MONETAEY AND COMMERCIAL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 2971, 1 February 1867, Page 4

MONETAEY AND COMMERCIAL.

Dailt Southern Caoss Office, Thursday evening. The Customs receipts to-day amounted to £493 128. sd. The receipt! for the month ended to-day amount to £11,628 10s. lid,, divided as follows :— Receipts, £10,178 13s. 6d.; light dues, £97 19s. sd. j fees under Arms Act, £8 Is. ; Merchant Shipping Act, £17 175.; gold duty, £26. Mr. L. W. Eaton sold a quantity of apples and onions to-day, at the stores of Messrs. Eaton and Devrolf, at l£d. per Ib.

HOBA.RT TOWN. The business doing to-day was scarcely so extensive, owing in some measure to the oppressive heat, and partly to the near approach of the arrival of the November -English mail. This latter remark will particularly apply to woo?, wbi"h generally assumes dulness just prior to the arrival of later English news. The ship ' Ethel,' with £40,000 worth ef woof, and about £9,000 worth of sperm oil, sailed at daylight thia morning. "There were no sales reported in wheat to-day, and very little was doing in flour. Prices are unaltered. There was a full supply of hay, which met a fair •ale at' £3 10«. to £4-55., according to quality. In dairy prod (ice there were no sales, and the tnwrsaotioift in potatoes-were email, at £s to £6, according to' samplft-u-J?o&cMtf.j Town Mercury, January 11. ( , v, The principal business doing again to-day was in Ifool. of which severa.l considerable lots were djs-

posed of at yesterday's rates. The steamship 'City of Hobnrt' left for vSydney in the afternoon, taking* ft peneral cargo, including some small shipments'of onions, apples, potatoes, and jam. In the grain mi'-bt nome ?ale* were effected in wheat »fc ss. #<!., and 2,000 bushels of Oalifornian, ex ♦June, from Melbourne, were purchased in one lot at sp. The sales in flour were limited at £11 10s. to £12. There wa» a good supply of Lay, which sold $t £B 10s. to £4 ss. The business^ in other produce wai very light, without alteration tin prerious quotations. — Ibid., January 10.