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

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3960, 2 May 1870, Page 4

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

Customs Receipts To-day ; — Duties, 2Q61 11s 2d ; light dues, 6s Id ; M.S. fees, 16s 3d; M.S. fees, Onehunga, 2/ 4s ; arms fees, 2Z7s: O^ nub/, UOIO xw?o^. , r .l.' L o , 105 *' e _ Q T J poit charges, 4s Gd ; port charges, Onehunga, 91 53 Ocl. A failure was repented on Saturday. The amount of liabilities i& supposed to be aboub £28,000. A meeting of the Tocal creditors, who are said not to be interested to a large amount, as to be held in a day or two. Messrs. 0. Arthur and Son held a sale of seasonable diapeiy at their mart, Queen--jlreefc, on Friday. There was a good attendance, and the following prices were obtained : — Crimean shirts, 6s Id to 6s 4d ; mutation Saxony flannel, 10{d to lOJd ; Saxony scarlet flannel, Is 2d to Is 2id; pimt shii tings, Is ; wool tweed fancy shirtings, Is Id; regatta shirts, Id Sd ; tweed and flannel draweis, 3-b 3d ; hats, 2s to 3s 3d ; caps, 4s. Messrs. C. Arthur and Son repent the following prices realised at their sale to-day :—: — Fowls, 1 s 2d to 2=i 3d each ; Dorking fowls, 2s 9d each ; ducks, Is 2d to 2s 7d each ; turkeys, 2a Cd to 3s Id each; potatoes, 2s 9d to 3s per ewt ; onions, 1\ d to 2d jjer lb. ; cabbage plants, 4d per bundle ; strawberry plants, 2d per bundle; pears, L'.dperlb.; colonial bacon, did to S^d per lb. ; colonial hams, lOd ; cheese, 4d to 5d ; butter, lid; boxes tea, 21s: Hour, 12/. per ton. Mr. S. .Tones repoits the following prices obtained at his sale of produce, &c, to-day. — Barley, 4s ; maize, 4s Gd ; 01110219, Id ; potatoes, 3/. ; candles, 11 Id ; sugar, 4.kl to did.