MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office, Thursday evening.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3319, 6 March 1868, Page 2

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. Daily Southern Cross Office, Thursday evening.

Mr. S. Jones held to-day an extensive sale of tea, sugar, rice, coffee, &c, ex • Waverley from China, by order of the importer!, Messrs. Cruickshank, Smart, and Co., at the Brunswick Buildings. The sale was tbe largeit that has been held in Auckland for a considerable time, and comprised 44 parcels of the best brands, which, hare been specially imported for the benefit of the Auckland market. As might have been expected the attendance was very large.aud the prices as a whole were good. The following are the quotations : — Lots 1 to 15, consisting of white crystals, brought from 4d 1-18 to 4Jd; lots 16, 17, and 18, yellow crystals, ranged from 3Jd to 3d 15-16, in bond ; lots 19 to 23, consisting of Indramayoe table rice, brought £29 5s per toD, duty paid ; lots 24 to 27, West India and Java coffee, in bond, fetched 9£d ; lot 28, black pepper, in bond, 4£d ; lot 29, white pepper, in bond, 12$ d; lot 30, nutmegs, Is 9jd j lots 32 to 35, chests congou, in bond, from Is 5d to Is lOd; lots 36 to 40, half, chests, in bond, from Is 5d to 2s 3d • lots 41 to 44, boxes congou, from Is 8d to 2« 3d per lb.; lot 31 comprised 150 rolls of white-and-red and white Chinese matting, and was sold at lid per yard.