Commercial.

Press, Volume III, Issue 310, 28 October 1863, Page 2

Commercial.

OTAGO. M'l.andrcss, Hepburn, end Co. report having- sold this dny by auction, at their new rooms. Manse-street, the cargo of the Koynl Arthur, from Mauritius, viz: — (In bond*— Pure white crystals, £40 per ton: aeeond crystals, £30 to £31 per ton ; finest, counter, £2ft; fine counter. £26 ios to £27 ; tine do, £21 10s to £21 Ise ; white crystals, £34 10s-, second do. £32 10s to £33 lOs; do. £29 10s to £.t\. l'ortion of the cargo of tea. ex Anglo-Indian, from China—Chests finest kyshow rongoii. £7 10s; hnlf-chests, £4 ; boxes, 28s 6d in"bond. Also, tlie cargo of the Ilarburg, from San Francisco— 200 tons flour, at £14 per ton ; 750 sacks wheat, es 6d per bushel; 2632 sacks oats, at from 6s 4d to 7s 7d per bushel.—'Otasro Daily Times, , October 22.

The preliminary prospectus of the. " Duncdin Water Supply Coiupauy ' appears in our advertising columns. A cvrtitlcnte of incorporation has Ixvn granted under t!ie Joint Stock Tom panics' Act of New Zealand; ond tlio list of provisional directors published, comprises the utuucs of iHxuy of tlie most influential citizens of lniuedin. It is pro|M)&iil to raise a capital of .{50,000, upon which interest for tun years at the rate of six per rent. Is miarantecd by the l'««v|neial legislature. The work to lie undertaken is a most important one, and the outerprtsc c.iDiiot fail to be highly remunerative to the oharelwiders. It will supply 'an imperative public luressity. ami it Ss wry Siitisi'actory toknow timt it is lieing inaugurated under the auspices of men whose uauu-s are a sufficient guaranty of the "bona fides' J of the undertaking uud the soundness of the calculation? ©a whicii it it bac-cl. -Ibid