MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND. Daily Southern Cross Office, Thursday Evening

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXI, Issue 2600, 17 November 1865, Page 4

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. AUCKLAND. Daily Southern Cross Office, Thursday Evening

The Customs lecoipts to day amounted to £075 33 Jd Messrs Arthur md. Son held a land -sale at their stoios, Queen street, yesterday, at which city, suburban, nnd country properties uete ofTcied The atteml.incc was small The first allotment offered was situate in Queen street, West Sew ton, H \ 100, and sold for £1 per foot Allotments in Frnuklyn street, Ireland street, Edwin-street, Pitt streot, nnd Shaddock street, w ere not sold An allotment in Sumnerst'eet, Tden Terriec, realised Jis per foot, nnd an allotment in Angleiea - street, ncai Hepburn - stieot, 32s per foot, being 33 \ ISI An allotment in Prattstreet, neai Wellington-sheet, sold for £1 per foot &i\ allotments at the corner of Cameron-sheet and Mount Smart Roid, Onehunga, containing an acre of land, were withdrawn at £100. An allotment In Elizabeth-street, Oneliunga, sold for 25s per foot , and another, in tho same street, /or £15 the allotment An allotment in Government Road, was withdrawn at 223 Cd , tho reserve being 30s , per foot. An Allotment at Drnry sold for 5s a foot , a quartorncre section at Rnglan, with a six-roomed houso thereon, was withdrawn at C lOO. The other properties offered w-ero not sold. Mr. John Roherton held a inle of groceries at his stores in Queen street, yesterday, and hud a fair attendance of buyers present Few sales, however, were effected, shopkeepers being only desirous of making purchases to meet current demands Tho result was only a small jetftll salo, at prices scarcely worth quoting Soap realised 3H od., currants, s]d , hams, 2m. 3d , bacon, sides, 7]d to SJil ; best, IOJd.; cheeks, ih\ to 4M Mr 11. Joseph held a sale of sundry articles of merchandise at his store in Queen-street yesterday, at which fair prices were realised Messrs Stichbuiy ami Son held a salo of jewellory, &c , at the roomi, Queen-street, yestorday , but little business was traniactcd, owing to the tightness in the money market at tho present time. A shipment of Hobart Town palings, posts and rails, and timber, c\ • Camilla,' was sold by Mr J. Eoberton yesterday, at the recant declino in prices.