MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, Daily Southern Cross Office, Wednesday evening

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3753, 29 July 1869, Page 4

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL, Daily Southern Cross Office, Wednesday evening

Customs leceipts :—£1,246: — £1,246 6s lid; light dues, 5a 7d ; arms fees, 16s ; bond, reut, £31 os ; port chargei, lla 2d. A meeting of oreditois in the estate of David Grant, of Mangatawhiri, is converted to take placd at the office of the Provincial Trustee in Bankruptcy, Supieine (Joint-house, at noon ou Tuesday, the 3rd proximo. Messrs. Knmuel C <chrane aud i Son sold at their rooms, th'sday, ex ' I'leanor,' ilour and oatmeal at the following juicos : -Oatmeal (slightly damaged), ] Jjd to l'j.l per ib, ; oatmeal (ranch damaged), 1 \d to lid ; s : flour (slightly damaged), £9 to £10 10s por ton ; flour (much damaged), £7 10s to £8 10<* per t<>n. The following propertiKS were also di->[) >->ed of, viz. : ■ — Pait of allotment No. 7 of sectii n No 21, 47 feeb fronti^o to Chapel street, running through to Jlobsou street, with all the buildings thereon erected, for £'297 or £6 5a per foot; sold by oruor of ]a O'lhien, li'sq , Registrar of the supreme Court. Two f air roomed jcottaues, Pompallier Terrace, near the Ponsonhy Koad, £110. The dwelling-house in Sheridan -street was poafcponed, and the allotments in John street were withdt&«?n — £28 being the highest offer. Mr. T. Tonka held a sale of groceries, tea, sugars, &2., at the Btorn of Mr. W. C. Hill, Fort-street. The following price* were realised : — Contjou tea, half-chests, Is lOi t) 2«; En^ltHh &ojtp, 24a; colonial soap, 2i^ ; pickles, 9a ; saLid oil, 8s ; B<xgo, 2Jd ; sauces, 6-i ; j una, 6i lOd ; mirnialade, 11s; twine, 9Jd: split peas, 2}d; tirtaric acid, la 9 1 ; pipes, 4s; diied apples, 2}d; large fireproof safe, &c, £23. At Mr. Sibbin'i auction sale the following are some of the prices obtained : — Oranges, 9d to lOd per doz-in ; potatoes, os 6d per cwt. ; maize, 4s 6d to 4a 9d per buahel; nee, 2d per lb. ; tea, 25s per box ; bacon, 9d per lb. ; hams, lOd par lb.; caudles, It ; butter, Is. The following is Mr. Vaile's report of his sale to-day :— Bo jt elastic, 3i 8d per yard; kerosine lamps, from Is 31 to 3* 31; machine twist silk, 48j per lb. Furniture not in demand.