The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-09-05
Post Office Money Orders.

The business in the Money Order d.
vision of the General Post Office for the
quarter ended June 80, shows an increase
over the corresponding quarter Of last
year of nearly sixteen per cent. The total
transactions amount in the aggregate to
$S,165,63t %, of which Sl,65S, 176 81
were required in payment of 14l,014
money orders, and $2,090,5 were dis
bursod in payment Of postmastcrs' drafts
on letters of credit account. The re-
ceipts FOR money orders issued were
$261 01G 10, and postmasters' remittances
of surplus money order funds aggregated
the large sum of S3,572 ,4G1 -. There
were 10000 money orders certified to
Germany, whose total value amounted to
$lS2 93S II, while that country sent to
this 1860 orders, representing S16S,-
273 50. To Great Britain Is 406 orders
were transmitted, whose combined value
amounted to $l96,34 IS; in return the
New York office received during the
same time from the London exchange
office t SCI orders, amounting to $751;
422 G3. The total amount of money GER
titled to Italy was $25, 1873 06, against
S3,03G 50 received. rwcnty-one thou
sand and forty-seven dollars and forty
three cents were despatched to Switzer-
land and Sl4, 505 50 were certified from
Basic PAYABLE in the United States. All
Others issued in the United States, al
though drawn in United States currency,
are certified at the General Post Office,
which is the exchange office for this
country, and are payable in the money OF
the country to which they are sent; and,
in like manner, when a steamer arrives
bringing a certified list of postal orders,
the conversions of foreign money to
United States gold are verified by the
clerks assigned to that duty, the equiva-
lent in currency entered opposite such
entry therein, and the neares. money or
der offices to the payees' residences dos
ignated AS the offices of payment.
THE LONDON HoTErs.-Americans are
perpetually denouncing London hotels,
and London hotels are perpetually doing
a profitable business. On the principle
of letting we'll enough alone, hotels here
are very little changed in the last quarter
of century. They have less fuss, con-
fusion AMI eXchangc-likc character than
American hotels. That superb creature,
adorned with diamonds and rcdo!eut Of
Arabic perfumes, known a an "hcteI
clerk has neither a local habitation nor
a name here. \ meek and lowly repre-
sentative here promptly and politely an
swot> Your questions properly, knowing
tina, ~ your patronage the hotel gam.
its profits. And what are theyl The
Gree, Western Hotel at the paddiugt,.
Station pays dividend of forty per cen;
to its shareholders.
The two hotels at Euston square, the
London terminus of the Liverpool rail
road pay p per cent dividend, and the
Lancham Hotel Company pays 20 per
cent The Charing.cross Hotel Compa-
ny, aud perhaps the worst-managed of
all hotels, pays 10 per cent. All the
joint stock hotels pay large profits. And,
"a the future Of America will be promi-
neutly marked, AS is evident, by corpora
tions, the hote. business will partake of
the company system more than of the
old individual ownership. Therefore
may state that all public company hotels
here pay we'll and better than private
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