«►- ■■ —- Daily Times Office, Monday evening. The grain arrivals by rail at the Dunedin railway stations to-day were as follows :—

The Sayings Bank returns show that for th March quarter of this year the deposits exceede the withdrawals by £4779. The total amount of th quarter's deposits was £407,115 as against £401,0) last year, 'l'he withdrawals amounted to £402,331 a3 against £.352,764. The largest deposits were i Chrißtchuroh (£85,198), ■Wellington coming nea (£70,195^, Dunedin (£65,519) third, and Aucklac (£19,307) fourth. The largest excess of deposits ovi withdrawals (£6774) was in Christchurcb, Wangan' (£2165) coming next. The largest excess of wit! drawals over deposits was (£2878) in Greymoutl Kelson (£2031) coming next. The employment of postal notes for the liquid tion of Bmall accounts seems to be growing in publ favour. The total number sold in the colony durii the past first quarter ef the year was 39,318, repr sentiag a value of £15,008 lGs 9£d, being an increa of nearly £2000 over the value of those issued durii the corresponding quarter of 1888. The total coi mission gained by the sale of postal notes w £286 3s 3§d. Mr Connell sold at Oamaru on Saturday a 15-ac paddock at Kakanui, divided into 12 allotmenl Mr Alexander Elder purchased the first two lots £25 10s and £29 10s per acre respectively; Mr Hu| M'Kay purchased the third lot at £29 10s peraci The other nine lots fell to Mr Alexander Thomson £27 per acre. a EXPORTS. The Wellington Trade Eeview regrets that it unable to give the particulars of the exports of t colony for the first quarter of 1889, but there is j one port from which the returns have not been se in. It is, however, one of the minor ports that missiDg, the exportß of which in the first quarler 1888 amounted in value to £86,048. Assuming tl shipments to the eame value left it in the quari just concluded, we find that t.he Pxporta of t colony for the three raontli3 reached th« high to of £3,416.478. Tina is the largest quarter's expo that ever left the colony. The total for twelvemonth ending with the March quar amounts to no less than £8,200,313. as agaii £7,069,247 for the preceding twelvemonth. 