COMMERCIAL

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2237, 21 September 1864, Page 3

COMMERCIAL

The exports fur Melbourne amount to £158,627; decroue, £51,550. Exports for Adelaide, £95,268 ; increase, £13,011., Exports for Sydney, £235,371; decrease, £39,092.

„ In tjie City,- money i» at-8-per cent. Bank, discount has been raised to 7 per cent. Three per- cent, consols, 90 ; for account, 9QJ- to 90£.

Wool/.— The third most important sale of the year commenced on the 21st. The arris ills comprised the unprecedented quantity of 144,020 bales. The attendance ,of home and foreign buyers was good, .and the biddings were animated. Price* aboitt theaverage of last sales. SpißiTS.—Jßuni good ; business at steady pi'ices. Rice, dull. Good soft kinds stt lower rates. White Bengal, scarce and firm. Photisioss. — Irish butter ia good' de-* mand. Prices, 4d. to Gd. higher. Poreign\ dearer, but selling well. Irish bacou, good request American bacou, more demanded. American hams rather dearer. Coitee. — Native Ceylon, lower and selling slowly. Plantation, good xales at former prices Mocha, quiet. Sugaii — The market has been exceedingly dull throughout the month, owing to large foreign arm als ; prices fully 1»., and in some cases, la. Gel. to 2s lower, both on the spot and for floating slock, which is 10,000 tons less than last year. CoLOXIA.IV GrOYEIuritEXT SfiCURITIES. — New Zealand Government, 5 per cent, debentures for £1,000,000 ha\e been offered to public competition by the agent of the colony, but a -\ory small portion of the amount was ax>plied for. The minimum a\ as fixed at 90, which is equal to £5 lls. Id. per cent., at which price the agents declared their willingness to receive tenders for the unallotted portion.