing doing in barley. Potatoes show a alight decline in value, being now worth from £4 5s to £4 10s per fc»n, according to sample, f.o.b. The decline in price is attributed to the larger supplies now offo ing.