COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. Daily Southern Cross Office, Wednesday, June 20.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2167, 30 June 1864, Page 4

COMMERCIAL SUMMARY. Daily Southern Cross Office, Wednesday, June 20.

TnERK has been a inctly busk business dono during the month, ami hade gcueuilly spciiking seems to be in «i healthy state. Stocks of goods of .ill kinds aie Lugo, the best pi oof of winch is had in the i ict that any attempt to foicc them upon the mailat is attended with unfavourable losults to the seller The Auckland tiade 13 peculiar in this lespect, for the bulk of the shopkcepcis heie either import then own goods 01 aie not \n a position to lay in joiisideiable supplies. The icsulfc 11 theiefoie, that the merchant to obtain anything like tan puces is compelled to hold his, good-, l-'oi immediate consiunption good puces am be got fot all the leading aitieles, and wo need only leleriooui c.u chilly collected prices cm 1 cut 111 pi out of this. Of ■\wues and sjuuts theie is a good supply, and puces ha\c not m.itciially .iltoicd. Owing toiooent nnpoits, nun has lather declined m puco, and whiskey pud geneva <uc quoted at lower l.vtes.. Of Imlk .ilc tlieic is a beltei supply, and TCdmbuigh in bottle bmigj about Us Ga\ pel dozen. Cigais are scaice, and Manillas have been sold foi £1 pei 1,000. Coflee is lowci, J.u.i not fetching moic than lid., and Ceylon Is. Id 01 bottled fiuits theicaie hoavy stocks, and the most that cm be got for them is los Gd. pei do7cn. Jamsaie unsaleable. Sydney soip is a tnfie less, and may be quoted at JH'6'2 per ton. Ofgioceues theic aie heavy stocks on hand, and sidiices of laige fmaulilics toaime. In soft goods theie is a full supply, but at a laige auction sale of them a fuw days ago good puces weie icaltscd The flour and giam liiatket is easier, and fine floui cm now be obtained leadily foi C2S i>ei ton. Wheat may be quoted at 9s , although that biouuht by the ' ForiC 1 -,' fiom Cctlifonna, wa-. sold foi only S». 6d. Puces, liowever, aio not to be depended upon as indicating the supply and dunand. The floui tiadc is in the hands ot few linns, who have laiae stocks either 111 stoic or on the way heie. Wo have heanl it stated that theie are now five months' supply of brcadbtnfls 111 the mai ket, but we have no means of testing the coiioctnes^ of this statement. Oonsideung the puces mlmy, m Ausliaha, liowever, X2S for best Adelaide Horn and ,C2G for Oaliforinan l.not imieasonablp, and the puce of biead is far highci in propoition. is a good deal of building going on at present, and although timber can be obtained at lo^ei puces, the scaicity of labour still exists. Good mtiliccii can miko tnio of capital wages lieic , and Li lcklayer-., masons, and caipoutor* aio 111 great demand. The new Bank of Auckland, whose operations are to bo confined to this piovmce, has been f.uily launched. At a meeting of the piopnefcois hold today, ducctors and auditor weio elected, and the mliolc of the ■■haies havmo been some time ago allotted, the bank will comntenoo business in about ten days.