MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office, UNKNOWN

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2204, 13 August 1864, Page 4

MONETARY AND CO MMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office, UNKNOWN

Pusiness Ins boon lemiikobly quiet dm Jus; the week, caused pi obably m some measiuc by the wet 01 uneei tain w e ithev that has picA Ailed. Inqun ics aio pimcipdly made for pio-wsions ofnccessaiy consumption, foi which 'almost as gnoil puces aic obt x>ilod at auction as by puvftte sale The funi of R ittiay and Matheson, who sus pended payment some tune ago, but wcie allowed to e.uiy on their business under inspection, have obtained the pi oteetion of the oouit. It appens that some of tho cieditoib declined to come in undei the anangonient made, '\lnch ib the alleged cause of the lam Jiliug then schedule. Fiotn it, it would appeal tli.ifc the deiits .ue f.u moift c.\l.ensivc and the a--scta i>vi le&s in piopoition to what thej- wcie supposed to lie, and wliaO tlioy ucic stated to bo at the meeting cf cialvfccns The h ibiltttes .u c i? 20,542 Is Id , and tho assets £'), 1153 10< Id Tlio net leceipts willpiobablj Le fioni 5s to 7s Gd in the pound. Ti.is i & tht, fn^t faib.uo t>f any moment that his tiUen pl.n.e u\ Auckhuul foi a long penod, and it miy bs attubnted to other causes than those which aftect the pio-pcuty of the iiiOMiice Tho a u\al ot the ' A.aicis>lwim ' fiom England since oi.i la"-t lepoib wa^ wutten, ha^, stJl fiufchei lucieaseil oui - stocks ol goods, and thcuo la no se-ueity of jnythinq to lepoit Cunis iie ficcly en i|Hiie,l 101, but pmchaoCib decline to pi\ the advanced puce Floiu still lcnuins at £30 pei ton. stocks .no coiisideiablj lcduced,