For India. China. Japan, Mediterranean Ports, Continent of Europe, and United King dom (via Suez) and Australian Colonies, per Mariposa, immediately- after ber arrival from Samoa. Mail will be due in London August 4. For New Plymouth, Southern Ports, London, etc., via Rio de Janeiro and Plymouth (per lonic, from'Lyttelton; 23rd inst.). per Takapuna, immediately after arrival of Mariposa. . Mail will he due in London August 2.; ■ yy S. B. BlSS. '.'"' . ~ , . ; . Chief Postmaster.
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Bank of New Zealand—Sellers, £5 Colonial Batik—Buyers. 40s: sellers. 41s . Natib'hal Insurance—Buyers. 16s '."•'• South British Insurance—Sellers, 20s Standard Insurance—Buyers, 15s - '-.y '.••:. New Zealand Accident Insurance—Sellers, 7s 1 9(1 New Zealand Loan and Mercantile—Buyers, 48s Vsellers'." ."50s .. ;-•,. Auckland Gas-Buyers. £10 10s ■ „ „, *fe :i'Ck>romahder;StaamsMp^^ • Northern Boot—Buyers, 4s 6d UnionOil—Sellers, 14s 6d ....;,. ■MINING.- . -. y * Thames— , ,„ . May QUeen—Business done, ls. 10d;; buyers, Is 9d; sellers. 2s ? Moanataiari—Buyers, 2s 9d Saxon—Sellers, 9d Alburnia—Buyers, 7d ; sellers, ls Magnolia— Sellers,6d.... ; , [,:, , Cambria—Business done, Is _d fbuyers, ls 2d; : sellers, ls4d Victoria—Sellers, od . „ \ | Hazelbank —Buyers, Is 2d; sellers, ls 6d §g Upper Thames — Crown—Buyers, 9s; sellers, 10s Woodstock—Buyers, 2s 4d; sellers, 2s Gd Silverton—Sellers, 3s Waihi—Buyers, 2s 4d; sellers, 2s 6d Kuaotunu— . Try Fluke—Sellers. 3s Red Mercury—Buyers, lOd Mariposa—Buyers, 3d; sellers, 6d I Owera—Sellers, 3s 3d

DEMAND FOR LAND AT TARANAKI.
