MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3019, 30 March 1867, Page 4

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

DiiLT Southxbx Cboss Office, Friday evening. The Ouitomi receipts to-day amounted to Business transactions daring the put week have been extremely apathetio, the commodities changing hands being intended only to meet existing pressing necessities, and 'cash payments being almost universally .expected. Owing to the arrival by the : English mail of advices of a depressing character ! relative to the saleable qualities of kauri gum, the prices previously ruling have experienced a reduction. Spirits and vines are heavy in stock, with little demand ; and the same may be said also of flour of the best kinds, though a decrease in price has been quoted for inferior flour offered during the week. Mesirs. Jones and Co. held a sale of oilmen's stores, &c, to-day, at their mart, Queen-street, and obtained the following prices : — No. 1 canvas, Is Id per yard j No. 2 canvas, Is Id per yard ; boiled oiJ, 4« 4d per gallon ; raw oil, 4a 5d per gallon • turpentine, 5s per gallon. Mr. L. W. Eaton sold to-day, at the stores of Messrs. Eaton and Pewolf, apples at from 2£d to Sid per lb. ;. grapes, ssd perlb. j pears, sid per lb. j quince*, 2d per lb. ; onions, Id per lb. Messrs. E. and H. Isaacs held » sale of groceries, Ac, to-day, at the stores of Messrs. Bucholz and Co., Fort-atreet, and obtained the following prices : Mauritius sugar (in bond), from B|d to 4Jd per lb. ; Company'! sugar, from 4£d to 4£d per lb. ; ale and porter, from 6s lOd to 7s lOd per gallon ; sardineß, from 5s 9d to 8s lOd per dozen ; a large quantity of spirits and groceries, duty-paid, were sold at fair average prices considering the glutted state of the market and the dulness of trade.